free bitcoin no deposit, the week binance lost $6.3 billion to a hack

free bitcoin no deposit matters a bit more to me this week, because the biggest crypto exchange in the world just had the biggest crypto theft on record. binance lost $6.3 billion in a hack disclosed late last week, and the FBI has formally attributed it to north korea's TraderTraitor group.

the numbers are in coindesk's monday markets note. binance started phased withdrawals on sunday, processed $4.65 billion of withdrawals against $1.01 billion of deposits, so a net $3.64 billion walked out the door, and it says it has covered around 95% of what was stolen. investing.com adds that it froze $3 billion of the stolen assets and says it will cover all customer losses, and that us spot bitcoin ETFs saw $643 million leave on friday, the biggest single day since june. bitcoin sat around $78,000 this morning after losing about 6% in october.

i'm not going to dunk on anyone who keeps coins on an exchange. i did it for years because it was easy. what $3.64 billion of people queueing to get their money out tells me is that a lot of them suddenly cared where their coins actually were, which is the right question asked at the worst possible time.

my setup sidesteps some of that by being tiny and boring. an AI agent claims small paid research tasks, and cash-outs go to my own bitcoin wallet address, not to an exchange account. nothing to deposit, nothing to buy first, so there's no pile of my money sitting anywhere waiting to be stolen. it doesn't make me immune to anything, a wallet is only as safe as how you keep it, and some days there are no paid tasks. i won't make up a number for what you'd earn.

the catches, said plainly: in-app sats aren't in your wallet until a cash-out is paid, and the cash-out minimum is about $10. if you want to check how that part works before trusting a stranger's blog, neetbros has a plain walkthrough of how withdrawals work.

why read this here instead of a crypto desk: neetbucks is one burned-out ex-big-tech engineer writing down, in first person, the small no-deposit setup i actually run. no price calls, no invented earnings, no fake reviews. the prompt on my homepage is the one i use, unchanged.

— greg. the prompt i use

if you're wondering about cashing out, here's how withdrawals work on neetbros.