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Cardano

$0.81

Bitcoin

$94,069.00

Ethereum

$3,071.96

Litecoin

$84.06

Bitcoin Cash

$444.61

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.

$385,682,900.00

4,100 Bitcoin

2018

Bad Trade

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

$376.28

0.004 Bitcoin

2018

Hardware Failure

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

$2,822,070.00

30 Bitcoin

2017

Collectible Purchase

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

$153,598.00

50 Ethereum

2017

Transfer Error

Sent to wrong address :(

$51,455.74

0.547 Bitcoin

2017

Expensive Gift

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

$19,967.74

6.5 Ethereum

2017

Wallet Error

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

$222.31

0.5 Bitcoin Cash

2017

Phishing

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

$1,128.83

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.

$11,288,280,000.00

120,000 Bitcoin

2016

Panic Sold

Was noob, panic sold

$1,092.78

13 Litecoin

2016

Lost Access

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

$244,579,400.00

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

$32,924.15

0.35 Bitcoin

2015

Hardware Failure

Hard drive formatted :/

$188,138.00

2 Bitcoin

2014

Bad Investment

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

$7,107,853.64

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

$940,690,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2013

Bad Purchase

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

$75,255.20

0.8 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$47,034.50

0.5 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$705,517,500.00

7,500 Bitcoin

2012

Lost Access

Lost wallet

$1,128,828.00

12 Bitcoin

2012

Exchange Loss

GOXXXXED

$1,081,793.50

11.5 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Lost in harddrive malfunction

$2,728,001.00

29 Bitcoin

2011

Bad Purchase

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

$37,627,600.00

400 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

$75,255,200.00

800 Bitcoin

2010

Forgotten Funds

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

$329,241,500.00

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.

$94,069,000.00

1,000 Bitcoin

2009

Bad Purchase

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

$2,633,932.00

28 Bitcoin