Topic: I used to own 10,000 bitcoin... here is how I lost it all. (Read 782 times)
I won'y give you any advice since you don't want our sympathy. But I do like your story. I know it's a story of a bad experience, and spilling it all out is a good thing even in this kind of way. I did not lose thousands or hundreds of Bitcoins but I lost some money from bad strategy of trading way back at the time I was starting. And I wanna let others know it too. You are an inspiration even that caused you much depression. You are still alive. And many altcoins are just around. It's not too late. Ooops! I said I was not gonna give you advice, wish you great peace of mind, brother.
I can't imagine how you are feeling , but there are many others like you. One guy was even searching in the junkyard for his old hard drive, others lost it in mtgox or the same way you did. It still must suck but maybe you can find some salvation there.
Really sad mate you have all my support with all my heart! Hope God will help you ti find this pen drive, if not you will have other opportunity i am sure!
Consumerism at its worst! Throwing out a laptop, a piece of electronic that is technological miracle on it's own! Even broken laptop contains spare parts that can be used to repair many other laptops. I never have thrown out any of my computers or any electronic device. From my first AMD Duron system to Core2Duo rig, it is all next to me, including 450CDs and 50 hard drives from past. Only lost data to forgotten encryption key, but it was biological failure, not technological.
I also once had a lot of bitcoins that I lost to short sighted purchase. Had I held them till today, I would not be unemployed and poor guy I am now.
I also once had a lot of bitcoins that I lost to short sighted purchase. Had I held them till today, I would not be unemployed and poor guy I am now.
While I can forgive him that he wanted to get rid of an old piece of junk that was most likely broken anyway, I can't forgive someone who at the very least touched cryptography to throw out a data storage device. Remember kids, drives contain sensitive data. You don't want everybody to know your bank login and password, your purchase history, have all your spicy photos and know what turns you on. Drives should be either destroyed or kept. I prefer to keep them.
Your story can be a great example and incentive for those who are now in doubt about investing in bitcoin. It is just beginning to really develop and its price will be much, much more than now.
@OP i could understand your pain as there are many people who lost that much coin because they were busy with life or the computer broke down or simply ignore following the market because you never took it serious and now you cannot find your private key. I sold many coins at cheap price before the market getting attraction and even i do have coins in my old hard disk ,but i cannot find my notepad where i saved the seed and password,but i am trying my best to sort my trash contents which i recovered ,you just have to move on and start from the beginning and that is the only thing you can do,rather than crying about the past.
Move ahead. such experience prepare us for greatness but, it depends on you.
There are lot of opportunities within and outside the bitcoin niche In most case, people can see them as opportunity until they are realized by someone else.
This reminder about the foundation of facebook. The idea behind this network was not directly from Zukerberg but, being part of the other two guys, he visualize the idea and took action.
Final note: if, possible try locating the pendrive where the seller had installed the code
Thanks
There are lot of opportunities within and outside the bitcoin niche In most case, people can see them as opportunity until they are realized by someone else.
This reminder about the foundation of facebook. The idea behind this network was not directly from Zukerberg but, being part of the other two guys, he visualize the idea and took action.
Final note: if, possible try locating the pendrive where the seller had installed the code
Thanks
what good will finding the pendrive do? i have no idea where it is.there is a small chance i still have it but it is likely someone in my family tossed it or lost it as it was a cheap used usb stick.
Tell yourself the truth - you're carefree with things if not life, other than that, you'd not have complete forgotten about Bitcoin 2010 - 2014 and you would have just remembered to copy those files like every of your other important documents before discarding the pc and that exonerates your mum from blame. A graduate in the US, cannot be helpless with shitty jobs! If what you said above are for really, what you must do is to learn the lesson and move on, opportunities never ceases, only we might need to climb a bit higher or dig dipper from where we were, to be able to spot new ones.
Move ahead. such experience prepare us for greatness but, it depends on you.
There are lot of opportunities within and outside the bitcoin niche In most case, people can see them as opportunity until they are realized by someone else.
