Topic: Day i have lost my 100 bitcoins - page 2. (Read 875 times)
I am not sorry for your loss. If you are careless with 100 bitcoins which is worth millions at current prices, you deserved to be parted with the money sooner or later. Hope you learn from this in future.
If you have ever literally lost a hundred bitcoins, you are the unluckiest person ever to come to this point. But you mentioned that you got free bitcoins but as far as I know no free bitcoins were given in any event maybe you were given some other coin instead of bitcoins which has no value in the market. But if you're sure it wasn't a coin other than Bitcoin, you'll have to believe it. But a few years ago when the price of Bitcoin was good enough if you receive 100 Bitcoins in your wallet why you are not aware of your wallet. Even at that time, since the value of Bitcoin was very high, if you were aware at that time, you might have kept your Bitcoin safe.
Is getting bitcoin through a faucet years ago considered free? And when it first launched, bitcoin had no value at all and as I heard, every time bitcoin was distributed, some people even received 5BTC each time. Furthermore, in 2009 and 2010, bitcoin was the only cryptocurrency in the world, so I don't think the OP couldn't distinguish whether it was bitcoin or altcoin.
OP is not the only person who lost bitcoins, and that 100 bitcoins is not the largest number ever lost. It seems like you're doubting the story but if you check his account he's been here since 2013 so it could be a true story.
One day, a few years ago now, I had ~100 bitcoins on Old Usb Key.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
I've always ignored this thread from the very day it was opened but thought I should just drop my view about this today. Lol...Sorry for your loss, but I must say that this story did not touch me in any way, and that's if it's ever true. By the way, how much is the total cost of what you lost altogether not regarding the current state of Bitcoin?I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
I mean the price you purchased the Bitcoin then and the value of the USB you stored it in. I asked the question to add credence to the discussion because even if I buy a thing with a total package of $20, I wouldn't handle it as if it was nothing, not to mention of what holds an asset in it that was being saved for future purposes. I've read many similar stories like this but I always denote the insincerity in them because it can't be taken as carelessly as that even if Bitcoin was bought at the value of just $10. In your case, it's 100 x $10 ($1,000), which is still a fortune, to say the least.
Hello
One day, a few years ago now, I had ~100 bitcoins on Old Usb Key.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
One day, a few years ago now, I had ~100 bitcoins on Old Usb Key.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
Having $1,00 worth of Bitcoin in the past years and you never cared keeping it on track or having the though of having it at all? And just of recent it got to your attentions that you once had bitcoin with the keys stored somewhere you can't find it anymore? Oh damnit. How careless are you Op? I guess it should be the cause of the excited pumpkin the market that called on your attention towards it otherwise I don't think you'd still care about it.
You don't really have to be sad about it because it's assumed you've more than the lost because you only disregard what's not valuable to you so , it's a thing that the lost assets wasn't valuable to you otherwise you'd had been extremely careful about you. This is an assets in discuss about here and not just of $.
It's good to know that you've realized yourself and so doing insighting to be careful next time.
Let the experienced of those who had shared their ugly situations in the pasts serve as lessions to us all.
Don't feel depressed Op, you can always make it again at when you're determined to make a difference.
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
Where have you been living all this while that you just yremembered you've 100 Bitcoin... In a cave?
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
Heh for hoarders, this is good news. I grew up not being able to let go of things
no matter how old it was because “it might be useful in the future.”
And it never is but I never know it might actually be a hard wallet containing
bitcoins and it can totally change my whole life for the better.
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
Heh for hoarders, this is good news. I grew up not being able to let go of things
no matter how old it was because “it might be useful in the future.”
And it never is but I never know it might actually be a hard wallet containing
bitcoins and it can totally change my whole life for the better.
If you have ever literally lost a hundred bitcoins, you are the unluckiest person ever to come to this point. But you mentioned that you got free bitcoins but as far as I know no free bitcoins were given in any event maybe you were given some other coin instead of bitcoins which has no value in the market. But if you're sure it wasn't a coin other than Bitcoin, you'll have to believe it. But a few years ago when the price of Bitcoin was good enough if you receive 100 Bitcoins in your wallet why you are not aware of your wallet. Even at that time, since the value of Bitcoin was very high, if you were aware at that time, you might have kept your Bitcoin safe.
Hello
One day, a few years ago now, I had ~100 bitcoins on Old Usb Key.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
You consider your real life experience as a story, this is why I won't believe your story, but I would like to make some contribution still.One day, a few years ago now, I had ~100 bitcoins on Old Usb Key.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
This story makes me sad, because if I'd known, I'd have been more careful!
