Found an Ethereum wallet in the wild with a tiny sum of shitcoins !!!

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Found an Ethereum wallet in the wild with a tiny sum of shitcoins !!!

So I was reading about how seed phrases are generated and trying to find Python code samples to see how it works. I stumbled on this article and the author walks through the process then generates a 12 word recovery phrase as an example.

As you would do, I got curious and imported the words into metamask, boom, couple of worthless shitcoins are being held there. Here is the address

There is less than $1 worth of dust in there. The article was published in May 2020 and the address seems to have received some funds 3 years ago.

This got me thinking, how many people are running scripts to generate seed phrases and testing if they have funds in there? I realize it's highly unlikely given probabilities. But it got me paranoid.

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