Topic: Have you ever been stolen or lost your BTC? - page 6. (Read 1184 times)
I once lost the bitcoin I owned and it happened a few months ago, I sent bitcoin to my wallet connected to my smartphone, but when I was on the road without my knowledge my assets were lost and the thieves sent to other wallets, I felt phished in my smartphone.
Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
Where did you save or hold your bitcoin assets now? did you save your bitcoin in exchange wallet or you save your assets in ledger wallet, I think you can safe your assets bitcoin any where is safety for exchange wallet you have use big or popular exchange have higher trusted score like Binance or Bittre and gate io, but for ledger wallet is very safety for save you bitcoin assets for long time. There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
The hacker never stole my BTC.
lol . maybe he didnt like your btc ? but how much balance do you own on your online wallet or on online accounts ? if its not that big , hackers wont be interested on it . i only kept a small balance on my crypto wallet and i dont also got hacked because the balance that i hodl were only small . But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.
oh that was bad . he didnt have an anti virus ? he should have scan the file at the first place . its still his own fault on why he lost his coins because he believe on random offers which should ignored at the first place . 8k usd is kinda bit big but he lost it totally , he should learnt his lesson by there
The hacker never stole my BTC.
lol . maybe he didnt like your btc ? but how much balance do you own on your online wallet or on online accounts ? if its not that big , hackers wont be interested on it . i only kept a small balance on my crypto wallet and i dont also got hacked because the balance that i hodl were only small . But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.
oh that was bad . he didnt have an anti virus ? he should have scan the file at the first place . its still his own fault on why he lost his coins because he believe on random offers which should ignored at the first place . 8k usd is kinda bit big but he lost it totally , he should learnt his lesson by there
The hacker never stole my BTC. But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.
everyone must have known that when I first learned about bitcoin until now I would have experienced bitcoin theft, some time ago I lost the bitcoin that I had, I was affected by the place of cloud mining and they took away the money that I invested through the cloud mining website and it turns out it was a fake mining place and finally made the bitcoin that I had disappeared instantly.
I would definitely not hold my crypto on the exchanges (at least not much); they are probably the undisputed leaders in terms of the loss of funds.
I think everyone who has been in cryptos for more than a year must have experienced some kind of fraud or theft. Many people get scammed because of fake wallets, phishing websites or fraud exchanges. I got my fund stolen by one such exchange and the amount was 1.5 btc. That exchange went down giving a reason of database issue and then they sold all the cryptos and never came back. Since then, I prefer keeping my coins in a secure wallet and never on exchange unless I am trading.
Thanks God, I have never been stolen by Hakcer. Even though I only store my altcoin assets in online wallet, I don't store my assets in hardware wallet. The thing is I also feel that my financial funds are not big, so maybe hackers are not interested in small money.
But this is also lesson for me, if I have large asset either bitcoin or altcoin I will store it in hardware wallet to be safe.
But this is also lesson for me, if I have large asset either bitcoin or altcoin I will store it in hardware wallet to be safe.
Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
Saving funds in a wallet exchange is quite dangerous because it is feared that if the exchange is hacked, the funds belonging to its members will be threatened. So it is important to choose an exchange that truly has a good reputation globally, and you must wisely understand all risks and provide multiple security.
No never although there were times I was very close to it. I had money on a number of exchanges that went bankrupt like BTCe but it was only a short time and I took everything out before they shut down. I've never been hacked and never lost coins due to hardware failure or a virus. I can call myself lucky.
I also had money in some cloud mining companies and also withdrew early before they disappeared. A lot of it was thanks to people on this forum who busted these scams and warned me.
I also had money in some cloud mining companies and also withdrew early before they disappeared. A lot of it was thanks to people on this forum who busted these scams and warned me.
Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
I haven't been robbed yet, But I lost my private keys.There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
Worse, because I was so careful it was gone. Because I wrote it on paper and I deleted all the copies on my pc. I didn't even know where it went and how I could open my wallet again. My lesson is to be careful and also keep the right mindset. And of course we have a back up so we have another option to do if we ever lose our copies of the private keys.
That's sad to hear, it happened to me as well, I lost my private key, I thought I already back up my phone, then my uncle reformat our computer, he asked me if I need my file, I was so confident and said I already have back up on my email, but when I was about to exchange my tokens then I cannot find my private key anymore. The $1k was gone.
In this scenario, I see that most of the cryptocurrency users are having their disasters based on their wallet key's or private keys not getting hacked, but getting missing. I highly suggest that they store their wallets to an external drive, or in particular, an external wallet such as ledger or trezor. Or else, risk their wallet information in a cloud based storage that might be exposed to fraudulent activities to their accounts.
I created my first bitcoin wallet via blokchain.info which is now blockchain.com and to this day i still use the same wallet and i am happy to say that i have never lost any bitcoin there. storing bitcoin where you owned the privatekeys is highly recommended and securing your privatekeys is your obligation as a holder.
It only shows how responsible you are,I have been in this community for almost 2 years and I happened to lost my btc due to my lack of responsibility for my wallet. I am confident before that it is safe since it is an online wallet and no one actually have any information of it. But I didn't expect that it can be stolen for an unknown reason, luckily I didn't put all my investment in that wallet.
I created my first bitcoin wallet via blokchain.info which is now blockchain.com and to this day i still use the same wallet and i am happy to say that i have never lost any bitcoin there. storing bitcoin where you owned the privatekeys is highly recommended and securing your privatekeys is your obligation as a holder.
Fortunately, I have never had btc stolen. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I try to protect my funds in every possible way
no way is a 100% safe, all you can do is to make things as difficult as possible for the thieve...
leaving currency on an exchange is trusting a third party with your funds and exposing yourself to attackes as exchanges are a central point for thieves to get huge amounts
having your own private keys and not keeping them online is the first step in protecting your currenccy
leaving currency on an exchange is trusting a third party with your funds and exposing yourself to attackes as exchanges are a central point for thieves to get huge amounts
having your own private keys and not keeping them online is the first step in protecting your currenccy
I've experienced were I lost my bitcoin by sending it into a wrong address and I admit that it is my fault because of lacking my awareness, and besides it is because of the reason that the wallet address is very long to memorized and that's why I failed to transfer my btc into a wrong person. There is also a friend of mine who lost btc because of the malware we're he already copy the wallet address and when he paste it into the sending platform he accidentally send it into another person who are not belong into the transactions. That malware is where you will copy your address and when you paste it, it will be a different wallet address already.
I've lost into some scam before when I was a newbie to crypto but thank God and none so far if it's about hacked wallets, I've learned from the experience of others and I applied it to myself.
Ledger Nano S still working fine on my end and I don't think I'll ever replace it although I'm aware of the new update of their release. But as long as this is still good and supported, I don't think I'll get a new one.
Ledger Nano S still working fine on my end and I don't think I'll ever replace it although I'm aware of the new update of their release. But as long as this is still good and supported, I don't think I'll get a new one.
Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?
Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?
I had some crypto at Binance, however I lost some money when it was hacked. In any case, it was unpleasant
I have a terrible experience in saving bitcoin at the exchange. At that time, I forgot to activate 2FA, which already suggested in the welcome email, and that makes me lose some bitcoin. From that, I always check and enable 2FA in every exchange, which I register because I don't want to get the same experience. Saving bitcoin in the exchange is not 100% secure because we don't know how good the exchange protect their website from the hacker or attacker. I prefer to move big money in the exchanges into a hardware wallet. In that article, I see that Ledger Nano and Trezor were mentioned, and that is the best hardware wallet you can have. It is our responsibility always to protect the asset, so we don't have to afraid of the attacker that might search a chance to penetrate our account.
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