Bitcoin Jimmy has been in Bitcoin for many years, but he has sadly not devoted enough time to learn the basics to keep his money safe. He even confirmed that he was using a Coldcard Q coupled with Sparrow Wallet on his desktop. Still, he believed importing his seed into a hot wallet (genuine or not) and destroying his cold storage in the process was a good idea.
This unfortunate incident could easily have been prevented. What could Bitcoin Jimmy have done better, and what can you do to protect yourself?
Seriously this one of the major reasons why I still think this Forum needs to be preserved for long and for every newbie that started there bitcoin join through seeking knowledge through this forum have a very good knowledge edge than those outside if they seriously seek the knowledge here.
This same scam wallet on Apple Store was actually warned to be fake by
Cygan early February and now some is losing such an amount of bitcoin on such wallet. It has always been key to seek knowledge first before investing as security is paramount to your saving. Just like Jimmy there have been others like him who seriously do not pay attention to security and seek proper knowledge that’s why he still falls into multiple scams.
What Jimmy would have done more is downloading the wallet from official website rather than an Apple student and then verify gpg signature of the wallet to authenticate it