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We should not be too harsh with people who inadvertently post their secret key. They may be very nice, well-meaning, smart people who, you know, make a mistake and post their key. Maybe it is in an environment file, and they post it to their public github. Could happen. Maybe they forgot and went to sleep, and found out their key got jacked. Maybe -- hypothetical here -- someone ran up $1000s of dollars producing bitcoins on this innocent person's account who made one mistake. One tiny mistake. You never know.



Not sure you are talking to me, but my comment wasn't harsh at all. Just trying to make sure he noticed and fixed it in case it was his real key.


No, I was talking about a "friend" of mine who got himself in trouble.




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