You'll LOSE All Your XRP... If You Don't DO THIS (Not Clickbait)

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Imagine you're a 54-year-old retiree with $3 million worth of XRP in your wallet, [music] and one day you wake up and it's all gone.

[00:00:08]>> And I guess the last time I checked it was Saturday, and I checked it this morning at 4:30, >> [music] >> and it looks like on Sunday morning somebody removed 10 XRP, then they removed 2 minutes later from 11:15 Eastern time. They removed 10 XRP, and then a couple minutes later they removed another 1,290 XRP.

[00:00:30]>> That's Brandon, and it's exactly what happened to him. $3 million worth of XRP gone within a few minutes. And if your crypto is on Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, or any other centralized exchange, you're a target for the exact same attack. Even if you think you're safe because you've got a cold wallet, you might not be safe because that's exactly what Brandon thought.

[00:00:50]>> it on a cold wallet. It's called an Ellipal cold wallet, and I thought I did all the things right. I didn't write down I wrote down my seed [music] phrase. I cut the decide um I don't I wouldn't be about it over the phone. I don't answer phone calls like that. I thought I did a pretty good job.

[00:01:07]>> So, in this video I'll show you Brandon's mistake and the five rules for ironclad crypto security, so something like this never happens to you. This will be the most important video that you watch not only all year long, but throughout your entire crypto career.

[00:01:22]Because in one of my previous videos I talked about how you don't own your XRP or your other altcoins if you have them on a centralized exchange, and I got a lot of comments from people saying things like the wild wild west of crypto is over. And those same people are putting themselves at risk by not understanding what I'm going to talk [music] about in this video. So, pay close attention because these five rules are non-negotiable. So, as always, like this video, subscribe to the channel if you're feeling bullish, and if you're going to become the first millionaire in your family tree, confirm it by commenting amen below. Also, guys, I'm giving away my 2026 altcoin trading blueprint and crypto yield strategies to everyone who follows us on Instagram @bullrunners. The official link to our account will be in the description below this video. Let's run it.

[00:02:01]>> [snorts] [music] >> All right bull runners, welcome back to the channel. So, before I get into Brandon's mistake, you need to understand the trap that most crypto holders are walking into right now. So, imagine you had $1 million in cash. You could leave it inside of a friend's safe. Maybe your friend's honest. Maybe nothing bad happens for [music] years.

[00:02:27]But, the moment that something goes wrong on their end, maybe their house gets [music] robbed, they go bankrupt, they get raided, they decide to lock you out, your million dollars is gone [music] because you don't control the safe. They do. So, that's what a centralized exchange is. Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, every dollar of crypto sitting on them is sitting inside someone else's safe. You may technically own the crypto, but you don't control where it's stored. The other option [music] is to buy your own safe. So, you hold your own private keys. Nobody else's bad day touches your money. And that's what cold storage is. But, here's what most people miss. The safe itself doesn't make you safe. The setup makes you safe. You can buy the most expensive [music] safe in the world, but if you set it up wrong, if you put it in the wrong location, the combination is already out there before [music] you even close the door. And that's exactly what happened to Brandon. Brandon got into crypto in 2017 and for 8 years, he bought and he held XRP. [music] By October 2025, he had over 1.2 million XRP, which was worth more than $3 million at the time. [music] Now, listen to how he describes his setup.

[00:03:36]>> I had it on a cold wallet. It's called an LA Pal cold wallet. And I thought I did all the things right. I didn't write down write down my seed phrase. Cut through the safe.

[00:03:47]Didn't give anybody over the phone.

[00:03:48][music] That's the phone calls like that. I thought I'd done a pretty good job.

[00:03:54]>> By standard crypto safety advice, Brandon was doing the right things, but he woke up on October 15th around 4:30 a.m., opened the app, and the balance was zero. [music] The coins were split across hundreds of wallets and routed through OTC desks tied to Southeast Asian laundry networks. And once your coins land there, you can never get them back.

[00:04:12][music] So, Brandon thought he had cold storage, but if your seed phrase was ever entered into an app, [music] imported from an old wallet, saved on a connected device, or exposed anywhere online, it's not cold anymore. A real cold wallet means the seed is created offline, written down offline, stored offline, [music] and never typed into anything connected to the internet. A hardware wallet using an exposed seed phrase is not [music] cold storage. The device may be real, the setup though is broken, and that's what costs people absolutely everything.

[00:04:44]Most holders [music] think the moment they buy a hardware wallet, they're safe, but security doesn't come from the device. It comes from how the wallet was created, how the seed phrase was handled and stored, and whether the seed ever touched anything digital. [music] Because one bad setup can wipe out years of holding in one morning. And there are people watching this video right now [music] sitting on bags that they've built over the years, some on Coinbase, some on Binance, some on wallets they set up half paying attention to 2 years ago when they barely understood what a seed phrase was, >> [music] >> and not reevaluating your security protocol is a mistake that could cost you everything. So, this is the most important video that you're ever going to watch in terms of security for crypto because I've seen it happen hundreds of times, [music] and I even had it happen to me when I was newer in crypto. And one of the members inside of our private intelligence network came in exactly like that. His name's John. He was a 69-year-old retired guy. He lost over $25,000 worth of crypto, but within 1 hour of sitting down with his coach, he found the $25,000 of crypto that he thought he'd lost forever. Then he was walked through setting up a proper cold wallet the correct way. And after he also learned how to make passive income on the coins that he's already holding, now he's way more secure for the future.

