Mr Beast’s house robbed of everything except for bitcoin

[ChiBitCTy]

Some of you may have seen this clip before, and I’m assuming a good amount of you know who Mr Beast is (if not he’s a highly followed social media “influencer” I guess you could say, but an actually cool/good guy who gives back a lot to people).

Here he talks about how his house was robbed, but the idiot robber just passed by his Pc which had a piece of paper sitting next to it that said “public and private keys” right on it lol. He laughs at what morons they were. Reminds me of the time my car was robbed of about $10 in change but they left my $600 radar detector and $2000 dvd player just sitting there lol.

Lesson here, not all robbers are this stupid, hide your keys!

https://youtube.com/shorts/rtDFx-U2IJU?feature=share

[Nwada001]

Lol, this is actually what happened to unsmart thief's; they were focused on the physical cash, not knowing they could have gained more from just stealing the laptop, or even having an idea of what crypto currency is, and that private key is just like someone's bank access. They could have gone for it and even asked for system access to help them move out the coin before even leaving the house.

This is really funny, but Mr. Beast making this public could actually draw more attention to him, like people could actually target him for real this time knowing that he is a crypto holder and how he makes mockery of the robbers who chose to steal a few bucks over a crypto private key, which could have given them thousands.

[SatoPrincess]

Some of you may have seen this clip before, and I’m assuming a good amount of you know who Mr Beast is (if not he’s a highly followed social media “influencer” I guess you could say, but an actually cool guy who gives back a lot to people.

Here he talks about how his house was robbed, but the idiot robber just passed by his Pc which had a piece of paper sitting next to it that said “public and private keys” right on it lol. He laughs at what morons they were. Reminds me of the time my car was robbed of about $10 in change but they left my $600 radar detector and $2000 dvd player just sitting there lol.

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

https://youtube.com/shorts/rtDFx-U2IJU?feature=share

I have seen this clip before on Instagram and I remember Mr Beast was very grateful that the robbers didn’t pay any attention to his seed phrase because all the money he had at that point was those bitcoins. This was years ag ago when bitcoin was not as popular as it is now, I’m sure robbers wouldn’t make that kind of mistake again It’s a very stupid way to store one’s seed phrase, I believe he said he stored his seed phrase on his desktop screen not a piece of paper.

[sheenshane]

Lol.  I can't imagine how the robber feels knowing he almost got a million dollars, it might be the robber, not just a fast hand as the victim had and transferred all his Bitcoin into another wallet.

Unfortunately, the robber has no knowledge about private keys but I think the time will come Bitcoin becomes popular and well-known all people will know how Bitcoin will work including robbers, and there will be no moron robbers at all.

This is a lesson to learn, never save or store your private on your laptop or anywhere else that is obviously easy to steal.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

This is a lesson to learn, never save or store your private on your laptop or anywhere else that is obviously easy to steal.

I'm not exactly sure that's the takeaway message from what happened to Mr. Beast.  Maybe if the robber had actually noticed and stolen that bitcoin it would, but this is like the opposite of that.

That's not to say that if you own bitcoin you should keep everything locked up tight as if you had stacks of cash in your home--you absolutely should, but the lesson I learned from this is that the typical home-robbery perpetrator is still most likely looking for physical valuables like cash, gold, etc.

I'm not all that familiar with Mr. Beast, but these big Youtube personalities, man....they'd better step up their home security, because I imagine a lot of outlaws know they're pretty rich and thus are, or will, become the target of break-ins just like this one.

[mk4]

Even though even today not everyone knows how non-custodial Bitcoin backups work, I assume this was years and years ago (probably pre-2017 bull market) when Bitcoin wasn't that much of a household name yet.

[Sarah Azhari]

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

I read Pierce news also the robber tried to rob a crypto millionaire in Norway 4 years ago. This means the robber is very understanding of the crypto. Maybe today, the robber is not looking for the goods and a pile of money again in your house, but a small thing like a flash disk, hardware wallet, or laminating paper where a robber is very sure if that inscription is 12/24 mnemonic seed or private key.

