Topic: Your Worst/Unluckiest noob mistake with BTC (Read 3830 times)
I was holding 100+ bitcoins last summer. Got rid of them not long after. Obviously kicking myself when the price exploded. But that's life I guess.
Selling my bitcoins for well under the ask price.
bought a ncie share of bitcoins back in the day. formatted computer. FML
My biggest mistake was ignoring bitcoins when they were $1-10 and a buddy of mine was trying to convince me to invest in them. Back then I never imagined they would come as far as they have today.
I was all in on BTC and was about to sell at ~$240, but decided to wait a few more days.
Lesson learned should be to sell in increments on rises, not to put all your eggs in one basket
Bought one BTC for $250. 
Bought BTC 2 weeks ago when it was at $260... It has never reached that level again... And I had lost 75% of my investment in 2 days time...
Deleting a Virtual Machine with 5 coins left in wallet.
loosing 2 btc on an old usb stick that gave up 
This is why I personally prefer online wallets like blockchain.info. I know they have their disadvantages too, but I'd rather have my coins in an account than a file.
I was asleep and woke up when mtgox hit ~260 and i went back to sleep only to wake up to anarchy.. Should have gotten out of bed and sold!
loosing 2 btc on an old usb stick that gave up
some of these have cost alot of people alot of money :/
Deleting a Virtual Machine with 5 coins left in wallet.
Not being suspicious of people who take on more than 2+ loans that are quite big.
Trying my hand at playing the alt coin market on btc-e. I am terrible at it.
Yes, my point being, what are you actually going to do when you meet this guy? Do you seriously think you will be able to get bitcoins out of him?
In my head I see someone being shaken till Bitcoins fall out of him but I suspect this isn't how it happens in real life.
Excuse me as I don't know the history of this story, but isn't this what the police are for? Should be possible to prove fraud in this case?
But, this is bitcoin.
Even the police could have the world's biggest pile of $5 wrenches, but I highly doubt even they would be able to get your bitcoins back.
My biggest mistake is that I did not buy BitCoin when it was almost worthless... lol
I was all in on BTC and was about to sell at ~$240, but decided to wait a few more days. Ended up cashing most of it out at around $130. I hedged what I still had in for a few days on bitfloor, and went all cash right before they closed. Now I'm waiting to get my $2k out. Not as bad as it could have been though if I didn't cash out everything else first.
Not buying ASICMINER shares I was offered at 0.3BTC each - I thought x3 IPO price was "a tad too much", what a fool I was 
I wish I had heard about it, and gotten into it sooner.
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why don't you guys pay him a visit?
i don't see whats holding you back.
i would hunt him down for far less.
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In New Jersey, we would make him an offer he can't refuse.
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