New Here.... My Coldcard got caught in the mess.

[Pakistani Shaheen]

I'd rather not share the exact amount for privacy and security reasons, but it was basically my entire savings, so it was a huge blow to me.

I didn't ask you to share your wallet address or the transaction ID of your funds leaving your wallet. There is no privacy or security risk in posting how much in bitcoin you lost to this hack.

On the bright side, this whole situation made me realize that I should definitely split my holdings across multiple wallets moving forward.

This is not something that someone who just lost a huge amount of money (their entire savings) would normally say.

I did not mean privacy reasons with respect to wallet address or transaction ID. I did not feel like posting an exact number on a public forum. I will agree, maybe I used the wrong words.

As to the "bright side" thing, I know how that sounds. But, when something bad happens to me I try to find something good in it or I will just go crazy thinking about it. I just do that in my mind. It was not that I was happy about losing money, it was that I did not want to completely lose my mind.

I am not here to show anything to anyone. I shared my experience with them. If someone does not believe me, it is okay, I cannot force anyone. But I know what did happen to me.

[Coyster]

I did not mean privacy reasons with respect to wallet address or transaction ID. I did not feel like posting an exact number on a public forum. I will agree, maybe I used the wrong words.

It was you who posted your personal experience about this hack on bitcointalk, which is a public forum. Don't you think that if you wanted to keep it all private like you claim, you wouldn't even bother posting about it here.

I am not here to show anything to anyone.

Of course you aren't. You are well within your rights to determine what you want to reveal or not. That said, i just think your story is made-up, but since i do not have a magic mirror to reveal things to me, i could as well be completely wrong.

[Pakistani Shaheen]

I did not mean privacy reasons with respect to wallet address or transaction ID. I did not feel like posting an exact number on a public forum. I will agree, maybe I used the wrong words.

It was you who posted your personal experience about this hack on bitcointalk, which is a public forum. Don't you think that if you wanted to keep it all private like you claim, you wouldn't even bother posting about it here.

I am not here to show anything to anyone.

Of course you aren't. You are well within your rights to determine what you want to reveal or not. That said, i just think your story is made-up, but since i do not have a magic mirror to reveal things to me, i could as well be completely wrong.

I believe you are missing the point, as to why the post was made in the first place.

I am not here to explain all the money. So I wanted to come here, move on and think a little into how things should work. It is that which my posting was about. 2) If I had the desire to write a fake story and wanted people to take me seriously, I would write all of the little details that would make it more believable.

I have seen enough stories in the press of people getting into trouble for showing how much money they have. So no, I will not give out exact numbers and I do not believe it is unfair. The whole "asking" thing would make me wonder what the real interest is here since it is being asked for.

I am confused anyway. But, I made one and I can make more. I am not looking back, I am looking forward. This was all I wanted, from this thread.

I want to ask everyone here openly: is my post intentionally seeking sympathy? I only asked about wallets, which I don't think is wrong. If it is wrong, please tell me and I will share all the details here. However, I still don't think that is compulsory.