Dad got his crypto stolen - You can't protect people from themselves.

I just need to vent right now.

I got my dad turned onto Bitcoin and he ended up with a sizeable chunk on coinbase, right? He gets his passwords compromised at least once a year, so being the dutiful son that I am, I buy him a trezor and my wife and I help him set it up.

He's a little upset that he can't check his balance all the time, but I assure him it's much safer in his trezor that's sitting in his closet safe than it is on coinbase.

Fast forward to yesterday. I'm on vacation and he calls me asking why his trezor pin doesn't work. He tells me, "it already had me put in all 24 of those damn passwords, why won't it work?".

I told him over and over and over when I set up his trezor and the seed phrase. "Dad, don't type this in anywhere, don't even take a photo of it". And what does he do the first time he tries to use his trezor himself?

I am so angry and frustrated right now it's kinda ruining my vacation. You cannot save people from themselves.

EDIT: While I appreciate the "advice" of all you crypto aficionados, consider this - dear old dad was supposed to leave the trezor in his safe and not touch it without me. Literally he had an index card with all the Do's, Don'ts, and all that. And sweet lord Satoshi, y'all project/assume a lot.

EDIT2: Reading all the comments, both the empathetic and the weirdly hostile/salty ones, made me feel better about the whole situation. And yeah, my immediate thought as soon as he called me was that I should have kept the seed to myself. Fuck me for trusting my old man to listen to me. Big lesson learned, and not about BTC.

And since people have asked what exactly happened and to pass that lesson along: Afaik he tried to access his trezor and ended up on a trezor lookalike site that prompted him to put in his recovery seed. I don't know much beyond that right now.

Submitted May 27, 2021 at 04:19AM by Cackling_Crow https://bit.ly/3bY6f37