Ukrainian escapes war with USB stick holding 40% of his life savings in crypto

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A few questions:

1. Why couldn't he withdraw cash once he was outside the warzone?

2. How is someone moving a mere $2000 across the border news?

Propaganda

Now 10%

Hahaha that's too funny.

Much easier to carry then gold...

Article says $2000 USD in bitcoin. That's currently 31 gram in gold (62.52 USD per gram, 1944.57 USD per ounce). Actually easy to carry. Harder to sell, split etc of course.

I email/matrix myself GPG encrypted files of my wallets so I don't even need to carry them... so definitely easier to carry.

…but where do you store that key?

assuming the Internet doesn't go down, I store it online, encrypted, in the public view... I can send you my wallet, if you want (the key to it is in my mind)

Easy to carry in terms of weight, not easy to carry through a warzone where a malicious actor would more easily recognise its value

Not quite sure what your saying, other than nothing is easy to carry through a warzone. How would anyone even know you have your Bitcoin private key hidden on a USB stick?

> How would anyone even know you have your Bitcoin private key hidden on a USB stick?

I think he's talking about the gold... much harder to hide...

Christopher Walken got a gold watch out of a prison camp.

I think the real feat is escaping Ukraine as a male. That is a story

Felony, not to mention a potential treason.

Not sure if that was intended as judgement but you can’t really blame a guy for not jumping into a meat grinder. Honestly I think it’s an interesting story about how he got past the people trying to kill him.

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