This happened in May 2021. For years, I believed something had gone wrong during a Bitcoin-to-Monero exchange. Only now, after investigating Cake Wallet’s historical source code, analysing the blockchain transaction and checking independent vulnerability research, have I finally discovered what really happened.
On 24 May 2021, 0.02 BTC was stolen from my Cake Wallet immediately after it arrived. Cake later promised compensation, but never paid.
The evidence now leaves almost no room for doubt: Cake generated my 12-word Bitcoin seed using a catastrophically weak random-number generator. Someone reconstructed my private key, monitored my wallet and swept the deposit.
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