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I am a digital nomad. I have been working in IT for more than ten years, and for the last three years I have been working on one project, completely remotely.
Over the past few years, I have lived in the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, and now I am in Kazakhstan.
Constant moving forces you to rebuild your financial life: open accounts in different countries, face fees, currency restrictions, and the unpredictability of local banks. Therefore, cryptocurrency is not an investment for me and not a way to “play the course.” It’s just a tool to live and work between countries without bureaucracy.
I’m not a trader, a crypto enthusiast, or an investor — I just use crypto as a substitute for a bank card. And as a person who is not too deeply immersed in cryptography, I have long believed that storing funds directly on the exchange is quite reliable and convenient.
I used Bybit for this purpose.
(Yes, now it sounds a little ironic — “it seemed reliable.”)
🚨 Blocking
The morning of October 17th started absolutely calmly. I went to have breakfast, opened my mail, and saw an email from Bybit.
At first glance, nothing unusual.: standard notification about “clarifying account information”. I didn’t even pay attention.
After a few minutes, I decided to withdraw some USDT, and that’s when it started. The output is not working. P2P — does not work. Trades are blocked. To say that I was surprised is an understatement. So that you understand the scale of the problem: I was on a trip, flying from Argentina to Kazakhstan to pick up my micromalotype puppy. I didn’t have any cash at all. There was about $50 left on the bank card, just in case. All the fixed assets that I planned to live with in the coming weeks were accumulated in the Bybit wallet. I’m starting to figure out �� what’s going on.
I open the email more carefully and see a link to the transaction in it.: TXID и сумму260 USDT. I copy the hash and open ittronscan.io…and I’m even more surprised.
The transaction has been completedalmost 600 days ago. In other words, we are talking about a transfer that someone sent to my wallet.almost two years ago. Do you think it’s easy to remember who could have made the transfer to 260 USDT almost two years ago and why? At that moment, I was panicking. The details show that the funds came from some kind of strange bot wallet, which is listed99 thousand transactions. Moreover, activity on it stopped in 2024.
It looks like a regular service wallet. But for Bybit algorithms, this is a “suspicious source”. Next, I go to my transaction history on the exchange itself. I open the required period and try to remember what happened then. And then there’s the insight. I remember that it was during that period that II tested Bybit for the first timeand I was doing a test translation.from your personal wallet on Bitpapa to check the speed and fees. I’m going to check Bitpapa — miraculously, after almost two years, the service is still working, and I was able to log in to it. I open the operation history… andI see this same transaction for 260 USDT. Ha