So I bought over 100k of MAID over 2 years ago and put it in Omni and hadn’t really touched it.
(The MAID address is below, and you can view it at this OmniWallet link)
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I know I’m probably screwed here, but I really believed in your project from the beginning and my coin value doubled from the time I bought it, so I’m really sad and it was most of my savings poured in there.
Was just wondering if anyone can help, offer advice, or just tell me if I’m completely screwed
thanks you guys
*EDIT: REMOVED SOME IDENTIFYING INFO BECAUSE I FOUND MY PRIVATE KEY AND THINK I STILL HAVE THE MAID IN THAT ADDRESS, AND THE HACKER JUST TOOK THE BTC WITHOUT REALIZING THE AMOUNT OF MAIDSAFECOIN INSIDE!! SO I DON"T WANT HIM TO IDENTIFY THIS AND COME BACK AND TAKE THE MAID FROM THE BTC ADDRESS
Uhhh not really sure how to respond bruv. I feel for you.
That sounds bad.
Cant you check with Omni when last login was and from which IP. Changing a password does seem pretty easy on omniwallet though.
WARNING to all newcomers - NEVER, EVER, EVER HOLD COINS IN ONLINE WALLETS! The most secure way is always a paper wallet (never keep it on you in case you lose your wallet) keep your paper wallet in a safe place, safe from fire, theft etc.
And definitely never use public wi-fi or enable blue tooth in public.
For now I would go to the store and have 911 on speed dial. Just go and ask some questions, tell them what happened but dont give too much information, see what they know. Could of been an employee of the store or a frequent customer. Make sure you suss everyone out. Maybe just hang for a while and build a profile on everyone. Maybe even start by asking if they except any crypto currency and see if any of the employees are interested in the topic or if any of the customers ears perk up. I know it sounds crazy but you never know bro. If you think you got your man, keep an eye on him and call the cops.
I want to reinvest, and I’m learning how to use Bitaddress and am making lots of practice cold storage / paper wallets to learn the process 100% before I buy some more.
I dunno man… I wouldnt give up so easily without at the very least checking that star bucks out… someone has committed a crime and stolen from you dude at the very least report it to the store.
Backups don’t help if it’s been moved. Once you put a backup wallet online, the wallet will update to the latest blockchain data and the coins will still be gone.
i don’t wanna run around all day every day chasing some random guy (and if he has any intelligence at all he won’t be hanging around the scene of the crime browsing his stolen coins in broad daylight) I’m definitely not trying to shoot you down for trying to help me, but I guess I was looking for a way for OmniWallet to help me recover them or something, idk.
If I didn’t misunderstand what OP was saying the hacker only moved the bitcoins from his omniwallet to another address, but the maidsafecoins not.
As long as OP still has a backup of the wallet keys where his MAID is kept he only needs to import them again in another omniwallet account, send the equivalent of a transaction fee worth of BTC to that compromised address and quickly transfer the maidsafecoins out.
so far as I understand, omni uses the bitcoin blockchain to store maidsafecoins by grafitti-ing some particular bitcoin space with the data indicating how many maidsafecoin you have. if those bitcoins are moved from your wallet to another wallet, then you no longer have access to those maidsafecoins. I am happy to be corrected if I am wrong about how this works.
I am not aware of this graffiti process but I don’t think it works like that.
As long as you have the private key of the Bitcoin address where the MAID is stored you should be able to withdraw it, given there’s the min BTC transaction fee in that address as well
Do you have your private key written down/stored anywhere?
If the MAID is still there then If you do have the private keys then try and import the private key into another wallet and send a little BTC to it and try and withdraw your MAID. Try the withdraw as soon as the little BTC arrives (need about .0004 BTC), before the thieves notice and w/d that BTC too
Okay, so here’s my new hypothesis (as I’ve been unable to find specific details via google). the graffiti is written in a transaction and each transaction is recorded onto the bitcoin blockchain which lists the wallet address.
So, if the maidsafecoins are not moved via the omni-protocol then they remain attached to the wallet regardless of what happens to the bitcoins in the wallet.
However, if they are moved via the omni-protocol to a different wallet, then they are under the control of a separate private key and no longer accessible with the previous wallet’s key.
The OP here seems to indicate that his omni account was hacked and that the hacker moved his maidsafecoins via the omniwallet. So they no longer have access to the maidsafecoins regardless of any wallet backup as omni will look at the most recent transaction containing the maidsafecoins and the wallet that has those coins is the owner.
EDIT: I am wrong that the coins were moved from his wallet, they are still in there given the OP address listed … so I suppose sfcoin is correct and that a backup could be used to recover … at least until the coins are moved by the hacker …