I lost $35K in one night

A developer built their first crypto app and celebrated its launch, then lost $35,000 in one night to hackers. They describe the embarrassment and self-loathing that followed the theft.
I build my first little crypto app. I launch it. I'm like, so proud because there was almost no education material on it back then. You really had to, like, dig in and figure a lot of it out yourself. But, like, I did it. I got the first app out there. I'm feeling awesome. I go to dinner with my wife to celebrate. I come back home, and there are all of these new transactions in my wallet that I didn't authorize. And then I go look at where I had deposited crypto in other places, and that it's literally disappearing as I'm watching. And basically in that night, between, like, going to dinner, coming back, and then watching this hacker take my money, I lost about $35,000, which was way more than I had made since I started. And it was like the first thing that I had built that, that night, seeing all of that money leave my account and, you know, having to tell my wife that and, you know, just the sort of like the self loathing and the embarrassment, that was not, not a high point.
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