This reminder about the foundation of facebook. The idea behind this network was not directly from Zukerberg but, being part of the other two guys, he visualize the idea and took action.
Final note: if, possible try locating the pendrive where the seller had installed the code
Thanks
There are lot of opportunities within and outside the bitcoin niche In most case, people can see them as opportunity until they are realized by someone else.
This reminder about the foundation of facebook. The idea behind this network was not directly from Zukerberg but, being part of the other two guys, he visualize the idea and took action.
Final note: if, possible try locating the pendrive where the seller had installed the code
Thanks
Then if not mark zukerberg then why he is the owner now? He is very rich people now.
However, learning from experience make better. Experienceis is the best teacher so learn from it make you better
Whether this story is real or fake it should be a valuable lesson to us all. No, not that you should have kept all 10,000 and became a multi-millionaire, but to let go of the past! I personally have a very hard time of doing so. I always have. I think of family members whom were taken advantage of by "financial advisors" and what I could have done better to help save them. I think of all the money I've lost making poor investments, whether it was because I was sloppy about investing or things simply didn't pan out.
Whatever it might be if you live in the past you're likely going to die there. It sucks, it'll burn and you'll want to let rip you apart at times believing it's what you deserve, but it's not. Whether it's the loss of money, and X-gf, whatever...life still goes on and can be amazing. We all die with nothing don't forget that. Accumulating wealth is great but it doesn't last forever and it doesn't equal happiness. Fight on is the moral here.
Whatever it might be if you live in the past you're likely going to die there. It sucks, it'll burn and you'll want to let rip you apart at times believing it's what you deserve, but it's not. Whether it's the loss of money, and X-gf, whatever...life still goes on and can be amazing. We all die with nothing don't forget that. Accumulating wealth is great but it doesn't last forever and it doesn't equal happiness. Fight on is the moral here.
All you can do is move on! I know it sucks, but everyone has a "woulda-coulda-shoulda" story. Unfortunately we don't know the future so we all do things that we look back on and wish we wouldn't have.
Consumerism at its worst! Throwing out a laptop, a piece of electronic that is technological miracle on it's own! Even broken laptop contains spare parts that can be used to repair many other laptops. I never have thrown out any of my computers or any electronic device. From my first AMD Duron system to Core2Duo rig, it is all next to me, including 450CDs and 50 hard drives from past. Only lost data to forgotten encryption key, but it was biological failure, not technological.
I also once had a lot of bitcoins that I lost to short sighted purchase. Had I held them till today, I would not be unemployed and poor guy I am now.
I also once had a lot of bitcoins that I lost to short sighted purchase. Had I held them till today, I would not be unemployed and poor guy I am now.
I understand your regret but you are really thinking too much. Just forget that thing. Why to waste your precious life over something you can't have now. Cherish what you have now. Do not resent over what you could have.
Crazy story. Do you still own the usb key and did you try a file recover software ?
BTW, don't blame you, I just want to say that if you took care of these BTC, you would had already sold them a long time ago. Even with a BTC at 10$, or even 1$, you would have sold them, because nobody could have prediced this infatuation, and you would be already happy with a profit like this one. You know, that's the same with ETH. At the ICO price (or not ICO, I don't remember what was the good term when they did the presale), 1 BTC was equal to 1667 ETH. This wasn't expensive, and currently I know nobody who still have an amount of this kind of ETH.
Almost nobody still hold the amount he bought some years ago. So forget about it, just ask you this question : if you had these BTC, for which value would you had sold them ? And the answer is easy, this is not 20k$, not even 1k$, and not even 100$, but something really under. So no, even if you didn't lose your wallet, you wouldn't be that rich.
Keep on, the true richness isn't about money.
