You're probably right, he had blinders on for this and couldn't see past his own intellect. Either way, it's super, super sad.
Discussion
has luke verified this story himself?
Theres no other way for a hacker to steal bitcoin unless it was on a computer somewhere. The only other thing I can think of is some entropy weakness but that seems not as likely
I’m still shocked he wouldn’t be completely batshit paranoid like most of us are to leave that kind of exposure.