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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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!

The way you say "a few years ago" it sounds like it wasn't a decade ago and if that is the case, your Bitcoin must had some value even then if, as you said, you have 100 Bitcoins, so even if one Bitcoin was worth $1k, you had $100k lying around and you just kept it in a drawer instead of trying to sell them or transfer them to an exchange platform so that you can sell them later on. That sounds very careless and one shouldn't be like that with their financial holdings.

This is the reason why people without much knowledge and awareness about such things shouldn't get involved if they are investing money what's the point if you can't manage your wallet or keep your assets safe? They will either be lost or stolen in no time if you don't know how to keep them secure.

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OP you are Bitcoin Trader Since 2010, right? Which in my point of view you should have a good knowledge about the crypto space. Your one wrong step can clean wash out your whole wallet well in your case you have stored 100 Bitcoin in the Old USB that may compromised somehow by hackers or by someone. In the space of Crypto dear privacy and security are the first priorities if you neglect them you may have to face the bad troubles just you are facing after losing a fair amount of Bitcoin.

Other Than that once you have lost something in the crypto world means you have done with it but you have really lost a big amount which is seriously a bad thing dear keep in mind from the next time that you have to keep secure your assets in crypto world just you have to stay up to date from the updated techniques hackers use to scam the holding funds.

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Did you, OP, tell anyone before your USB disappeared that you had 100 bitcoins? Perhaps someone managed to steal it after obtaining this information from you, and regardless of what happened to the old USB, losing it is a big lesson for you. Still, it does not make you sad; rather, it makes you cautious about protecting your seedphrases and not storing them on a USB alone if the USB malfunctions or is stolen...Etc. You will lose access to your assets forever.

This lesson also teaches you that wealth is created through Bitcoin. If you were not lucky the last time you lost your USB, you will be lucky in the coming times and opportunities. If you are not able to accumulate 100 BTC now due to the high price of Bitcoin, then even the amount that you do not feel its value now will have huge value in the future. Never lose hope and only take away positive lessons from these stories.

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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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

It is better to be cautious in any activity in life. You may not have been so careful at the time when the price of Bitcoin was so low that you were not so careful and carelessly put the seed phrase in your wallet. If you had kept your wallet seed phrase carefully, you would not have lost your bitcoins. Now at this price your 100 bitcoins = $7288100 which is unimaginable to people like us. But as the price of Bitcoin rises, so will your misery. From here every human being should be careful that before doing anything we should be careful if we can act carefully then later such mistakes may not happen. If you had not lost this amount of bitcoins, you would have lived happily ever after.

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This is a real tragedy. According to some sudies and stimes, about 20% of BTC are lost forever due to forgotten wallets, forgotten passwords, lose access to hardware wallets or paper wallets containing their Bitcoin private keys, failures of hardware devices or storage media containing Bitcoin private keys, Bitcoin sent to addresses with no known private keys or to non-standard addresses. So, there are many ways to lose BTC. One should always take all possible measures to prevent these issues. However, if you handle a lot of money, the fear of losing it is always there, I think.

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Quote from: CryptoBuds on March 12, 2024, 04:26:13 AM

No offense, but why is it that every time bitcoin price increases or during bull season, stories of losing bitcoins or missing out on bitcoins increase day by day? This is really strange and even if it were true, would our whining and sadness bring them back to us? For me, the past is the past and let's focus on the present because we have no way to get back what we lost in the past.

Have you started your bitcoin accumulation journey now? Or are you still sitting there lamenting the bitcoins you lost in the past due to your mistakes? If you still don't take action, your future will never get better.

The past is the past but some past hurts more than ever, they will always be a part of you, I don't want to know how strong you are, just pray that something very bad doesn't happen to you, I know this is investment field but past isn't just past.

Past are different types, some are magnets, they stay in us like they are part of the bone in the body, and the past is part of the reasons that will reshape the future, what do you think will happen to those who will survive the Ukraine and Russia war? You think they can move on losing all their families?

This is a part to my point that not all past are just mere past, some will become a glue like and the future decisions will be impacted by those past, mistakes are mistakes, we move on, but they could happen again if we don't learn from it.

It's also the same with forgiving, if you forgive and move on, you will find yourself in the same similar mess again, but if you forgive and never forget, you will keep evading any similar incident that's gearing up to happen again.

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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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

Don't neglect anything, a little valuable asset in the present can be a mountain in the future. For example, the biggest loss you have faced at present is due to careless keeping of Bitcoin wallet keys. However, especially if you had written the keys down in a paper or diary and kept them in a safe place, you could have recovered this precious resource at this time. Since you destroyed it, it can never be recovered.

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I remember the episode in Big Bang Theory in netflix about Leonard,Raj and howard found out that they have bitcoin and looking for their USB with Bitcoin but stuart found it and deleted all the files and sold for some bucks .

Lesson learn that we must trust and keep safe our precious Bitcoin or else we will regret this forever .

Sorry for your loss mate and hope you have invested more now .

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It seems very disappointing it seems very unusual to make such a mistake for bitcoin investment. You had to be very careful to keep them. I think you can find the USB key better. As the value of bitcoin is increasing, you will be much better off finding the USB key. Valuable things at work should be kept carefully so that if needed later there is no regret. If you have it at home you can find it.

