Topic: ANY BTC HOLDER WORST NIGHTMARE, and it happened to me... (Read 3519 times)
Bitcoin holders worst nightmare is bitcoin price go down fast, bitcoin become been hack by someone surely they are gonna be panic, and also when the bitcoin holder just accidentally lost his/her password or private key in bitcoin wallet that is really a nightmare if that happened.
@Drumamat. I'm sorry for youre loss, you have my sympathy.
There is still hope to retrieve you coins. You can't remember youre password anymore however youre password is still sitting in youre head!
I advice you to take a holiday ore do some other stuff you used to do....just give youre brains something to do what you aint doing it on a daily base.
It might give you that ''eureka'' moment and you remember youre password again.
There is still hope to retrieve you coins. You can't remember youre password anymore however youre password is still sitting in youre head!
I advice you to take a holiday ore do some other stuff you used to do....just give youre brains something to do what you aint doing it on a daily base.
It might give you that ''eureka'' moment and you remember youre password again.
I'm sorry for your lost and thank you for sharing your story. This will serve as a lesson to me to always keep a back up copy of my password, printed or saved in a separate flashdisk and keep it in a safe place. I hope you can be able to remember you password one day and may this be a lesson to you too to not rely very much in human memory. They mess up sometimes.
Hey guys,
I just want to share my story, because I feel like only people in this community can get that,
We all know the pizza story, the "young swede than became a millionaire in 2013" story, the lost hard drive story and this one that can happen to anyone:
======>I lost my passphrase. 6months ago, tried everything, even hired "bitcoin dave", nope, nothing, no password no bitcoin.
I was too scared to get hacked somehow or to let a piece of paper with indications about it... Now I'm screwed, I can't find it, no matter what I try my Bitcoins are lost forever. I always kept them, spent .10 of them once and that's it. All of my fortune behind this password was made through mining dogecoin on day one and other altcoins. And guess what, I lost the passphrase to the dogecoins too (1million Doge, could be worse)...
6 months ago I had a little financial down moment, decided to see if I could sell one, and discovered that I forgot the password.
Now, it would be the thing to save my ass (3,5 BTC is a good chunk of change for me) and be able to get back on my feet, and I feel so stupid.
Just wanted to share my experience, kinda looking for mental support here!
Take care (and remind yourself your passphrase everyday, you don't want this feeling I swear).
I just want to share my story, because I feel like only people in this community can get that,
We all know the pizza story, the "young swede than became a millionaire in 2013" story, the lost hard drive story and this one that can happen to anyone:
======>I lost my passphrase. 6months ago, tried everything, even hired "bitcoin dave", nope, nothing, no password no bitcoin.
I was too scared to get hacked somehow or to let a piece of paper with indications about it... Now I'm screwed, I can't find it, no matter what I try my Bitcoins are lost forever. I always kept them, spent .10 of them once and that's it. All of my fortune behind this password was made through mining dogecoin on day one and other altcoins. And guess what, I lost the passphrase to the dogecoins too (1million Doge, could be worse)...
6 months ago I had a little financial down moment, decided to see if I could sell one, and discovered that I forgot the password.
Now, it would be the thing to save my ass (3,5 BTC is a good chunk of change for me) and be able to get back on my feet, and I feel so stupid.
Just wanted to share my experience, kinda looking for mental support here!
Take care (and remind yourself your passphrase everyday, you don't want this feeling I swear).
This is one of the greatest risks with this crypto stuff. Password this, passphrase that. But I thought the 12 words making the passphrase are supposed to be written out and kept somewhere safe. But OP, didn't you write them out or what?
Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.
The only device to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet?
oh lord... no. Paper wallets are just as secure if you have them on something more secure than paper and they have a passphrase. I mean come on man, not even one is looking to buy a $100 piece of hardware to store $100 worth of bitcoins.Have you ever thought a fire outbreak in the house when you aren't around and your hardware sitting pretty in your shelf?