[00:05:56]But that's for another video. If you want to see the full system that he used, then you can go to first link in the description, watch the free training that I made for you. It walks you through how to secure your crypto, how to eliminate the counterparty risk to these advanced exploits, and how to safety manage your portfolio like a true on-chain institution. Now, John and Brandon are just two examples of how you can lose your whole crypto back. But, let's talk about the second threat. Because to steal your funds.

[00:06:24]They just need to trick you one time into handing them the keys yourself.

[00:06:29]Like the musician named G Love. He's been in Bitcoin for 10 years. So, he was not a newbie to the industry. He saw the future of it. And he went to download Ledger Live. He searched for it online, [music] and he found what looked like the real app inside of Apple's official Mac App Store. He downloaded it, but it was a fake app. The app asked him to enter his 24-word recovery phrase as part of the setup. So, he typed it in, and within minutes 5.92 Bitcoin was drained. Over $400,000 gone. And that's just one way people are losing their keys right now. Sometimes it might be an email that looks exactly like a real Coinbase customer support or Binance customer support message or Ledger customer support message. You name it. With one little spelling error.

[00:07:09]Sometimes it's a physical letter mailed to your home from Ledger with a QR code that sends you to a fake site asking for your recovery phrase to secure your funds. Sometimes it's an NFT airdrop on Twitter straight into your wallet that drains your funds the second you interact with it to check your eligibility. [music] Sometimes it's clipboard malware that swaps the wallet address you just copied right before you paste it. Sometimes it's a deepfake voice call from someone pretending to be your exchange's support team. Or even worse, a family member using AI voice recognition software. Every single month there's a new attack that didn't exist 30 days earlier, and those are only going to increase in complexity and change over time with artificial intelligence. And you never know what the next ones are going to be. The attackers are inventing new methods faster than social media can keep up with. And the only way to actually stay ahead of this is being plugged in with the community that's watching this stuff every single day. Otherwise, you have to find out about the new attack the hard way, the same way the Brandon energy loved it. When it's already happened to you because you're trying to do this all by yourself. So, I want to give you five rules that you can follow. Basically, a playbook for crypto security that you can take for the lifetime [music] of your career in the crypto industry as an investor, or maybe you're content creator watching this. And the whole strategy boils down to one thing, and that's obviously not your keys, not your crypto is the saying. So, rule number one is to use exchanges like a public restroom. You go in, you do your business, you get out. Coinbase, Kraken, or any exchange exists for one thing, and that's on-ramping and off-ramping, buying and selling. It's not your vault, they're just a doorway. Because the second you put your crypto on exchange, you don't own it anymore. They own it for you, they custodied it, and you can lose your funds at any time because they can freeze it whenever they want.

[00:08:56]Voyager did that, Celsius did that, BlockFi did that, FTX did that, Mt. Gox did that, all of them. Now, comment in my previous video said, you know, we're past the Mt. Gox days. No, we're not.

[00:09:07]This is business in a nutshell over the past few hundred years. Companies come, companies go, but self-custody is eternal. The users woke up one day and couldn't withdraw, their money was just gone. And this happens to a new exchange all the time. [music] I even got a letter in the mail that was a real letter from Coinbase, and the CEO verified it, that they hacked into their database and they were asking for a $20 million ransom in order to not [music] release customers' information. And Coinbase said, "No, they're not going to do that." So, [music] these hackers stole customer information. So, the second you're done buying your crypto comes off of the exchange. Rule number two, type the website in yourself every single time. When you want to download a Ledger or Trezor app, you type the address in directly. You don't go to Google and research and then click the first link because they can get outranked by scammers. You need to go directly to the official site and the only way to do that is to memorize it first and then double-check and verify.

[00:09:58]Don't type it in each time. Don't just search the app store. Don't click a link in any email because the fake apps look exactly like the real ones now. They just misspell something like a capital I is really just a lowercase L. So, the only protection is typing the real address yourself. G Love didn't do that.

[00:10:15]He searched for the Ledger app inside Apple's own app store. He found what looked like the real thing. He typed his recovery phrase in like it was a normal setup and he lost over $400,000 in just a minute. Now, rule number three is treat your seed phrase like your birth certificate, your bank pin, your house key combined. You do not want to give away this because the the single most important line of this entire video.

[00:10:37]Burn it into your brain right now because [music] the rule is simple. If it's digital, it can be hacked and with quantum computing coming, artificial intelligence, you best believe it'll likely be hacked.

[00:10:48]That means [music] don't type into notes on your phone. Don't take a picture of it. Don't store it in iCloud. Don't store it in Google Drive or any password manager, even ones that you trust cuz your password can be hacked online.

