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Topic: Have you ever lost access to your Bitcoins? - page 4. (Read 1009 times)

sr. member
Activity: 1593
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I never lost any bitcoins because of my own mistake but I have lost some because of others mistakes. Basically it was my mother's mistake and while I regret her mistake I cannot even think of blaming her because she was completely unaware of what she had done.

I kept my private word phrases written on a paper and kept in my personal desk where I used to keep a lot of other papers too, while I was away my mum decided to clean my room and she actually thought that paper was nothing but another piece of garbage and she burnt it with other papers in the backyard and I cannot even remember how much bitcoins was there because that wallet was just to save money for the next 10 years.
full member
Activity: 574
Merit: 102
What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?
Fortunately, I never lost my Bitcoins. I do not store my wallet in one place, I have many reserves. Which I advise everyone to do. Wink
hero member
Activity: 2086
Merit: 501
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I experienced this when I was a beginner in Cryptocurrencies when I was curious about wallets and where to store my earnings. So when I found that it was safer to put it in a Decentralized wallet this is what I used.
Almost many of us have experienced this, losing a copy of our Private keys. So here I know it needs to be taken care of as this is the only way I can reopen my wallet again.
sr. member
Activity: 966
Merit: 274
I only experience forgetting the pin and the password of my blockchain wallet because i have never opened my wallet since the year of march 2019 until august 2019 that i have been holding and waiting for the price of bitcoin to increased that time. Good thing i saved a document that i enlisted all of my password in my social media accounts, email account, and wallets.
sr. member
Activity: 2506
Merit: 368
No, actually I am still using the same wallet I use the first time I have my first bitcoin.
It is a mobile wallet exclusive only in my country and what I do to protect it is, I never expose it to anyone and remain as my main wallet where I store and save enough bitcoins for the future bull run.
It should but don't just be a hundred confidence the safety of your wallet unless you've been done with 2FA to further increase the safeguard of your wallet.
I once experienced when I woke up early morning I've found notification that someone wants to transfer funds from my wallet. I believe it was a hack (coz I don't make it) and luckily, that person never succeeds because it needs 2FA to confirm.

It was really important and putting our funds in online wallet is never been safe and that is the risk that we might prevent but can't really be avoided. It was our luck if we don't get to that problem otherwise, it is totally be lost forever.
Could it be you login to a different computer in the past and the hacker just finding the right time to make the move that's why it is better to not just put some 2FA but to change your password frequently to avoid the hacker to login to your details again when it is just finding the right time. I am doing it frequently because I am always worried that maybe the hacker is just finding the right time to login that's why I don't give them the chance to do it.
sr. member
Activity: 542
Merit: 251
This is probably one of the most unforgettable experiences I had ever since I started engaging with cryptocurrencies. I had just merely started exploring how things work in this forum and I have realized that coin storage is one of the things that I must think of having before starting to send out applications for signature campaigns and such. Due to the research that I have been making that time, I was bombarded with so much information, it slipped into my mind to save private keys and some authentication data especially for wallet recovery. I'm lucky enough to experience it earlier before I even started putting coins into my wallet. From then on, I became very vigilant in the information I am putting in each of my account, wallet or in any online profile, and to not forget saving these data in safe place.
full member
Activity: 1638
Merit: 122
 so far i havent experienced this horible situation  . i can still access my bitcoin wallet properly because i keep the private keys , seeds and other methods to access the wallet on a safe place  ( on my laptop , usb flash drive , cell phone )  i also memorize my password  and usernames because there are bitcoin wallet that i use that needs password and username  . 

to someone that lost access to thier wallet,  we cant blame them because its normal that there are times you forgot or you missplaced your stuffs no matter how organized you are  .
sr. member
Activity: 1148
Merit: 251
Gladly I never encounter losing access to my bitcoin wallet. As much as possible I have a back up all of my private keys in case I lost it. If we ever think of our btc that we have and a sudden lost we cannot retrieve it once your phrase or keys lost. It's very important to have our assets to be kept all the time.
hero member
Activity: 2366
Merit: 594
I have never lost an access to my wallet. I have been using my wallet for years now and I'm glad that I was able to handle it well. Keeping our private keys safe and being mindful of our actions are the secret so we'll never lost even a single amount of crypto. However, there are unnecessary circumstances where we mistakenly or accidentally lost our access to our wallets but we could learn from those experiences. Things will always rely on how responsible we are when it comes to handling our wallets as well as our funds.
legendary
Activity: 3234
Merit: 5637
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Not your keys, not your coins.

True and false at the same time. Having complete control over your private keys does not mean that you will not lose that control at any time, what has happened to many and is still happening today, and there is no doubt that it will continue in the future.

Personally, I'm not surprised at those who lost their private keys at a time when BTC could be mined with a regular computer, or you could buy 500 BTC for a few bucks, or get 5 BTC on a single claim on faucets. They can say, "easy come, easy go" given that they have invested very little value in order to get into Bitcoin, but they may be sorry that they did not recognize the potential behind the technology, because in that case they would have completely different treatment of their private keys, wallet files and passwords.