BTW, can someone help me on how to locate the private keys. I have a wallet on the blockchain and another wallet from the Google playstore. How do I locate the private keys to these two different wallets?
sorry to hear about your loss. maybe you should learn a lesson now. you should save all data's and everything that has value to you.
i cannot wait for the day when we get facial recognition or something. my password collection is spiralling out of control and i'm forgetting them as fast as i'm making them. and no i don't trust password managers.
Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.
The only device to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet?
oh lord... no. Paper wallets are just as secure if you have them on something more secure than paper and they have a passphrase. I mean come on man, not even one is looking to buy a $100 piece of hardware to store $100 worth of bitcoins. 
Sorry for your loss. Just put it behind you and think about how you can make that money back.
Did you lose the private key to 1DGLZ2cDMrUPor4CmWxjsVzzYSyimUUYbC?
If so you should probably take it out of your signature.
If so you should probably take it out of your signature.
i see zero bitcoin there, can't be that, how many coin you lost with this password that you forgot? because i find also some times that i'm too paranoid, but not for small amount, but for big amount i usually keep them in cold storage to avoid any real trouble
Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.
What hardware wallet did you bought? 
Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.
Sorry for your loss bud. Always make a few offline copies of your data, hide the in a book, piece of text or something similar. If possible, non English one. Then store that in a cold storage bank safe.
Yes it so sad to hear about that. Losing your money like this is not really good. The suggestion of making copies of the data is a good one but I think we people need to educate other from our experiences and that is to also make some detail of your stuff in hard so it may not be easy to lose. Also if possible use some coding for your data like don’t use the real words in fact make some code words and then keep it in a safe place. 
i remember andreas suggesting to hide your bitcoins in a picture of a cat.
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
there are a lot of these ideas out there, it is best to come up with some combination according to where you live and the household objects you have!
for example i read once about someone who was keeping his electrum seed in his physical phone book. among names and random phone numbers!
If you are keeping it in soft like in a cell phone contacts or in an email etcetera so, they should keep it in various places theses should not be stored in a single place as many things can happen to it. Like the software can be corrupted or anything can happen to the hardware. If we keep it at more than one place it may be safer.
I will advise all the members to use most protected systems for your BTC. It is very panic to face such a situation.
It surely helps, but even the best antivirus and malware software won't be sufficient enough to keep all threats out of your system. In order to prevent your cold wallet coins from being exposed to these dangers, you should have the private keys engraved on a metal bar. Private keys should never be stored on your hard drive, or even worse, in cloud storage. As long as you do that, your coins will be completely safe. However, problem is that the majority of the people create their private keys on *potentially* compromised systems. No matter how much security steps you walk through after that, the one moment where your private keys were unprotected are enough to grant someone else long life access to your coins.
If you are paranoid when it comes to the security of your coins, and no, that's not weird, take a look at https://bitkey.io/ it's free to use.
Hey guys,
I just want to share my story, because I feel like only people in this community can get that,
We all know the pizza story, the "young swede than became a millionaire in 2013" story, the lost hard drive story and this one that can happen to anyone:
======>I lost my passphrase. 6months ago, tried everything, even hired "bitcoin dave", nope, nothing, no password no bitcoin.
I was too scared to get hacked somehow or to let a piece of paper with indications about it... Now I'm screwed, I can't find it, no matter what I try my Bitcoins are lost forever. I always kept them, spent .10 of them once and that's it. All of my fortune behind this password was made through mining dogecoin on day one and other altcoins. And guess what, I lost the passphrase to the dogecoins too (1million Doge, could be worse)...
6 months ago I had a little financial down moment, decided to see if I could sell one, and discovered that I forgot the password.
Now, it would be the thing to save my ass (3,5 BTC is a good chunk of change for me) and be able to get back on my feet, and I feel so stupid.
Just wanted to share my experience, kinda looking for mental support here!
Take care (and remind yourself your passphrase everyday, you don't want this feeling I swear).
