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Crypto success and failure stories

Bitcoin

$78,916.00

Ethereum

$2,338.47

Litecoin

$55.28

Bitcoin Cash

$443.29

2025

Theft

Bybit, suffered a hack resulting in the theft of approximately $1.46 billion in Ethereum.

$1,167,820,225.65

499,395 Ethereum

2024

Success

A man named **Michael** recovered access to his Bitcoin wallet containing 43.6 BTC after hackers found a flaw in his password software. YouTube Video

$3,440,737.60

43.6 Bitcoin

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.

$323,555,600.00

4,100 Bitcoin

2024

Bad Trade

Someone accepted an offer of 6.9 APE (around $10) for their Bored Ape 3590 NFT, price floor was around 19 ETH.

$44,430.93

19 Ethereum

2024

Lost Access

A Brazilian YouTuber (Lord Vinheteiro) lost 4 BTC after accidentally discarding his seed phrase, rendering him unable to access his wallet.

$315,664.00

4 Bitcoin

2023

Theft

A defrauded investor stabbed the CEO of Haru Invest, accused of a 100 BTC, and now faces 10 years in prison despite his defense citing emotional distress.

$71,024,400.00

900 Bitcoin

2022

Theft

Wormhole bridge exploit stole roughly 120,000 ETH.

$280,616,400.00

120,000 Ethereum

2022

Theft

Ronin Network hack drained about 173,600 ETH.

$405,958,392.00

173,600 Ethereum

2021

Transfer Error

A user mistakenly spent 23.5172 ETH in gas fees for $120 transfer.

$54,994.27

23.517 Ethereum

2021

Theft

Cream Finance lost across multiple hacks roughly 27,000 ETH in total.

$63,138,690.00

27,000 Ethereum

2020

Theft

Xzavyer Narvaez, at 19 years old, engaged in SIM swapping to steal cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, later used to purchase luxury vehicles.

$12,310,896.00

156 Bitcoin

2020

Theft

In 2020, a massive hack targeted DMM Bitcoin, resulting in the theft of 4502.9 BTC, exploiting vulnerabilities in their systems.

$355,350,856.40

4,502.9 Bitcoin

2019

Theft

Cryptopia exchange was hacked, losing about 40,000 ETH and shutting down permanently.

$93,538,800.00

40,000 Ethereum

2019

Theft

In 2019, Binance was hacked, resulting in the theft of 7,000 BTC. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in Binance's systems, bypassing security measures and gaining access to the exchange's hot wallet.

$552,412,000.00

7,000 Bitcoin

2019

Theft

In 2019, hackers stole 342,000 ETH from Upbit, laundering the funds across 51 countries and converting most into Bitcoin.

$799,756,740.00

342,000 Ethereum

2018

Hardware Failure

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

$2,367,480.00

30 Bitcoin

2018

Bad Trade

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

$315.66

0.004 Bitcoin

2017

Theft

Parity wallet bug froze over 513,000 ETH permanently.

$1,199,635,110.00

513,000 Ethereum

2017

Phishing

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

$946.99

0.012 Bitcoin

2017

Wallet Error

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

$221.65

0.5 Bitcoin Cash

2017

Expensive Gift

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

$15,200.05

6.5 Ethereum

2017

Transfer Error

Sent to wrong address :(

$43,167.05

0.547 Bitcoin

2017

Collectible Purchase

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

$116,923.50

50 Ethereum

2016

Theft

The DAO hack drained 3.6M ETH, causing Ethereum to hard fork into ETH and ETC.

$8,418,492,000.00

3,600,000 Ethereum

2016

Lost Access

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

$205,181,600.00

2,600 Bitcoin

2016

Panic Sold

Was noob, panic sold

$718.64

13 Litecoin

2016

Theft

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

$9,469,920,000.00

120,000 Bitcoin

2015

Hardware Failure

Hard drive formatted :/

$157,832.00

2 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

$27,620.60

0.35 Bitcoin

2014

Exchange Loss

Mt. Gox collapsed after losing 850,000 BTC in the biggest early crypto exchange hack.

$67,078,600,000.00

850,000 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

$789,160,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2014

Bad Investment

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

$5,962,892.96

75.56 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8000 BTC.

$631,328,000.00

8,000 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$39,458.00

0.5 Bitcoin

2013

Bad Purchase

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

$63,132.80

0.8 Bitcoin

2012

Exchange Loss

GOXXXXED

$907,534.00

11.5 Bitcoin

2012

Lost Access

Lost wallet

$946,992.00

12 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

$63,132,800.00

800 Bitcoin

2011

Bad Purchase

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

$31,566,400.00

400 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Lost in harddrive malfunction

$2,288,564.00

29 Bitcoin

2010

historical moments

Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas.

$789,160,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2010

Forgotten Funds

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

$276,206,000.00

3,500 Bitcoin

2009

Bad Purchase

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

$2,209,648.00

28 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.

$78,916,000.00

1,000 Bitcoin