[00:10:59]Don't even copy and paste it because there's malware out there that watches everything you copy, even when you don't know [music] it's running. Write it on paper or better yet, get a metal backup that etches it into the stainless steel so that way it can't be burned, rust, water damage, you name it. Then put it in a safe hidden in a place a robber won't ever look for. Then [music] rule number four, treat every unexpected message as a scam until proven it's not.

[00:11:23]You know, emails, DMs, NFTs [music] that show up in your wallet for no reason, phone calls, letters in your actual mailbox. We've seen it happen so much on x.com, Elon Musk's account was hacked, then he launched some fake project that from the hacker, the SEC's security division account was hacked, even the president of the United States account can be hacked. So, everyone's account can be hacked at any point. Nobody is safe from these hackers. They are very intelligent. And people claiming to be from customer support are not from customer support. You always want to treat that way. If you didn't reach out to them first, assume they're trying to scam you if they reach out to you first.

[00:11:55]Real companies do not cold call you about your crypto. And also, in the comments below when you comment the word amen or 777, if an account said Bull Runners responds to your comment [music] telling you to reach out on WhatsApp, that is not us. This is a problem plaguing every industry in the world.

[00:12:11]We've banned thousands of accounts.

[00:12:12][music] YouTube can't handle it, Instagram can't handle it. These are farms in other countries trying to steal your funds. So, real companies do not cold call you about your crypto. They don't mail you QR codes. They don't slide into your DMs offering to help recover your funds or compound your wealth through a direct message. So, the scammers are inventing new tricks [music] every single month. And you're not going to be able to catch all of them. But, if you default to no on every unsolicited message, you defend yourself from 90% of attacks before they ever even land. And always remember that owning your own crypto means you also have the responsibility to protect it.

[00:12:45]There's no customer service that bails you out. There's no FDIC insurance on your crypto. There's no fraud department that reverses the transactions. You are the last line of defense. Now, think about what we just walked through throughout this entire video. Brandon didn't lose $3 because he ignored crypto security. He lost it while thinking he was already protected. G Love didn't lose $420,000 because he clicked an obvious scam. He downloaded what looked like a real app from Apple's own store. And this isn't 2017 anymore. The scams are cleaner, they're more advanced. [music] And now, layers of them run on AI. And deep fake voice calls are already happening. The AI-generated phishing emails already look identical to real Coinbase support messages. The [music] fake apps are getting smarter every single month, and the attackers don't sleep. They don't make the obvious mistakes that they used to. A year from now, these scams won't just be cleaner, they'll be indistinguishable from the real thing.

[00:13:46]So, you can't outwatch [music] this alone. Nobody can, not even me.

[00:13:51]That's why we built a private intelligence community for serious investors. You know, people like John, who I mentioned earlier, came in and within 1 hour had his cold wallet locked down and $25,000 in crypto [music] recovered that he thought he lost forever. And here's where another one of our members, Armin, wrote in a recent review. He said, "If I had started with them sooner, I would not have been scammed >> [music] >> out of a good chunk of money." So, that's the difference between making it through this cycle wealthy and ending up on a Reddit thread about how you did everything right and you still got drained and you're trying to figure [music] it out by yourself. So, if you've been holding crypto for a while and you've got that uneasy feeling in your setup that might not actually be locked down [music] the way that you think it needs to be, there's a link in the description. Click it, watch the free training that I put together for you. It shows the entire system, not just how to lock down your security so something like Brandon's situation never happens to you, [music] but also how to actually make money on the crypto that you're already holding safely whether the market goes up, down, or [music] sideways for the next 2 years. How to diversify your funds so you never have one single point of risk or failure. And we also show you how our research teams finds the top coins with the potential for like the 5x, the 50x, the 100x's in pre-market positioning before they ever get listed on centralized >> [music] >> exchanges. And we've caught multiple 50 and 100x's that we've shared with our community first. So, if it makes sense to you, >> [music] >> then you can apply for a call after you watch the video below. And we only take on a limited number of clients every single month because, like I say, we're not going to outsource your future to a call center. Everything that [music] we do is high level and we cap how many new members we bring on every single month to keep the quality high. So, if you see that the calendar is full right now, then just check back in 24 to 48 hours.

[00:15:33]It's a free video. It's a free call. Get all your questions answered. If our intelligence network and the Altcoin Pro Accelerator is not the right thing for you, then our team will be the first ones to let you know that. But, you'll walk away from the call better informed than you started and you came to the call with. Because, think about this, 6 months from right now, you're either still hoping nothing goes wrong [music] or you're the one in your family who locked their bags down before everything else hit the market and all these new scams claimed the next victims. Because, remember, you're the last line of defense and it's your responsibility to protect your bags, built for yourself and for your family. So, subscribe before you go. I have a massive stack of on-chain deep dives dropping this week that you do not want to miss. So, I will see you on the next video. I will see you at the top. As always, you know what to do. Stay bullish.

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