For most of the day, I turned on my computer every few hours to check if he had sold, balancing my anxiousness to unload Dr. Scum with my fear that I would be hacked. These were some of the worst hours of my life. That evening, I realized the website hadn’t been working properly and someone had already paid me $19,896.20 worth of Ethereum. Then I had to repeat the excruciating process of sending those coins to Coinbase and converting them back to dollars without losing my money due to typos or hacks. At one point, Coinbase’s access to the Ethereum network went down. My money was in limbo for
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