Topic: Over-Speeding Kills, Always Slow Down When Driving A Car - page 2. (Read 290 times)

So many errors were made during this transaction that it would have been a miracle if he had pulled it off successfully.

• Firstly, the risk of driving and using your phone exposes the user to lots of potential harm and already creates a huge distraction that could affect how well your friend could complete the transaction.

• Then the idea of storing addresses into your keyboard is high risk as one could suffer keyboard hijacking.
And it doesn't make sense to save multiple addresses when you can easily get them from the wallet you intend sending to,

• Lastly, relying on memory to chose an address to send to is totally wrong and the risk of error is high.

That's a quite costly lesson on not getting to complacent when handling finances, especially one you have full control and responsibility on.

This is really bad, but how will you even get confortable making a transaction on the road. Using my phone while driving is totally bad to me talk more of making transaction, well the lesson has been learnt and correction will also be taken

People are so careless that it is sometimes hard to believe when they tell what is happening to them - and this case definitely shows how someone can easily lose their money. I had one case where I sent payments for a certain service for months, and eventually the guy realized he gave me a BTC address that wasn’t his at all, and he also had no idea how he got to that address at all

I personally would survive $800 that went into the unknown, but for someone it can be really big money so always check each coin address at least a few times before you press the send button.

At least your friend is safe and didn't hitting a tree or power pole even he must be panic since he didn't received his coins yet.

$800 is big for me, if I were your friend, I will send around $5 first to see if I send to correct address. I'd rather to choose loss $1 rather than loss the whole $800 because of my greediness, this same like many people tend to lend their money on centralized site than holding on his own wallet.

I will admit the fact that when been engaged doing something and have a transaction to make, one should be very careful not to make a mistake by going through the second time to confirm if all errors were totally avoided, it's truly costly when a mistake happens and its irreversible, then why in rush to make a costly mistake, also we should not develop an overconfidence mind, this is the faulty act most user do without confirming what they were about to initiate, as not all actions are reversible.

I don't know  if that's really the outcome if someone transacting while driving, anyways maybe greed and carelessness made this story. But this kind of mistake did not happen if the guy who transacted while driving is careful as you said OP that he simply copy and paste the address without knowing that he already made a mistake, must better if he check his binance account to prevent such mistake and the lesson learn here is that  don't be greed and be careful always. It's better slowly while secure than fast but mistake.

As if using your phone while driving isn't bad enough, our dude here was actually doing a crypto transaction while driving lmao. Carelessness is through the roof.

I know you must be wondering what has a Car, over-speeding and slowing down got to do or doing in this section of a crypto currency forum.
What i actually meant to say was "Dont always be in a haste when making crypto transactions, always look for somewhere quiet and calm, that will allow you focus, so as not to end up making a costly mistake, if you are driving and the transaction cannot wait until you get to your destination, then look for somewhere safe to park and do you transaction, after the transaction, you can then continue your journey.

Below Is The Main Subject Of This Discussion.


A few hours ago, a friend(one of my crypto buddies) reached out to me on the phone calling for help, read conversation below.

[my phone ringing and i answered the call]
FREIND: hey five, xup?

ME: hey bro, whats up man?

FREIND: something happened, and i think i really need your help.

ME: what happened?

FREIND: i bought 15 litecoin from Remitano exchange this morning, but something really urgent came up and i had to travel to PH, so while i was driving, i decided to transfer the 15 litecoin to my Binance account, i thought i recognized my Binance litecoin address among the several addresses i pinned on my clipboard on my swiftkey keyboard, so i didnt bother to log into my Binance account to copy the address afresh in order for me to save time and also to concentrate more on the road.  

ME: oookeey, am listening.

FREIND: so I withdraw my 15 litecoin from Remitano to an address I thought was my Binance litecoin address, the transaction status on Remitano showed they've sent it but for over 30 minutes after i managed to login, I didn't get the coin on my Binance account, I became worried and had to park to find out what's going on, then I discovered I actually withdraw the coins to a Bitcoin address, and....

[i cut in]
ME: Jesus!_{i exclaimed}, and what?

FREIND: and the worst of it all is that the Bitcoin address i sent the coins to does not belong to me, the address....

[i cut in again]
ME: you are joking right?

FREIND: i am not joking, i am freaking out here, i cant even drive anymore..

ME: who then is the owner of the Bitcoin address you sent your litecoins to ?

FREIND: i honestly dont know, i i...

[i cut in]
ME: what!?_{i exclaimed}, how then did the address got pinned on your copy and paste clipboard?

FREIND: i don't know, honestly, i guess it belongs to a person or an exchange i sent bitcoin to in the past, i don't know which exactly, am so confused right now, i dont know what to do.

ME:[confused], why did you pin an address you dont know who it belongs to on your copy and paste clipboard in the first place ?

FREIND: bro, i always delete them, it just happened i forgot to delete this one.

ME: honestly, i dont know what to say, am as confused as you right now, how do you possibly think i could be of help to you in this kind of issue? i honestly think your money is gone...

Conversation continued, but the important part is the above.

This is a true life story, i didnt make any part of that conversation up , I really hope we all learn, most especially newbies, crypto currency transactions are not the kind of transaction one does in a hurry or while driving or while busy with other things, crypto transactions require full focus and 100 percent attention to details , to avoid  being a victim to this kind of occurrence, this is probably the first of this kind of story as ive never heard this kind before.