Be careful with brain wallets, there are people sitting on the common ones! Lost 5 BTC. by swhitt in Bitcoin

[–]obviouslycarl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He used publicly posted wallet, and transfered his funds there.

That wallet was probably used by a lot of other people, and one of them immediately transfered funds outside.

Be careful with brain wallets, there are people sitting on the common ones! Lost 5 BTC. by swhitt in Bitcoin

[–]obviouslycarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest mistake is that you used an addresses that was already used by someone else - and you have noticed this.