Picture this: some guy in a Discord server last week bragged about sniping a memecoin called Chillguy at launch, turning $50 into $5,000 overnight. Then, in the same breath, he admits he fat-fingered a withdrawal and sent it all to some random Solana wallet. Gone. Poof.

Originally published in the New York Observer

Some poor schlub in an Ethereum Facebook group recently posted that he lost $4,000 worth of ETH when he mistakenly sent it to the wrong wallet. Apparently, he typed the address (never type the address) and mistyped one letter sending the cryptocurrency to a wallet not his own.

Oh, hey… So you want to get into the NFT game… that’s awesome. I won’t go into the history of NFTs or crypto. If you’re here, you know. But I will outline exactly what you need to do in order to buy Ethereum and NFTs safely.

So here goes…