Reminder: there's also plenty of people who have lost huge amounts of crypto to *loss* rather than theft.

Software bug, forgotten password, lost device, paper wallet burned down in LA fire, upgraded device without backing up data .... lots of ways for that to happen.

Because there's no attacker to go after, victims don't have a strong need to talk about it. And often because they see no one to blame but themselves, victims will be too ashamed to talk about it.

But it happens. Often. And the truly robust wallet security solutions that our ecosystem needs to build should take loss into account too.

(This is a big part of why I talk about social recovery so much!)

i once sent 18k usd to a wallet that was not mine

and that's a lot to me. it was brutal. i felt a huge hole inside me. but also a need to recover as fast as possible from it because there was nothing else to do more than learn to be extremely careful about way i interact with my wallet