“Crypto was supposed to be the touchdown.” That’s the haunting line from 54-year-old Brandon LaRoque after losing $3 million in XRP—his entire retirement fund—to hackers. Let this serve as a blunt and necessary warning to anyone still clinging to the belief that cryptocurrency is some kind of digital safe haven. It’s not. In fact, as this tragedy shows us yet again, it’s a digital minefield. And the cost of one misstep? Everything. According to blockchain analysts and sources at Daily Hodl, the attackers initiated a simple two-step test transaction of 10 XRP, confirmed access, and then swept over 1.2 million XRP into a laundering chain that ended up—predictably—in jurisdictions hostile to U.S. oversight. Let’s call this what it is: a…
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