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Cardano

$0.80

Bitcoin

$97,523.00

Ethereum

$3,140.20

Litecoin

$86.58

Bitcoin Cash

$493.74

2024

Theft

Malone Lam and Jeandiel Serrano stole 4,100 Bitcoin (about $230 million) using social engineering, laundered the funds through crypto exchanges, and spent the proceeds on luxury items.

$399,844,300.00

4,100 Bitcoin

2018

Bad Trade

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

$390.09

0.004 Bitcoin

2018

Hardware Failure

An investor lost 30 BTC after buying a second-hand Ledger with compromised security.

$2,925,690.00

30 Bitcoin

2017

Collectible Purchase

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

$157,010.00

50 Ethereum

2017

Transfer Error

Sent to wrong address :(

$53,345.08

0.547 Bitcoin

2017

Expensive Gift

Bought myself and my GH iPhone X and then of course ethereum doubles over the next two weeks.

$20,411.30

6.5 Ethereum

2017

Wallet Error

Wanted to claim them from Exodus but transacted it to a BTC wallet, not to a BCH Wallet...

$246.87

0.5 Bitcoin Cash

2017

Phishing

Fake/Phishing bitaddress.org website (bittaddress.org - not double 't')

$1,170.28

0.012 Bitcoin

2016

Theft

Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested for laundering $4.5 billion in stolen bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex hack.

$11,702,760,000.00

120,000 Bitcoin

2016

Panic Sold

Was noob, panic sold

$1,125.54

13 Litecoin

2016

Lost Access

An anonymous user lost access to a wallet with 2,600 BTC since 2011.

$253,559,800.00

2,600 Bitcoin

2015

Bad Purchase

Bought a 256gb SSD because i thought BTC had stabilized around $300. Still use it, probably the dumbest thing i ever bought

$34,133.05

0.35 Bitcoin

2015

Hardware Failure

Hard drive formatted :/

$195,046.00

2 Bitcoin

2014

Bad Investment

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

$7,368,837.88

75.56 Bitcoin

2014

Accident

I got high on LSD and had a bad trip, causing me to go crazy and set my laptop on fire. I thought my laptop was garden gnome, that was trying to kill me. FML

$975,230,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2013

Bad Purchase

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

$78,018.40

0.8 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

Wallet lost, who knew it would go up so high...

$48,761.50

0.5 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC.

$731,422,500.00

7,500 Bitcoin

2012

Lost Access

Lost wallet

$1,170,276.00

12 Bitcoin

2012

Exchange Loss

GOXXXXED

$1,121,514.50

11.5 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Lost in harddrive malfunction

$2,828,167.00

29 Bitcoin

2011

Bad Purchase

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

$39,009,200.00

400 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

$78,018,400.00

800 Bitcoin

2010

Forgotten Funds

Got 3500 of it with mining. Totally forgot about it, bought new pc... realized it too late

$341,330,500.00

3,500 Bitcoin

2009

Missed Opportunity

Buddy offered me a thousand bitcoin in exchange for rent, told him to take his magic internet money and get out. He is now millionaire.

$97,523,000.00

1,000 Bitcoin

2009

Bad Purchase

Bought drugs on silkroad, retrospectively the most expensive drugs i ever bought...

$2,730,644.00

28 Bitcoin