Maybe better from today, we have to hide our crypto in different ways, maybe we can tuck it in an unexpected place like a wall hole, electrical switch location, or in floor tiles (just for example) where the robber didn't expect it. It's up to you, If you feel you have an unexpected place in your house and are safe, you have to try it but be very sure that place is safe from anything like flood, fire, and humans.

https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-millionaire-escaped-armed-robber-looking-to-drain-his-cryptocurrency-wallets/

[Ndabagi01]

The robber was not intelligent enough, and most people have a dull mind to have never heard of bitcoin or anything linked to it. They referred to the robber as a fucking moron in the YouTube video clip since he was foolish and never imagined what a private key implies, even though he wanted to access it through the laptop he took.

It was a good idea that he kept the private keys somewhere else than his laptop, which is never a good idea. The video clip has simply taught thieves more about what a private key is and how to use one if they stumble across one or want to breach someone who holds a bitcoin savings account. He should be more cautious the next time because the robbers will be smarter than before after seeing this video footage.

[Fiatless]

Here he talks about how his house was robbed, but the idiot robber just passed by his Pc which had a piece of paper sitting next to it that said “public and private keys” right on it lol. He laughs at what morons they were. Reminds me of the time my car was robbed of about $10 in change but they left my $600 radar detector and $2000 dvd player just sitting there lol.

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

There is a saying in my region that day's that "what you don't know is bigger than you. These criminals acted out of ignorance because they know nothing about Bitcoin. If knew about Bitcoin, they wouldn't have stolen any thing except those keys. This story reminds us of our most important responsibility as bitcoiners, which is how to secure our keys. I have never seen any conventional bank manager keeping the keys to the bank's vault on the table, they ensure it is always safe.

The story also informs us that many people are still not aware of the currency called Bitcoin. Therefore we need to increase Bitcoin awareness through diverse means that are convenient to use. More people need to be aware of this currency which can promote privacy and can also be a good investment scheme.

[Darker45]

This incident is funny. A funny robber who was laughed at by the owner himself because he's a moron for missing the private keys to millions in Bitcoin. But there's also the funny owner who wrote down his private keys on a piece of paper and openly display it for everyone to see. This is amusing. This is a classic story of the pot calling the kettle black. LOL!

Anyway, there are precious lessons here, both for the robber and for Mr. Beast. And for everybody else, especially those who are not as rich as Mr. Beast, there's a reason why it's called private keys.

[Bazzu]

with the incident that happened to Mr. Beast, it makes me think that we have to be more careful because it could be that thieves already know about bitcoin and so on. so we have to be more careful,
because bitcoin is a very valuable asset, hopefully the incident that happened to the Mr.Beast makes us more vigilant.

so we have to secure our assets to the maximum.

[noorman0]

Mr Beast has less understanding about security and it is very ironic that he becomes an influencer (I hope he is not a crypto influencer). Just imagining when he misguided followers with poor security methods. And now that the public knows that he has even more wealth stored in his laptop, it may just fuel another crime. At the same time accidentally making the public laugh at him (Mr Beast).

[Strongkored]

Because usually, thieves will look for physical items that can be easily turned into cash immediately, Bitcoin can be used as cash but maybe thieves already understand how it works and that it can be tracked so it will actually be dangerous for them so they only choose items whose whereabouts cannot be traced anymore, or the thief was in a hurry so he didn't check every item in Mr.'s Beast house which has the potential to make him filthy rich, and I'm thinking Mr. Beast was just lucky at that time because maybe there will be another thief who is already after his Bitcoin so he will only look for the Private Key stored in the house, this story is indeed funny but if it were the other way around then Mr. Beast will not be able to laugh at him.

[ImThour]

I remember watching this video. It's like asking a 90-year-old nanny to go steal a hidden file from your personal desktop without any password on it.
The one who doesn't know about Bitcoin would never be able to steal it. So, one should not just right away his private key like this and wait for it to be stolen.
He was just lucky that not the educated robber robbed him.

[takuma sato]

Well the robbers now know he not only owns bitcoin but he self-custodies them (not on some exchange that could be transfered) so that's making yourself a target to get attacked again eventually. Another huge streamer called xQc said he self-custodies his BTC. These people shouldn't even disclose any of that if they were smart. I hope they have invested in tons of private security.

