Topic: I just lost my entire wallet of 13 BTC. - page 18. (Read 3347 times)
Don't be too sad, my friend, though it's hard to recover. We all know that 13 bitcoins are a lot of money. Now I can only pray that you can take back a small part of it. Give yourself a day holiday to go out with your family and hope you get better as soon as possible.
Oh my God. This is a huge amount of money, try to remember where you left the private key and you can use it to get back your BTC password. I really hope you get your money back. Try to be more careful in later times.
How could this be prevented?
It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
yes it is correct - partly. You see, the coins he tried to claim (Bitcoin Diamond and Bitcoin Private) are really shitcoins worth almost nothing, just a fraction of a percent of BTC value. But there are other BTC forks out there. They are protected by the same private keys. And they are worth a significant percent of BTC value. I would say that at least Bitcoin Cash would be worth securing together with BTC before any attempt to claim those dangerous shitcoins is made. So, the correct strategy would be to start with moving BTC to another address (controlled by you), then the same with Bitcoin Cash, then any other forks in the order of their value. It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
as an experience that never lost a coin I advise you to keep your wallet in an offline wallet. you can use an external wallet to save a wallet can use trezzor or nano ledger wallet it can be used as your savings and you will feel safe.
Wow that's a lot. I am sorry for what you experienced. Hopefully there is a way out about the problem you are facing right now.
This is very unfortunate! You should have researched on how to extract forked coins safely before embarking on doing it. I always read, collect information on how others did it and what they have to share with the rest of the community.
The only forked coin I got up to now was Bitcoin Cash, did considerable research before doing it. Created a new Electrum wallet, moved my BTC to that new wallet. Then used the old wallet to get my BCH, from there BCH was immediately moved elsewhere. I am not used that old Electrum wallet for anything now. Furthermore, as mentioned by other never put a large portion of your cryptos in one wallet, diversify that should be the norm. Take care bro.
The only forked coin I got up to now was Bitcoin Cash, did considerable research before doing it. Created a new Electrum wallet, moved my BTC to that new wallet. Then used the old wallet to get my BCH, from there BCH was immediately moved elsewhere. I am not used that old Electrum wallet for anything now. Furthermore, as mentioned by other never put a large portion of your cryptos in one wallet, diversify that should be the norm. Take care bro.
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I’m already sick to my stomach.
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just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
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I have now lost my entire life savings.
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Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
I’m already sick to my stomach.
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just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
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I have now lost my entire life savings.
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Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
As an additional warning to those that are new to the space...
If the amount of value that you are holding in crypto is such that you would be devastated if you lost it all, then you are holding too much value in crypto.
These are experimental, volatile, and risky protocols. Do not risk your mental and emotional well-being.
this is the right point. It takes substantial efforts to protect your money in crypto and once you lose them, there is no getting it back. Just keep in it the saving you can effort to lose.
How could this be prevented?
It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
Yes that's his main mistake.
If he had moved moved his coins to a different wallet/address and secured them right (this part is also important), he wouldn't have had any problems most likely. But dealing with these scam wallets in the same PC that you also hold your bitcoins, if it wasn't that scam wallet/app/program, it was going to be something else as the OP wasn't cautious enough with his stuff. There are copy/paste trojans, wallet thieves, ransomware stuff... It It wasn't this, It would be the other one.
If you are going to claim fork coins, always move your coins to another address first.
If you are going to deal with the shit you have no idea about its safety, use a Virtual Machine.
This made me feel sick, hope you recover soon. Get back on your feet as fast as you can and move on.
When one door closes, another door opens.
When one door closes, another door opens.
Cautionary Tale: I messed up. Big time. Please don’t pile on harder as I’m already sick to my stomach.
NEVER EXPOSE YOUR BTC KEYS/Seed to an forked wallet.
Two days ago, I attempted to split my BTC Diamond and BTC Private. I could not get it.
At some point, I exposed my Ledger Nano with my BTC on it, to each of their Electrum Wallets.
Last night, my wallet was emptied of ALL my BTC, 13+ coins.
Here is the transaction.
