For old users: check you abandoned wallets/exchange/other service accounts - page 2.

hd49728

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Not your keys, not your coins!

Quote from: avikz on January 07, 2021, 01:57:52 AM

Ohh! Same experience! I have started to look at all possible areas to recover my lost funds and have successfully recovered around $40 as on date!

Not only this, some people try to get their banned accounts with frozen inside back when bitcoin tested $20k and climbed to $37k.

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 07, 2021, 02:13:52 AM

Another possible source is forgotten referral commission. Last year I found 0.17 BTC of referral commission on a gambling site account that I didn't visit for 2 years. Good thing that this site was in my browser's bookmarks Grin

Congrats! You are super lucky because you got one or few big gamblers from your referral list. It is easy to invite people to join a platform or gambling site but need very luck to get a big user.

And damn 0.17 BTC has a big value today.

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Quote from: avikz on January 07, 2021, 01:57:52 AM

Ohh! Same experience! I have started to look at all possible areas to recover my lost funds and have successfully recovered around $40 as on date! I know there are more but the issue is that many wallets and exchanges are not functional anymore. I also have 300 units of a token that is worth $2400 at today's rate but now they have been migrated to a different contract address so I am unable to use that token. Trying to get help from Dev team but they are not helping. Pretty frustrated about it!

I used to have few thousands of Doge as well but simply can't remember where I have kept it Sad

Tokens and bounties is another possible source of forgotten value, I too have found in the past some tokens, especially airdrops. in my ETH accounts that I didn't use for a while.

Another possible source is forgotten referral commission. Last year I found 0.17 BTC of referral commission on a gambling site account that I didn't visit for 2 years. Good thing that this site was in my browser's bookmarks Grin

avikz

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Ohh! Same experience! I have started to look at all possible areas to recover my lost funds and have successfully recovered around $40 as on date! I know there are more but the issue is that many wallets and exchanges are not functional anymore. I also have 300 units of a token that is worth $2400 at today's rate but now they have been migrated to a different contract address so I am unable to use that token. Trying to get help from Dev team but they are not helping. Pretty frustrated about it!

I used to have few thousands of Doge as well but simply can't remember where I have kept it Sad

hd49728

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Not your keys, not your coins!

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 07, 2021, 01:38:56 AM

If you don't remember your accounts, search your email with keywords like "withdrawal, deposit, cryptocurrency, BTC, account" and so on.

Nice advice and it is my appreciation.

If someone reads this topic, and check then find a balance in long inactive accounts, congratulations for them. They are lucky, very lucky.
Exchanges have rules in ToS that if you are inactive use your accounts for too long (6 months, one year, etc.), exchanges have rights to close your accounts.
Exchanges can sudden change policies or required by regulatory agencies and delist coins. If you are not manage to withdraw before a deadline, you lose your coin.

Please save your account details offline, and regularly log in to check out their status. If you are not a trader, do it once per month.

hatshepsut93

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As Bitcoin reaches new highs, the amounts that previously could have been ignored now actually turned into dozens of dollars or maybe even more. If you left some "dust" on exchanges or other wallets 4-5 years ago or even more, it could be worth to try to claim it now.

My personal story - I just found $15 worth of alts on my exchange account that I didn't touch for years. I sold them all for DOGE and transferred it to my current exchange account, and now converted it to BTC.

If you don't remember your accounts, search your email with keywords like "withdrawal, deposit, cryptocurrency, BTC, account" and so on.

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