Topic: Have you lost btc at some point of the time ? What is your story - page 3. (Read 838 times)

I have never lost any BTC to any of the listed options above... Maybe because I am extra careful.
I have, however lost about 0.1 BTC when i was just getting started with futures trading mostly. At the beginning i lost some when i was learning spot trading to it was around $100.

I haven't lost BITCOINS in any amount due to scam/Ponzi and so on maybe a few BITCOIN because of trading although this is not frequently.
But I know stories of lost bitcoins.
Made this post some time ago
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55093683
It's about losing BITCOIN to traders -you tube fake traders-
I have stories about this, giving BITCOIN to FAKE traders to help trade maybe because the approach/enticed the person, but it was a scam.

Loosing and getting scammed in the crypto game is significant story to tell which makes us  stronger, I don't really think a user escapes all of these and became strong itself. Its just a step for wiser investing and nice picking.

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I have lost many sum of btc and altcoin during the time of my beginning, heavily misplaced private key containing $220, I have crazy and felt disappointed, I even fell into ponzi scheme pyramids where I lost huge sum too.
I think I am strong enough to overcome any sort of scam tricks, fake giveaways, fake wallets.

It happened 2 times, but luckily even in today's prices it was small amounts. First time, I put 0.005 BTC that I claimed from a faucet in early days to some exchange to trade alts and later it pulled an exit scam - this was in 2014. Then in 2016 when I became interested in crypto again I invested 0.01 BTC in a scam ICO. So, what you can learn from it is that a lot of services in crypto ecosystem can be scams, even if at the first glance they look totally legit. Always think twice before depositing your coins, you might never see them again.

I have only temporarily lost my Bitcoins for years. I lost access to my Blockchain wallet without any way of recovery - I had no seed, no backup phrase, nothing. Blockchain's support obviously answered my e-mails by telling me they don't hold my keys, so there was nothing they could do. Turns out I had the initial backup on one of my very old e-mails, and that's how I recovered it. The thing I learned is... not your keys, not your BTC. Expect this unfortunate thing to happen at any point without precaution.

I haven't been a victim of any hack or phishing so far but I lost some bitcoins by investing in altcoins back in the day. What happened was, the coin I bought in the exchange got delisted while my sell order was still there  I wasn't able to check in time to withdraw.

I'm also not sure with my Hitbtc and Livecoin accounts. I don't know if they deleted it for whatever reason. I remember I bought coins in there using btc but I can no longer access my exchange accounts. I didn't bother contacting support since the coin's value is really low now. Not worth the effort.

Hello,

Nowadays, we all use crypto and make a couple of transactions every other day, be it to deposit our BTC to some exchage, withdraw it from there, send to someone, or for some other service.

It is not new that we make mistakes here and there. The main cause of these mistakes is lack of knowledge. No matter how smart we are, there are always people that will try to trick us into getting us deceived.

To name a few, we are all aware of things like :

• Fake Wallets
• Ponzi Schemes
• Fake Giveaways
• Phishing Attempts to get us deceived
• Being a victim of some hack
• Investments is fake shitcoins and other fake websites

I have many threads today where have lost BTC due to unforced errors, which was mistake on thier part, few for getting deceived and tricked by someone so as to gain access over thier assets.

I know it doesn't feel good to get scammed and the feeling of it sucks. I have seen many people just register and complain about a issue in a single thread and vanish from the forum.

I want to ask all of you guys, have you lost some amount of BTC due to negligence or being a victim of some fraud. Please, let's talk about only BTC and our own experience.

You can speak out your experiences that you would normally not say out loud in the public.

Looking forward to hear some stories, let's be nice to each other and educate each other to become smarter.

To start off, I will write my own story, very long time ago, when I was significantly new to this environment, I had small amount of BTC with me which I sent to wrong address by mistake. Till date it is still on that address. I did scratch my head as to why wallet hadn't recieved it at that time and found that I had just misplaced on word after a lot of research . It was a small amount and since then I have been extra careful even while copy pasting addresses.

Thank you