Transaction Identifier: d96a7dcd9775456e36938ed2cb84e9d0cac46fad14b8c95008ed77d08f9f8de6
Went to: 3LsvHPBGuEVLZZDUiUuNdNi33T7zmTBC7o
Here’s a signed message so you know I HAD controller of the wallet.
I’m not scamming, just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
@TheShillBilly Twitter
I've lost all my coins. Please help ANYONE. If you stole them
Please return them! Please Please Please! RT to help...
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QFFas4xGSy1p1Kj2ghyD6BJhVDmwWmyKb
H744TwI8rhqMHinDQdTtYiw3JGie9oC/p6XaUcPz25pzUcEoK0cakF0p1mBPZehnJk1PP8JgtEgte2OvDZXAr3g=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
It appears that I have now lost my entire life savings. I’m not begging for a handout but rather attempting to warn anyone new to the space. I’m sick to my stomach with the loss and my only hope is to gain the attention of the culprit.
If you have any space in your heart, please return the BTC. I’d accept a fraction of what was stolen. Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
it's terrible NEVER EXPOSE YOUR BTC KEYS/Seed to an forked wallet.
Two days ago, I attempted to split my BTC Diamond and BTC Private. I could not get it.
At some point, I exposed my Ledger Nano with my BTC on it, to each of their Electrum Wallets.
Last night, my wallet was emptied of ALL my BTC, 13+ coins.
Here is the transaction.
Transaction Identifier: d96a7dcd9775456e36938ed2cb84e9d0cac46fad14b8c95008ed77d08f9f8de6
Went to: 3LsvHPBGuEVLZZDUiUuNdNi33T7zmTBC7o
Here’s a signed message so you know I HAD controller of the wallet.
I’m not scamming, just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
@TheShillBilly Twitter
I've lost all my coins. Please help ANYONE. If you stole them
Please return them! Please Please Please! RT to help...
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QFFas4xGSy1p1Kj2ghyD6BJhVDmwWmyKb
H744TwI8rhqMHinDQdTtYiw3JGie9oC/p6XaUcPz25pzUcEoK0cakF0p1mBPZehnJk1PP8JgtEgte2OvDZXAr3g=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
It appears that I have now lost my entire life savings. I’m not begging for a handout but rather attempting to warn anyone new to the space. I’m sick to my stomach with the loss and my only hope is to gain the attention of the culprit.
If you have any space in your heart, please return the BTC. I’d accept a fraction of what was stolen. Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
it's much more than amount many people in developing countries can make through their life.but I don't understand how you can lost it as you said you kept it in your ledger. How can hacker sign for that transaction?
don't beg scammer or hacker they never care about you. they should go to the helll
do not be agan. one of the best friends and the one who taught me. about the bitcoin digital world. he also lost 63 bitcon. because the error is not too fatal. because of its HP. in play by the child .
aww ...that's really bad...but if someone stole this he is not going to give you .You should realise that.
How could this be prevented?
It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
It seems like his problem was he didn't move his BTC first right? If he had moved his Bitcoin to a different wallet first, then he could have safely used the private key on the previous wallet to get the forked coins since that BTC wallet would be empty at that point. Is my logic correct on that?
Wow thats horrible. That is the nightmare scenario for any crypto user...make a mistake and get hacked and lose all your money. Sorry it happened to the OP.
I wouldn't even bother with all these forks for a while. They aren't worth much and if you have your coins in long term storage there's no reason to bother with that small extra amount of money. May as well keep them and when at some later time you are moving your coins to sell them then bother with trying to get the forks.
I wouldn't even bother with all these forks for a while. They aren't worth much and if you have your coins in long term storage there's no reason to bother with that small extra amount of money. May as well keep them and when at some later time you are moving your coins to sell them then bother with trying to get the forks.
do you keep it in 1 same purse? it should be the worst you have anticipated by dividing your assets on some wallets or exchange, or you sell some of your bitcoin on fiat money and keep it in your account, I'm more secure
That was really huge amount of bitcoin, I'm sorry for your lose. From my view I think that it's impossible to get that bitcoin back. Next time be more careful and try to hold your bitcoin on Ledger wallet and don't share your btc seed.
I think that it's not the same to lose $4000 and $117 000.. btw. do you remember guy which pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza , how he feel now?