Moral: be careful with your stuff, even if it's old :p
So you can't find the UBS anymore? When was this? Because it makes no sense to have 100 Bitcoin and not aware that Bitcoin hit 69k in 2021, why are you just looking for a way to get your USB now?
Are you really sure that you ever had one? Because it doesn't look like it, your Bitcoin wallet do have a private key or recovery seed, do you not write that down and keep separately? Or you kept this in the same USB drive?
Even as a hardware wallet owner, I still keep my recovery seed far away from my hardware wallet, the keys are more important than the hardware because through the keys is the only way to get access into assets again.
I think it's impossible to tell you to not feel bad about it, because we are talking about 7,000,000$ dollars. Anyway, you aren't the only one to face this harsh situation. There are some stories on the internet of another early investors who have also lost access to their wallets which were replenished of Bitcoins.
My doubt is, why some early investors were so careless over their coins back then? Didn't they believe Bitcoin have potential to become valuable like we see nowadays? Weren't they faithful adopters who were holding thinking on long term gains? What was their purpose by accumulating Bitcoin if it wasn't to store and keep it safely, then?
My doubt is, why some early investors were so careless over their coins back then? Didn't they believe Bitcoin have potential to become valuable like we see nowadays? Weren't they faithful adopters who were holding thinking on long term gains? What was their purpose by accumulating Bitcoin if it wasn't to store and keep it safely, then?
of course it's possible, when bitcoin appeared, it wasn't worth anything and so I disregarded it, I remembered it not so long ago when I moved and found some old stuff. sad reality.
I wish I hadn't remembered, today it haunts me.
trust bitcoin and keep safe even the last drop of satoshi we have in our wallets because
some day this will have huge value like what you said now that back in those days bitcoin
isn't worth anything.
and also lucky that you remembered this today and not when Bitcoin is already
worth millions of dollars each because that will surely Haunt you more than how you feels now.
Wuen things don't have a worth we don't seem to give much meticulous care about them simply because their value isn't at the time worth the care it need given, and this was the case with bitcoin many years ago that a lot of people had to lose their funds invested in bitcoin because they can't recall when or where they last saw or kept their hard wallet or stored their wallet seed phrase. I think the moral lesson here should be, "when something is said to be a promising asset in the future put in effort to safe keep it as you don't know what the future value of such asset can be". Look at all those that had their wallet's intact till today, they are now the whales we are referring too on each bitcoin market discussion.
I can't help but wonder, why would someone buy a hardware wallet and store their Bitcoin in it if they don't find its value intriguing enough for them to take good care of it. As far as I know, people store their Bitcoin in a hardware wallet only if they either want to hold it for the long term or to keep it safe from exploits and stuff and when someone does that, they should also make sure where their hardware wallets are kept to make sure it's safe and sound.It is understandable if a person says that they had their wallet in an old computer and lost access to it, but when someone says that they had a bunch of Bitcoins in a hardware wallet lying around, I feel like they are either making up a story or they are extremely careless with their stuff.
I remembered that I had a Bitcoin wallet not long ago and I tried to find my USB key, without success.
Where have you been living all this while that you just remembered you've 100 Bitcoin... In a cave?
In case he is suffering about the lost Bitcoins, I would suggest to buy a lottery ticket every week with a top price of the current 100 Bitcoin value, maybe he is lucky again to make a good decision ..
your idea is good, but if you invest in cryptocurrency, or stocks, or lotteries, all of them involve risk. I would say that if you are going to trade then you should also know about the small fundamental news that will keep you updated with the market and reduce your risk and profit. This very good strategy I am also use this strategy in trading and other investment. 
Similar to the mentioned incident, it is possible to see a good number of users losing access to their wallets, which have a good amount of bitcoin. People never thought of bitcoin reaching this high, and the same makes them go careless. When the price has reached its peak, people start looking for the wallet and try to remember the recovery phrase. Some people were lucky to recover the wallet with the backup, but the majority lost it. So, we need to be careful when handling anything, despite the value it holds.
You are right that we should take good care of the things we own despite their current value because we never know what value they might have in the future. So as it is always said a person shouldn't just learn from their own mistakes but they should also learn from the mistakes of others, so such stories teach us the lesson that we shouldn't be careless with our assets even if they aren't worth a lot for now.
