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.
$95,278,000.00
1,000 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.
$95,278,000.00
1,000 Bitcoin
2009
Bad Purchase
Bought drugs on silkroad, retrospectively the most expensive drugs i ever bought...
$2,667,784.00
28 Bitcoin
2010
Forgotten Funds
Got 3500 of it with mining. Totally forgot about it, bought new pc... realized it too late
$333,473,000.00
3,500 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Lost in harddrive malfunction
$2,763,062.00
29 Bitcoin
2011
Bad Purchase
Buying drugs and proxies in first few years
$38,111,200.00
400 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.
$76,222,400.00
800 Bitcoin
2012
Lost Access
Lost wallet
$1,143,336.00
12 Bitcoin
2012
Exchange Loss
GOXXXXED
$1,095,697.00
11.5 Bitcoin
2013
Bad Purchase
Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.
$76,222.40
0.8 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
Wallet lost, who knew it would go up so high...
$47,639.00
0.5 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC.
$714,585,000.00
7,500 Bitcoin
2014
Bad Investment
Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball
$7,199,205.68
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
$952,780,000.00
10,000 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
$33,347.30
0.35 Bitcoin
2015
Hardware Failure
Hard drive formatted :/
$190,556.00
2 Bitcoin
2016
Theft
Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested for laundering $4.5 billion in stolen bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex hack.
$11,433,360,000.00
120,000 Bitcoin
2016
Panic Sold
Was noob, panic sold
$1,550.51
13 Litecoin
2016
Lost Access
An anonymous user lost access to a wallet with 2,600 BTC since 2011.
$247,722,800.00
2,600 Bitcoin
2017
Collectible Purchase
Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.
$180,639.00
50 Ethereum
2017
Transfer Error
Sent to wrong address :(
$52,117.07
0.547 Bitcoin
2017
Expensive Gift
Bought myself and my GH iPhone X and then of course ethereum doubles over the next two weeks.
$23,483.07
6.5 Ethereum
2017
Wallet Error
Wanted to claim them from Exodus but transacted it to a BTC wallet, not to a BCH Wallet...
$255.04
0.5 Bitcoin Cash
2017
Phishing
Fake/Phishing bitaddress.org website (bittaddress.org - not double 't')
$1,143.34
0.012 Bitcoin
2018
Bad Trade
Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump
$381.11
0.004 Bitcoin
2018
Hardware Failure
An investor lost 30 BTC after buying a second-hand Ledger with compromised security.
$2,858,340.00
30 Bitcoin
2019
Theft
In 2019, hackers stole 342,000 ETH from Upbit, laundering the funds across 51 countries and converting most into Bitcoin.
$1,235,570,760.00
342,000 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.
$666,946,000.00
7,000 Bitcoin
2020
Theft
In 2020, a massive hack targeted DMM Bitcoin, resulting in the theft of 4502.9 BTC, exploiting vulnerabilities in their systems.
$429,027,306.20
4,502.9 Bitcoin
2020
Theft
Xzavyer Narvaez, at 19 years old, engaged in SIM swapping to steal cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, later used to purchase luxury vehicles.
$14,863,368.00
156 Bitcoin
2024
Lost Access
A Brazilian YouTuber (Lord Vinheteiro) lost 4 BTC after accidentally discarding his seed phrase, rendering him unable to access his wallet.
$381,112.00
4 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.
$68,642.82
19 Ethereum
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.
$390,639,800.00
4,100 Bitcoin