If your funds are gone
An honest page. What is worth doing immediately, what recovery actually looks like, and why the person offering to help you is the next problem.
Sorted by the date each page was last checked, not by the date it was written.
An honest page. What is worth doing immediately, what recovery actually looks like, and why the person offering to help you is the next problem.
It looks like a game, it pays out at first, and the arithmetic underneath has only one ending. Here is how to see it on day one.
You never sent anything, and the wallet emptied anyway. This is what the approval you signed actually permitted.
It is not sophisticated and it does not need to be. Somebody answers your question, and by the end of the conversation your wallet is empty.
Why the same transfer costs cents on one network and twelve dollars on another, and why "pending" usually means one of three things.
Twelve words that are worth exactly as much as everything they control. What they actually are, and where they should live.
About an hour, roughly ten dollars, and six steps. The buying is the easy half; the part most people skip is the part that matters.
The same token exists on several networks, the addresses look alike, and choosing the wrong one is the most common way beginners lose funds.
Bitcoin, USDT and a token launched last Tuesday are not the same category of thing. The difference is who, if anyone, issues them.
A shared ledger, a key that proves something on it is yours, and nobody to call if you lose that key. Everything else is detail.
Bank transfers, P2P escrow and local rails — with the verification each route requires.
Why the seed is generated on the device, and what a hardware wallet does not protect you from.
Liquidity, insider allocations and the exact moment a chart is designed to break.
No app store, no review, no publisher check — and what that means before you tap.