Topic: How Bitcoin almost made me rich - page 3. (Read 833 times)

The sad part is that this is kind of an unforgivable mistake, for example I can kind of understand those that have a lost their coins when bitcoin was worth only a dollar or something like that because back then it was impossible for them to think the price was going to get so high so quickly, so I can understand why they were not as careful with their coins.

But in the case of the OP his coins were already very valuable and he should have known that a day will come when bitcoin will be way more valuable than what it was back then and still he was not careful enough to keep his coins safe.

The sad part is that this is kind of an unforgivable mistake, for example I can kind of understand those that have a lost their coins when bitcoin was worth only a dollar or something like that because back then it was impossible for them to think the price was going to get so high so quickly, so I can understand why they were not as careful with their coins.

But in the case of the OP his coins were already very valuable and he should have known that a day will come when bitcoin will be way more valuable than what it was back then and still he was not careful enough to keep his coins safe.

I don’t store my Bitcoin on the wallet that I didn’t control and every time I transfer, I’m making sure that my keys are still there and my information are still intact.

That’s a huge money mate and I understand how frustrated you are right now, and the only solution to this is to look for those keys, and hopefully there’s still chance that you can find it. This is a reminder to everyone to always protect our private keys and always put it on a safe place.

That’s so frustrating especially when Bitcoin reached almost $70k, but I don’t think there is another way to recover your investment. I have a friend who also lost his private keys and couldn’t find the written private keys too. So sorry for what happened to your PK, hopefully you’ll be able to recover them and if not I hope you are able to move on past it and probably invest again; learn from your mistakes.

That can totally change your life but not that you've lost your private keys, you have to move on and keep dreaming again until you reach that goal. This is life, we learn from our expensive experience but know that this is not the end of your life and you can always have bitcoin. Don't use any wallet if you don't know how to keep your private keys, this must be your top priority before anything else. Bitcoin can still make you rich, start over again.

Based on my little experience in the currency market four years ago, then I was still in the university then trying to make pocket money from little of my trading ideas. You know buying  a particular currency pairs at the bottom while selling at the top with few of my trading strategies like the Bollinger bands, RSI and and the moving averages.

I decided to invest in Bitcoin with the help of my new friends who are into Bitcoin trading and investments. Although at that time I didn't have substantial knowledge on how bitcoin works so, I decided to invest all my hard earn money to the extent I sold my most precious treasure which is my classical Guitar that I always use for my musical classes. Then my dream was to keep my Bitcoin for at least 1 years for it to appreciate more before selling it so I could be as rich compared to my local government chair lol. My dream!

I was working then so I decided to apply for mini jobs so as to get extra money to buy more bitcoins cause I wasn't getting enough from my currency trading. I was able to acquire 2.25 Bitcoin worth $18,000. As at 2017 one bitcoin worth about $8,000. Then the only popular crypto wallet in my region was Blockchain, so i was using it to store my Bitcoin. After a while I venture into Bitcoin investments. Never new they're all Ponzi scheme...I lost half of my Bitcoin to Ponzi scheme cos I was a novice to the cryto world.

I almost go mad when I realized that my dream of become a big boy is almost shattered. I was pain in which I couldn't think straight losing more than $9,000 worth of bitcoin. I lost focus, I couldn't continue my musical training cause my classical guitar, my enthusiasm is almost gone. I decided to dump everything about crypto currency giving it a break. I also deleted my Blockchain wallet from my phone.

Last year during the early stage of convid 19, I could remember that I had bitcoin somewhere so, I went in search of it. I reinstalled my Blockchain wallet but I couldn't logged in cos it's was asking me of my private keys. I've searched every corners, books, dairies but still couldn't find my private keys.
At least I should have not less than 1.1 bitcoin in my wallet which could worth more than $70,000. Converting this money to my country currency makes me a millionaire.

This is how my dream of becoming a millionaire was shattered by my ignorance...pls is their a narrow escape to my misfutune?

But that is much and it is really hard to accept it.

I just hope that OP still has the strength to start trading again and leave this thing as a memory to make his life going better. And this could give somewhat a lesson to everyone remembering that we have to secure our keys and that be sure that we are the one who controls our wallet, not the other person or third party services.

That can totally change your life but not that you've lost your private keys, you have to move on and keep dreaming again until you reach that goal. This is life, we learn from our expensive experience but know that this is not the end of your life and you can always have bitcoin. Don't use any wallet if you don't know how to keep your private keys, this must be your top priority before anything else. Bitcoin can still make you rich, start over again.

This is how my dream of becoming a millionaire was shattered by my ignorance...pls is their a narrow escape to my misfutune?

This is a reminder to everyone to always protect our private keys and always put it on a safe place.

I don’t store my Bitcoin on the wallet that I didn’t control and every time I transfer, I’m making sure that my keys are still there and my information are still intact.

That’s a huge money mate and I understand how frustrated you are right now, and the only solution to this is to look for those keys, and hopefully there’s still chance that you can find it. This is a reminder to everyone to always protect our private keys and always put it on a safe place.

You should always think positively. It could have turned out a lot worse. So, shake it off, add the experience/lesson to your memoir and next time you'll be much better prepared.

Also, to make you feel better, think how many others have been in your situation or even worse. These things can happen, all you can do it learn from it.