A Web3 developer recently shared a cautionary tale of losing funds due to accidentally exposing his wallet keys on the developer platform GitHub.
Brian Guan, the co-founder of the Web3 streaming app Unlonely, took to X on June 5 to reveal that he lost $40,000 after making a repository on GitHub public without realizing that his secret keys were included.
When asked by a community member how long it took for the funds to be taken, Guan revealed that it only took two minutes for someone to withdraw the money.
Despite efforts to reach out to Guan for comments, Cointelegraph has not received a response.
The news of Guan’s mishap stirred up mixed reactions within the crypto community. Some showed sympathy and offered support, while others dug up past comments made by Guan regarding developers utilizing OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, to write code.
In a previous post in 2023, Guan had criticized projects that paid smart contract engineers $200,000, stating that those projects were “ngmi” or “not gonna make it.” He suggested that developers should be able to write solidity with the assistance of ChatGPT.
One community member empathized with Guan’s situation and hoped for his recovery, while others were less forgiving. Some even labeled Guan’s opinions as indicative of “Gen Z entitlement.”
In a humorous turn of events, a user named Foobar created a parody of Guan’s previous post, suggesting that paying $200 for a hardware wallet meant failure and that developers should rely on ChatGPT to store private keys on GitHub.
On a different note, a memecoin called Turbo, coded using ChatGPT by digital artist Rhett Mankind in April 2023, experienced a surge in prices on May 28, reaching a market capitalization exceeding $600 million. This success highlighted the potential of using ChatGPT for coding, despite the controversy surrounding it.
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