2025-12-04 17:30:38

Picture this: You casually drop your wallet address to a buddy for some quick transfer. No big deal, right?

Months pass. That same address? You've been using it everywhere—funding your trading account, paying for stuff, moving money around. Completely forgot anyone's watching.

Now that friend has a front-row seat to your entire financial playbook. Every trade. Every transaction. Every move.

Totally fine situation, obviously.

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BearMarketNoodler

· 12-04 18:00

Once a wallet address is exposed, it needs to be changed. If you don't even have this basic knowledge, you'll get rekt sooner or later.

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JustHodlIt

· 12-04 17:58

Damn, I just realized I might have been monitored for my entire wallet history... --- Seriously, using one address the whole time makes it feel like all my privacy has been stripped away. --- No wonder my friend always knows when I enter or exit the market—turns out it’s all on-chain. --- So should I open a new wallet now? Or just give up on privacy altogether? --- This is why I never tell anyone my wallet address. You guys who share your addresses are really gutsy. --- The transparency of the chain really is a double-edged sword sometimes... --- Haha, isn’t this the most ironic thing about Web3? Supposedly decentralized, yet every move is visible to everyone. --- I’ve already used five or six wallets—only way to spread the risk. --- So those people who say blockchain protects privacy are just lying to us?

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quietly_staking