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Quote from: tabas on March 12, 2024, 04:46:36 AM

You're just one of the many that have forgotten their private keys and didn't care that much about the Bitcoin that they've held. Just like the guy that had his old harddrive wanting to be dug up on an old sanitary field but that's no luck at all because that has been dumped there for years. Also, another guy that had forgotten his password to his wallet that contains a lot of bitcoins too and IIRC, he's got 2 attempts left or else it will completely gone forever. I think that in the old days, everyone didn't expect that Bitcoin will grow this much so, they didn't protected themselves by having a backup.

Correct. Of the many people I have seen losing bitcoin because they forgot their private key both on this forum and on YouTube and other media, they were those who got to know bitcoin when it was still cheap and getting it was also a little easier, starting from faucets, mining, etc. So they didn't think that Bitcoin would be as expensive as it is now, so at that time many of them didn't think that private key security was very important. I would probably be like them if I were in their position, so it's not surprising that if Bitcoin experiences an increase or reaches a new ATH then stories like this will always reappear, maybe because they want to remember their regrets and also make us realize how important it is to protect private keys with safe.

All these stories are lessons for everyone, both true and fictional stories. But the point remains one, protect your private keys like you protect your life.

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I understand that feeling of vulnerability, when you remember what you should have had and you know that you can't have it, it's something to spoil your day when you remember it. I've had a similar experience of losing my Bitcoin too, mine was that I probably didn't arrange my seed phrase in the right order and the imported wallet keeps telling me I've misspelled a word, i tried different combinations of similar words and it wouldn't open, although the Bitcoin inside can never be compered to what the OP lost. I guess that most new investors that didn't have guidance while creating a wallet will have a sad story to tell, because they wouldn't know the importance of securing they seed phrase.

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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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

When I read your story, at first I doubted what you were saying, but when I looked at your profile, it seems that you are telling the truth, so I'm sorry if I doubted you. If it was hidden in your USB, that means it can still be fixed until now, or it cannot be.

Where do you remember it being placed? at your house? at the office? because if you just misplaced your USB in the two that I mentioned, it's possible that you might still see it. That's why the chances are low because it's been 11 years. But that's a shame. 100 bitcoins—how much is that now? It's around 7.1 million dollars.

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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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

Even though it happened a few years ago, losing 100 bitcoins is a very big loss.
If you have 100 bitcoins up to now of course you will have a lot of assets and can make you rich. Hopefully you'll find it someday.

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If this story is real, then you can always look for the opportunity to find back your USB I'm sure there are still ways to find it because you won't lose anything if you still try until now. who knows it could be just in another drawer or in some other container that you forgot to keep there and you still have it but you cannot remember where you put it but it's still in your house. If it's me, I will exert all effort to look for it because it won't be that hard to find it back again rather than complaining and surrendering while I still have the chance to look for it right now.

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Quote from: davis196 on March 12, 2024, 01:59:22 AM

OP, I don't understand the point of your forum thread. Do you want to just complain? It's all gone. What's the point of complaining? We've heard many horror stories about BTC being lost forever or stolen. Your story doesn't add anything new. I'm sorry for your loss, but we can't do anything to bring back those 100 BTC. You didn't mention when did you lose the USB key. I thought that you've lost 100 BTC today, based on your thread title.
Can you provide any valid evidence that you really had a USB with 100 Bitcoins? Any noob can make a forum post about having lost 100 or 1000 BTC years ago. Some noobs even make such posts to get merit, which is kinda pathetic.

At first I was quite skeptical about OP's story and these stories are nothing new as we have heard hundreds of similar stories. But as some have pointed out, his account was created in 2013 so it can be believed that what he said is true. But I agree with you, what is the purpose of this topic because other than him complaining about losing 100BTC, I don't see anything to discuss.
And if he wants to remind people then I think it's unnecessary because the value of bitcoin is very high these days and people won't be stupid to lose it like early investors like OP. Today's investors check bitcoin prices hourly and check their wallets daily, so losing bitcoin seems impossible. Things have changed a lot since bitcoin became as valuable as it is today.

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Quote from: Bonds6637 on March 12, 2024, 03:56:12 AM

It's unfortunate that some people only remember their holdings when the bitcoin price has skyrocketed, and by then, it's often too late. However, it's important to take responsibility for our assets and give them the care they deserve. While becoming a millionaire may not be meant for everyone, it's still essential to be mindful of our investments and take steps to protect them. In the end, we can only learn from our mistakes and move forward with a better understanding of the value of our assets. Kia Finance Login

Richards reward was to be happy for what he got. I don't bother to read to the end.

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Quote from: uneng on March 11, 2024, 11:35:13 AM

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?

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.

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Quote from: sokani on March 11, 2024, 10:22:40 AM

Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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?

This person created their account on 2013, if they bought bitcoin before that or got it through other means then it is entirely possible they may have forgotten they got that bitcoin long ago.

However it seems they stored their coins in an USB, which is a bad idea as those devices are known to go bad for no reason, making the recovery of those coins difficult if not impossible, so let this be just another reminder to keep our coins secure and keep several backups as well.

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Quote from: TrAsHeR on March 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

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

It's a really bad experience 100 bitcoins means $7.15M at current prices. Which is no small and normal amount. If you don't keep a backup of these wallets, you will never get them back. And if no one else can use them, they will be completely lost. Bitcoin is fully decentralized and here the wallet key is the key to everything. If someone loses this key, he will lose his bitcoins for life. There is no other way to get them back other than the key

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