BTW, don't blame you, I just want to say that if you took care of these BTC, you would had already sold them a long time ago. Even with a BTC at 10$, or even 1$, you would have sold them, because nobody could have prediced this infatuation, and you would be already happy with a profit like this one. You know, that's the same with ETH. At the ICO price (or not ICO, I don't remember what was the good term when they did the presale), 1 BTC was equal to 1667 ETH. This wasn't expensive, and currently I know nobody who still have an amount of this kind of ETH.
Almost nobody still hold the amount he bought some years ago. So forget about it, just ask you this question : if you had these BTC, for which value would you had sold them ? And the answer is easy, this is not 20k$, not even 1k$, and not even 100$, but something really under. So no, even if you didn't lose your wallet, you wouldn't be that rich.
Keep on, the true richness isn't about money.
Numerous individuals could be in an indistinguishable circumstance from you are yet simply observe the things as they may be: you didn't lose millions. You lost just your venture
Nah, he lost his Bitcoins. He doesn't have any Bitcoins anymore so he lost that, he could purchase more Bitcoins if he needed to restart.
Bitcoin never ruin your life bro and your mom is never to be blamed for any reason, you ruined your own life out of your ignorance, and I can tell that this ignorant still lives in you for saying that bitcoin ruin your life, instead of you to admitte that your lost can out of your ignorance.
You know of bitcoin back in 2010 and you are still broken up till now. Please gather your broken piece that you have left and move on.
You can start participating on bounty campaigns and if you can do this for straight 12months I think you will be all good
You know of bitcoin back in 2010 and you are still broken up till now. Please gather your broken piece that you have left and move on.
You can start participating on bounty campaigns and if you can do this for straight 12months I think you will be all good
Hi,
there is a spreadsheet showing dormant BTC addresses https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xTROekDerP1TPOB3SOD_1bbQr580BPqbhF3YHdO96pw/edit#gid=189298223
It shows only 3 addresses with 10 000 BTC in 2010, in december.
This spreadsheets seems valuable till 2015, as you see all these 3 adresses are empty now.
1. https://blockchain.info/fr/charts/balance?address=1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1×pan=all
2. https://blockchain.info/fr/address/12dUggmXPYsPVHaHr1DoW5J6bb6gvh4yZq
3. https://blockchain.info/address/1Du2jAQsBQnkkVZkN4oqC46tS78k7WMkVq
Can it be that your roomates kept your private keys ?
there is a spreadsheet showing dormant BTC addresses https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xTROekDerP1TPOB3SOD_1bbQr580BPqbhF3YHdO96pw/edit#gid=189298223
It shows only 3 addresses with 10 000 BTC in 2010, in december.
This spreadsheets seems valuable till 2015, as you see all these 3 adresses are empty now.
1. https://blockchain.info/fr/charts/balance?address=1JtpgqCf3SSeCeYWEDJjkfYFH7Ruhy4Vp1×pan=all
2. https://blockchain.info/fr/address/12dUggmXPYsPVHaHr1DoW5J6bb6gvh4yZq
3. https://blockchain.info/address/1Du2jAQsBQnkkVZkN4oqC46tS78k7WMkVq
Can it be that your roomates kept your private keys ?
Nice FAKE story ha ha. Prove what you said by providing bitcoin address and dates of transaction. Otherwise you are a liar.
It look real to me, and since he forgot he owned coins for like 3 years you can't expect him to have a link to the transaction stored somewhere safe. This could have happened to any of us and OP isn't gaining anything by posting this.
Yes blame bitcoin for ruining your life yes do that...
Dude blame your mom for throwing your pc out that was stupid.
Dude blame your mom for throwing your pc out that was stupid.
Great advice. Make him blame his mom for cleaning the house of old junk like that Broken PC he forgot about and threw somewhere in a box along with other trash.
Make the poor woman that's taking care of him and cooking his meals (as he's living with his parents) be the one to blame for his incompetence.
I started reading expecting to feel sympathy, skimmed and had some wise words for you.... then i backed up a bit and re-read... you were out of college, living at home and had mommy looking after you so much to throw out your stuff? I have no sympathy and some other wise words, Grow up and take responsibility for yourself.
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