If it makes you feel any better, I blew 20 BTC on a hand of Seals poker. Of course, that was years ago and the coins were worth $200 or so. 
I think that it's not the same to lose $4000 and $117 000.. btw. do you remember guy which pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza , how he feel now?
Lol yeah if you feel bad about it, and you probably should be because that amount in btc by far is not a laughing matter, there are people who've lost way more in the past. I don't think there's a way to retrieve those so take it a life lesson. Just don't let that discourage you in getting into bitcoin since you can very well earn that again.
13 Bitcoin is very huge amount of money, sorry for the loss man, everythings gonna be alright not now but very soon, hope this experience gives you a lesson and become verycareful, better to watch and read about the security of the cryptowallet. Dont loss hope.
it is very unfortunate in losing 13btc even i lost 7 BTC in an Ponzi trading program when i brought btc it is 1000 dollars and when i lost BTC was 6000 dollars you can imagine the pain I went through
Ouch. I only hold my Bitcoin wallet dat on my flash disks with Electrum software. I would avoid all forks since many are scams.
Cautionary Tale: I messed up. Big time. Please don’t pile on harder as I’m already sick to my stomach.
NEVER EXPOSE YOUR BTC KEYS/Seed to an forked wallet.
Two days ago, I attempted to split my BTC Diamond and BTC Private. I could not get it.
At some point, I exposed my Ledger Nano with my BTC on it, to each of their Electrum Wallets.
Last night, my wallet was emptied of ALL my BTC, 13+ coins.
Here is the transaction.
Transaction Identifier: d96a7dcd9775456e36938ed2cb84e9d0cac46fad14b8c95008ed77d08f9f8de6
Went to: 3LsvHPBGuEVLZZDUiUuNdNi33T7zmTBC7o
Here’s a signed message so you know I HAD controller of the wallet.
I’m not scamming, just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
@TheShillBilly Twitter
I've lost all my coins. Please help ANYONE. If you stole them
Please return them! Please Please Please! RT to help...
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QFFas4xGSy1p1Kj2ghyD6BJhVDmwWmyKb
H744TwI8rhqMHinDQdTtYiw3JGie9oC/p6XaUcPz25pzUcEoK0cakF0p1mBPZehnJk1PP8JgtEgte2OvDZXAr3g=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
It appears that I have now lost my entire life savings. I’m not begging for a handout but rather attempting to warn anyone new to the space. I’m sick to my stomach with the loss and my only hope is to gain the attention of the culprit.
If you have any space in your heart, please return the BTC. I’d accept a fraction of what was stolen. Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
NEVER EXPOSE YOUR BTC KEYS/Seed to an forked wallet.
Two days ago, I attempted to split my BTC Diamond and BTC Private. I could not get it.
At some point, I exposed my Ledger Nano with my BTC on it, to each of their Electrum Wallets.
Last night, my wallet was emptied of ALL my BTC, 13+ coins.
Here is the transaction.
Transaction Identifier: d96a7dcd9775456e36938ed2cb84e9d0cac46fad14b8c95008ed77d08f9f8de6
Went to: 3LsvHPBGuEVLZZDUiUuNdNi33T7zmTBC7o
Here’s a signed message so you know I HAD controller of the wallet.
I’m not scamming, just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
@TheShillBilly Twitter
I've lost all my coins. Please help ANYONE. If you stole them
Please return them! Please Please Please! RT to help...
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QFFas4xGSy1p1Kj2ghyD6BJhVDmwWmyKb
H744TwI8rhqMHinDQdTtYiw3JGie9oC/p6XaUcPz25pzUcEoK0cakF0p1mBPZehnJk1PP8JgtEgte2OvDZXAr3g=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
It appears that I have now lost my entire life savings. I’m not begging for a handout but rather attempting to warn anyone new to the space. I’m sick to my stomach with the loss and my only hope is to gain the attention of the culprit.
If you have any space in your heart, please return the BTC. I’d accept a fraction of what was stolen. Please don’t completely bankrupt me.
I don't understand, was your computer compromised, is that it?
Are any of those wallets you use compromised?
He exposed his private key while trying to claim his coins through a malicious wallet.
I'm sorry for your brother, many of the older members have lost a lot more btc in the past, you have to try to see past it at some point and keep at it.
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