[tread93]

Some of you may have seen this clip before, and I’m assuming a good amount of you know who Mr Beast is (if not he’s a highly followed social media “influencer” I guess you could say, but an actually cool guy who gives back a lot to people.

Here he talks about how his house was robbed, but the idiot robber just passed by his Pc which had a piece of paper sitting next to it that said “public and private keys” right on it lol. He laughs at what morons they were. Reminds me of the time my car was robbed of about $10 in change but they left my $600 radar detector and $2000 dvd player just sitting there lol.

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

https://youtube.com/shorts/rtDFx-U2IJU?feature=share

Mr. Beast is a very generous guy, but also, maybe this was just a stunt. Are we be completely sure that this wasn't staged just to draw attention? If there is a police record that would suffice as being legitimate. But maybe he is too rich to even care, one thing is for sure that Mr. Beast would definitely not leave his Bitcoin PKs out on the table in broad daylight next to his computer. Maybe there is some hidden symbolism in his videos? It might help if I actually watch it lmao. Good post m8!

[michellee]

There are still robbers who do not know that things are more valuable than all they have robbed. It really happened and even you have experienced it.

He was still lucky that his mugger didn't take the piece of paper because I don't think he knew what the public and private keys were, so he left it. Had he known it was a safe containing valuable assets, he would have taken them and probably left other items behind.

The lesson from this story is that we must be more careful about storing our public and private keys to prevent theft at home. Other than that, stash those valuables elsewhere. And if necessary, rent a deposit box at the bank to make sure everything is safe.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

Well, I won't call him stupid, but publicly laughing at someone who has broken into your house and robbed you doesn't seem very smart to me.

I remember watching this video. It's like asking a 90-year-old nanny to go steal a hidden file from your personal desktop without any password on it.
The one who doesn't know about Bitcoin would never be able to steal it. So, one should not just right away his private key like this and wait for it to be stolen.
He was just lucky that not the educated robber robbed him.

Here's the thing, if they were crypto-thieves, that they were looking for that would be one thing, but they look like typical thieves looking for cash or gold and don't know much about bitcoin, hence the botched job. The bad news is that these things are going to become less frequent over time, and little by little thieves are going to know more and more about bitcoin.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Some of you may have seen this clip before, and I’m assuming a good amount of you know who Mr Beast is (if not he’s a highly followed social media “influencer” I guess you could say, but an actually cool guy who gives back a lot to people.

Being an influencer means you are a public figure and will be known as a Bitcoin investors by many people. You are at their greedy radar.

Here he talks about how his house was robbed, but the idiot robber just passed by his Pc which had a piece of paper sitting next to it that said “public and private keys” right on it lol. He laughs at what morons they were. Reminds me of the time my car was robbed of about $10 in change but they left my $600 radar detector and $2000 dvd player just sitting there lol.

He saved his keys carelessly and unsafely like this lad.
my mom did a general cleaning on my room and when she's done, I saw the recovery phrase of my Trezor hardware wallet on the garbage can which I placed on my computer table
Those guys were lucky but if you do the same, you will maybe not be lucky like them.

Lesson here, not all robbers are there stupid, hide your keys!

https://youtube.com/shorts/rtDFx-U2IJU?feature=share

Bigger lesson, hide that you are Bitcoin investor. Not all people are kind and some can become robbers if they know you are a Bitcoin investor.

[Wexnident]

I reckon it wasn't even noticed because it was blatantly in the open. Maybe if it was part of a safe of important documents then the thief might've just stolen it along with the rest of the stuff inside as an add on.

It was funny when I first listened to it though. Probably not to people who don't know what the hell he was talking about.

Here's the thing, if they were crypto-thieves, that they were looking for that would be one thing, but they look like typical thieves looking for cash or gold and don't know much about bitcoin, hence the botched job.

To be fair, I'd categorize crypto thieves as the one doing the stealing online instead. Kinda like that kid who spent money on women which lead him to being arrested.