Has anyone ever lost bitcoins before? - page 13.

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Quote from: jt byte on June 05, 2016, 12:08:43 AM

I have on a loan I gave out. It was for 0.150btc.
So I will say that is a loss.

Yes, there are many ways in which one can lose the bitcoins. Like Loan repayment not done. Someone scammed for Bitcoins, lost in gambling and the list goes on. If we see it in depth, we realize that the loss is due to our own negligence.

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Quote from: NyeFe on June 04, 2016, 03:17:07 PM

How, and how much did you manage to lose?

Zero.But i`ve lost potential profits,so it`s a loss Undecided

Why are you asking this?Did you lose btc?

Tell us your story.

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I have on a loan I gave out. It was for 0.150btc.
So I will say that is a loss.

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Well aside from losing Bitcoins to gambling I have forgotten the passwords to several Blockchain wallets when I was first starting out with Bitcoin. Also on top of that because I was testing out different online wallets in order to find the one that would suit me the most I missed out on getting a lot of CLAMS because I didn't keep the login details for the different websites I had registrations at Cheesy

It's not such a big loss I have to admit but it left a sour taste in my mouth and nowadays I am taking a proper care of all my important login details by using a good password manager. You never know when you will need to log in to some old Bitcoin wallet haha Wink

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i can't say i have never lost bitcoin but the total bitcoin lost by me is not big. i have lost some small amounts in one of my addresses that i have created with brainwallet and forgot the password Cheesy

other than that i have only lost some in gambling and some in trading.

and i think i should mention this huge topic about List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses

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Quote from: NyeFe on June 04, 2016, 03:17:07 PM

How, and how much did you manage to lose?

Every day I trade but I counted loss from trading was very small because it will come back in the next day. But I count the loss of the vast majority were from gambling sites and hyip total of about 0.1 BTC , and the money is not returned in contrast to trading. Loss today, profit tomorrow. thank you

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Yes i sold a few in the early days on ebay and was robbed with phished paypal accounts, as usually with paypal the seller gets left holding the can....... Embarrassed

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I've recently been trying to guess the password to my old Bitcoin wallet from 2014, but no avail Sad

I guess I will try earn some Bitcoin from a signature campaign. I stupidly encrypted it with truecrypt, so I don't know how much is in there, but there must be at least 1BTC.

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Quote from: NyeFe on June 04, 2016, 03:17:07 PM

How, and how much did you manage to lose?

I don't prefer to declare the total amount that i lost because the number is pretty high in the recent years but i remember once that i lost around 0.6BTC on trading an altcoin which i was holding for a long time then the price crashed hard to few satoshis which was the stupidest thing that i made trading an altcoin which was not so much popular.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 04, 2016, 04:44:05 PM

I "lost" 380 BTC by pre-ordering miners from Butterfly Labs. Awesome experience.

Ouch that sounds just horrible.

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I "lost" 380 BTC by pre-ordering miners from Butterfly Labs. Awesome experience.

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Lose in what sense ? If its by losing access to waller or private keys , then yes. Close to 0.4 BTC after I made a new wallet sent money to it, and before my end of the day backup my laptop crashed. Lost it all :/

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Quote from: NyeFe on June 04, 2016, 03:17:07 PM

How, and how much did you manage to lose?

the important thing is how to move on from the defeat. no matter how big your losses. The most needed is to move on so that you quickly forget the defeat. because it was very painful

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Quote from: PeRo on June 04, 2016, 03:32:50 PM

I do not get into that circle as I didn't lose any Bitcoins. If it counts, I only lost 0.0005 I on purpose when my Bitcoin Core wallet needed to download 60gb of data and I didn't want to wait that much since my network isn't anything special.

You dont need to synchronize Bitcoin Core wallet, just get the private key of the address inside Bitcoin Core and import it to any other wallet you use

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A big part of people here are gamblers, and of course, they lost money. Besides that, many people lost because of no backups, getting scammed and other.

I do not get into that circle as I didn't lose any Bitcoins. If it counts, I only lost 0.0005 I on purpose when my Bitcoin Core wallet needed to download 60gb of data and I didn't want to wait that much since my network isn't anything special.

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Thank satoshi

Lost in what way? If bitcoin lost because of scams counts, I have lost over 1BTC and less than 3BTC. Even more on gambling, but I doubt that counts. I've never lost bitcoins due to of hardware failure or bad memory.

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Quote from: Lauda on June 04, 2016, 03:24:25 PM

Quote from: RocketSingh on June 04, 2016, 03:21:22 PM

Here is a story where someone lost 7500 bitcoins.

A story.

Do u mean it never happened?

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I lost around 1.2 btc last week on SatoshiDice.

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Terminated.

How do you not realize that the obvious answer to your question (in the OP) is yes? There are quite a lot of people that have lost Bitcoin through various events (e.g. theft, sending to wrong addresses, hardware failure, no wallet backups and ect.). However, fortunately I can say that I'm not one of them. I've successfully avoided a lot of problematic events such as (Mt.Gox, Inputs.io, Cryptsy) and have properly managed to keep my wallets safe and secure.

Quote from: RocketSingh on June 04, 2016, 03:21:22 PM

Here is a story where someone lost 7500 bitcoins.

A story.

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Not very much, but I used to be sloppy with saving my older wallet files, which contained some small amounts that I considered dust at the time. Same story as the hard disk discard, but not as bad monetarily. Maybe 0.02 or so.

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