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.
$120,398,000.00
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.
$120,398,000.00
1,000 Bitcoin
2009
Bad Purchase
Bought drugs on silkroad, retrospectively the most expensive drugs i ever bought...
$3,371,144.00
28 Bitcoin
2010
Forgotten Funds
Got 3500 of it with mining. Totally forgot about it, bought new pc... realized it too late
$421,393,000.00
3,500 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Lost in harddrive malfunction
$3,491,542.00
29 Bitcoin
2011
Bad Purchase
Buying drugs and proxies in first few years
$48,159,200.00
400 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.
$96,318,400.00
800 Bitcoin
2012
Lost Access
Lost wallet
$1,444,776.00
12 Bitcoin
2012
Exchange Loss
GOXXXXED
$1,384,577.00
11.5 Bitcoin
2013
Bad Purchase
Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.
$96,318.40
0.8 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
Wallet lost, who knew it would go up so high...
$60,199.00
0.5 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC.
$902,985,000.00
7,500 Bitcoin
2014
Bad Investment
Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball
$9,097,272.88
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
$1,203,980,000.00
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
$42,139.30
0.35 Bitcoin
2015
Hardware Failure
Hard drive formatted :/
$240,796.00
2 Bitcoin
2016
Theft
Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested for laundering $4.5 billion in stolen bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex hack.
$14,447,760,000.00
120,000 Bitcoin
2016
Panic Sold
Was noob, panic sold
$1,412.45
13 Litecoin
2016
Lost Access
An anonymous user lost access to a wallet with 2,600 BTC since 2011.
$313,034,800.00
2,600 Bitcoin
2017
Collectible Purchase
Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.
$182,402.50
50 Ethereum
2017
Transfer Error
Sent to wrong address :(
$65,857.71
0.547 Bitcoin
2017
Expensive Gift
Bought myself and my GH iPhone X and then of course ethereum doubles over the next two weeks.
$23,712.33
6.5 Ethereum
2017
Wallet Error
Wanted to claim them from Exodus but transacted it to a BTC wallet, not to a BCH Wallet...
$267.73
0.5 Bitcoin Cash
2017
Phishing
Fake/Phishing bitaddress.org website (bittaddress.org - not double 't')
$1,444.78
0.012 Bitcoin
2018
Bad Trade
Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump
$481.59
0.004 Bitcoin
2018
Hardware Failure
An investor lost 30 BTC after buying a second-hand Ledger with compromised security.
$3,611,940.00
30 Bitcoin
2019
Theft
In 2019, hackers stole 342,000 ETH from Upbit, laundering the funds across 51 countries and converting most into Bitcoin.
$1,247,633,100.00
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.
$842,786,000.00
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.
$542,140,154.20
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.
$18,782,088.00
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.
$481,592.00
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.
$69,312.95
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.
$493,631,800.00
4,100 Bitcoin
2025
Theft
Bybit, suffered a hack resulting in the theft of approximately $1.46 billion in Ethereum.
$1,821,817,929.75
499,395 Ethereum