I just want to share my story, because I feel like only people in this community can get that,
We all know the pizza story, the "young swede than became a millionaire in 2013" story, the lost hard drive story and this one that can happen to anyone:
======>I lost my passphrase. 6months ago, tried everything, even hired "bitcoin dave", nope, nothing, no password no bitcoin.
I was too scared to get hacked somehow or to let a piece of paper with indications about it... Now I'm screwed, I can't find it, no matter what I try my Bitcoins are lost forever. I always kept them, spent .10 of them once and that's it. All of my fortune behind this password was made through mining dogecoin on day one and other altcoins. And guess what, I lost the passphrase to the dogecoins too (1million Doge, could be worse)...
6 months ago I had a little financial down moment, decided to see if I could sell one, and discovered that I forgot the password.
Now, it would be the thing to save my ass (3,5 BTC is a good chunk of change for me) and be able to get back on my feet, and I feel so stupid.
Just wanted to share my experience, kinda looking for mental support here!
Take care (and remind yourself your passphrase everyday, you don't want this feeling I swear).
That's so sad man. 3,5 BTC is not small at all. I have mine written on a note. I have not checked it for long, but I'll go do that as soon as possible. sorry to hear about your loss.
Found it, for everyone else, here's a link to Open Puff Stenography.
I couldn't find anything specifically related to Bitcoin uses or a Andreas talking about it. But I didn't search the Dark Web or maybe those files were hidden using open puff.
I couldn't find anything specifically related to Bitcoin uses or a Andreas talking about it. But I didn't search the Dark Web or maybe those files were hidden using open puff.
Jonny, you making stuff up again?
Here's what happens when I search "openpuff" > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search2
I was looking forward to reading Andreas' story.
No man. Google search steganography open puff ai remember andreas suggesting to hide your bitcoins in a picture of a cat.
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
Here's what happens when I search "openpuff" > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search2
I was looking forward to reading Andreas' story.
My god that's just bad to worse man, even though ive lost lots of bitcoin in the past yours is just way to big amount especially when bitcoin's price is soaring up and also altcoins.
You should have written your passphrase down or copy paste it in a textfile and hid it away that no one will find. What kind of passphrase is that. ? is it from an online wallet provider or it's just stored in your pc?
If it's an online wallet like coinbase you could try the "Forgotten password function"
You should have written your passphrase down or copy paste it in a textfile and hid it away that no one will find. What kind of passphrase is that. ? is it from an online wallet provider or it's just stored in your pc?
If it's an online wallet like coinbase you could try the "Forgotten password function"
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Jonny, you making stuff up again?
Here's what happens when I search "openpuff" > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search2
I was looking forward to reading Andreas' story.
No man. Google search steganography open puff a i remember andreas suggesting to hide your bitcoins in a picture of a cat.
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
if you lose the pwd just get them from there. search openpuff
Here's what happens when I search "openpuff" > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search2
I was looking forward to reading Andreas' story.
well man you always need to the balance to keep your information safe, my advice to use is to tell someone you trust your password a family member or a friend
Some people call Bitcoin a religion because so many of us are so fanatical about it. I don't like analogies but this one fits. I repeat my password in my head 3 or 4 times a day... almost like a prayer. I am a Bitcoin fanatic.
Agreed, very few are careless or doesn't give importance in memorising their password. In my view same as quoted repeating it often could help you remember it in a easy manner. There are few cases where the retaining of the password is possible through a long process.I know some people may not agree with me at all, but this in itself is the reason that I use an online wallet such as Bitgo or Blockchain.info. I know some people are going to say that they have access to your keys or something like this, but do you really trust that you personally would not lose the keys yourself at some point.
I use BitGo and still do have my keys somewhere in my house in a hidden place, so if I did ever need to get to them I could.
Sorry for your loss though man, pretty sad to see something like this happen and I do wish you luck in trying to find the private keys at some point. You may get lucky if we all pray for ya.
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