I never lost access to my coins, and I always try to improve my chances that this never happens, and to point out to others that they must pay close attention to the way they treat their investment.
hero member
Activity: 2828
Merit: 518
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No, actually I am still using the same wallet I use the first time I have my first bitcoin.
It is a mobile wallet exclusive only in my country and what I do to protect it is, I never expose it to anyone and remain as my main wallet where I store and save enough bitcoins for the future bull run.
It should but don't just be a hundred confidence the safety of your wallet unless you've been done with 2FA to further increase the safeguard of your wallet.
I once experienced when I woke up early morning I've found notification that someone wants to transfer funds from my wallet. I believe it was a hack (coz I don't make it) and luckily, that person never succeeds because it needs 2FA to confirm.

It was really important and putting our funds in online wallet is never been safe and that is the risk that we might prevent but can't really be avoided. It was our luck if we don't get to that problem otherwise, it is totally be lost forever.
sr. member
Activity: 1022
Merit: 277
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No, actually I am still using the same wallet I use the first time I have my first bitcoin.
It is a mobile wallet exclusive only in my country and what I do to protect it is, I never expose it to anyone and remain as my main wallet where I store and save enough bitcoins for the future bull run.
sr. member
Activity: 896
Merit: 268
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Yes, I have lost access to my Bitcoin few times before. When I wasn't that much experienced in bitcoin trading, I used to trade in sites that were not trusted and also not very secure. I’ve lost millions of my Raiblocks MRI token (XRB) on BitGrail exchange. From then, I always try to search the ratings and feedbacks of the site and then trade my coins.
actually it is really a good practice . You must review and have a proper research whenever you are accessing a different websites like trading platform or exchanges or anything that has need to login your accounts that has binded on your wallets and etc. This must really need a proper research and good ratings are positive feedbacks by other users and order for you to convince that this website is legit one in order to oh if it is secure or not.
legendary
Activity: 2996
Merit: 1136
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Yes, I have lost access to my Bitcoin few times before. When I wasn't that much experienced in bitcoin trading, I used to trade in sites that were not trusted and also not very secure. I’ve lost millions of my Raiblocks MRI token (XRB) on BitGrail exchange. From then, I always try to search the ratings and feedbacks of the site and then trade my coins.
sr. member
Activity: 1596
Merit: 335
My first wallet, i generate it and i forget where i put the private key.

What have you tried to retrieve them?
Just checking where i put my private key, but can't find it, so i gave up.

I have the same experience and honestly, it's really frustrating. I have tried to think of different ways just to remember my private keys just to access my old wallet account but I didn't make it so I gave up as well. That's a lesson learn for me that I shouldn't be mindful of my private keys and that it should be kept as an important treasure. I wish I could turn back time so I could recover the earnings that I have lost.
hero member
Activity: 2828
Merit: 611
What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?
I haven't lost access to bitcoins like that but I remember when I was new to bitcoins I was first introduced to blockchain.info and I made a new wallet there with some temporary email because I didn't knew giving my mail email id was safe and worth it. Then after a few days when I tried to login, it said that an email has been sent to your email since you are logging in from new browser and since I used a temporary email I actually could never open my wallet again but I don't know if I had any bitcoins left over because I did some work as a freelancer and got paid in bitcoins which I believe I sold right away after keeping in blockchain wallet for little while.

I still wonder if some BTC are there but not quite sure and absolutely no way to retrieve them.
legendary
Activity: 3542
Merit: 1352
My electrum wallet with a few bits in it. This was back in 2015 when I happened to lost the backup file on that particular wallet. For all I know, I saved that on 3 sifferent pendrives but lo and behold, all 3 of them were reformatted and I haven't got the chance to recover the said file. It took a couple of months before I stumbled upon a wallet file on my SD card and to my surprise, it was a backup of that same wallet. Sure enough, there weren't anything big to lose but then again, it's my history in that wallet.
legendary
Activity: 2632
Merit: 1094
I got hacked because I installed an unknown wallet whose owner was trustworthy but turned out to be a scammer. Lost $150 in the hack in 2017. I also lost access to my coinbase wallet as for some unknown reason I couldn't login with 2FA but since the wallet was empty, I did not bother but coinbase is not trustworthy as such 3rd-party wallets act as if your money is theirs and freeze your account. 1xapo did the same after which I had to verify myself and access my account.

hero member
Activity: 1273
Merit: 507
I  lose some Bitcoin because I Store all crypto in one app.
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What you need to do is always careful in choosing wallet and much better to use wallet that you hold your private key
When you lost access to your bitcoin wallet try to contact with support team of your exchange account, before late you can ask him about your trouble and they will try to resolve all your terrible with bitcoin and altcoin exchange account.
Well,  some problems can't solved especially if we using Decentralized Wallet,  those wallet that we hold our private key because if we lose our privatekeys we cannot access again our wallet.  That's why always have back up copy of this and don't tell to other your private key because they can access our wallet.
hero member
Activity: 2702
Merit: 540
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What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?
Ive tried it once but luckily it is just a small amounts of coins stored on an online wallet and ran away all of the funds.
Retreiving it back? Theres no way on doing that once you have lost then its lost forever. This is why its important that
we should store out coins and keep its PK away from other people.As said, not your keys then not your coins.

Ive lost once when im still newbie but it did never happen once again.
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