100 Bitcoins right now is a life-changing amount, and I'm pretty sure anyone that have lost that much money will feel extremely bad, so I feel sorry for OP, however, I believe it's his own mistake because he had the Bitcoins in a USB stick and still couldn't keep it somewhere safe.
Similar to the mentioned incident, it is possible to see a good number of users losing access to their wallets, which have a good amount of bitcoin. People never thought of bitcoin reaching this high, and the same makes them go careless. When the price has reached its peak, people start looking for the wallet and try to remember the recovery phrase. Some people were lucky to recover the wallet with the backup, but the majority lost it. So, we need to be careful when handling anything, despite the value it holds.
Those who have collected a lot of Bitcoin at the beginning certainly would never have thought that the price of Bitcoin could reach the price it is today so they think Bitcoin is not an asset that they have to look after and at that time they could get it at a low price but for some people who still keep the key their wallets have certainly enjoyed the profits they have earned, yes, it is indeed important for us to keep the keys to the wallets where we store Bitcoin so that we don't make mistakes like those who think Bitcoin is just useless for them so they regret it when don't have access. 
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I don't know if your story is true and if you lost coins for real, but many bitcoiners from the early days lost the keys to their coins because BTC was not worth anything in the early days and they did not bother about securing their coins or taking security seriously. These days people are more careful with how they handle their coins and security is now the first thing most bitcoiners aim to achieve once they buy BTC. There is even a similar story of a man who threw away his hard drive containing 7,500 BTC's in 2013, his name is James Howells, he has been going 'crazy' in recent years on how to recover it because BTC is now so valuable, but back in 2013 it wasn't and so he carelessly lost it.So unless a miracle happens, those coins are lost and there is no way to get them back, and in order to make sure this does not happen to us, we need to prepare properly and protect our coins, otherwise in a decade or two we could be the ones lamenting the loss of our bitcoin.
Am sure one day if any of us gets to loose any other coin besides BTC and it becomes a valued coin, stories or post like this would be written to remember it.
I have lost some BTC also at the first onset of joining a campaign when I knew not how to withdraw or transfer to and from a wallet. In shut, I had so little knowledge that when I decided to use a trust wallet, I lost the key phrases and didn't know it was necessary to recover the coins.
Certainly not your keys, not your coins for that day.
Am sure I wouldn't make such an error today because the knowledge I have gathered has helped sharpen my cryptocurrencies IQ to the point that believe in the continued rising value of BTC as an asset and as a good future investment to sponsor a dream or get an achievement.
I have lost some BTC also at the first onset of joining a campaign when I knew not how to withdraw or transfer to and from a wallet. In shut, I had so little knowledge that when I decided to use a trust wallet, I lost the key phrases and didn't know it was necessary to recover the coins.
Certainly not your keys, not your coins for that day.
Am sure I wouldn't make such an error today because the knowledge I have gathered has helped sharpen my cryptocurrencies IQ to the point that believe in the continued rising value of BTC as an asset and as a good future investment to sponsor a dream or get an achievement.
I didn't remember having them, as I'd had them at the very beginning. This USB key was lying around in a drawer, as I imagine a lot of people have
I don't know if your story is true and if you lost coins for real, but many bitcoiners from the early days lost the keys to their coins because BTC was not worth anything in the early days and they did not bother about securing their coins or taking security seriously. These days people are more careful with how they handle their coins and security is now the first thing most bitcoiners aim to achieve once they buy BTC. There is even a similar story of a man who threw away his hard drive containing 7,500 BTC's in 2013, his name is James Howells, he has been going 'crazy' in recent years on how to recover it because BTC is now so valuable, but back in 2013 it wasn't and so he carelessly lost it.
Just 2 points I noticed:
1) The OP says he is a Bitcoin trader, so maybe he still made a lot of money with Bitcoin, and just made a specific mistake regarding this USB stick with 100 Bitcoin....
2) In case he is suffering about the lost Bitcoins, I would suggest to buy a lottery ticket every week with a top price of the current 100 Bitcoin value, maybe he is lucky again to make a good decision ..
1) The OP says he is a Bitcoin trader, so maybe he still made a lot of money with Bitcoin, and just made a specific mistake regarding this USB stick with 100 Bitcoin....
2) In case he is suffering about the lost Bitcoins, I would suggest to buy a lottery ticket every week with a top price of the current 100 Bitcoin value, maybe he is lucky again to make a good decision ..
Oh my God!! 🥺 this breaks my heart... If it was me.. I would never have peace of mind 😢
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