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.
$386,314,300.00
4,100 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.
$386,314,300.00
4,100 Bitcoin
2018
Bad Trade
Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump
$376.89
0.004 Bitcoin
2018
Hardware Failure
An investor lost 30 BTC after buying a second-hand Ledger with compromised security.
$2,826,690.00
30 Bitcoin
2017
Collectible Purchase
Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.
$154,004.50
50 Ethereum
2017
Transfer Error
Sent to wrong address :(
$51,539.98
0.547 Bitcoin
2017
Expensive Gift
Bought myself and my GH iPhone X and then of course ethereum doubles over the next two weeks.
$20,020.59
6.5 Ethereum
2017
Wallet Error
Wanted to claim them from Exodus but transacted it to a BTC wallet, not to a BCH Wallet...
$223.79
0.5 Bitcoin Cash
2017
Phishing
Fake/Phishing bitaddress.org website (bittaddress.org - not double 't')
$1,130.68
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.
$11,306,760,000.00
120,000 Bitcoin
2016
Panic Sold
Was noob, panic sold
$1,098.37
13 Litecoin
2016
Lost Access
An anonymous user lost access to a wallet with 2,600 BTC since 2011.
$244,979,800.00
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
$32,978.05
0.35 Bitcoin
2015
Hardware Failure
Hard drive formatted :/
$188,446.00
2 Bitcoin
2014
Bad Investment
Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball
$7,119,489.88
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
$942,230,000.00
10,000 Bitcoin
2013
Bad Purchase
Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.
$75,378.40
0.8 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
Wallet lost, who knew it would go up so high...
$47,111.50
0.5 Bitcoin
2013
Lost Access
James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC.
$706,672,500.00
7,500 Bitcoin
2012
Lost Access
Lost wallet
$1,130,676.00
12 Bitcoin
2012
Exchange Loss
GOXXXXED
$1,083,564.50
11.5 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Lost in harddrive malfunction
$2,732,467.00
29 Bitcoin
2011
Bad Purchase
Buying drugs and proxies in first few years
$37,689,200.00
400 Bitcoin
2011
Hardware Failure
Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.
$75,378,400.00
800 Bitcoin
2010
Forgotten Funds
Got 3500 of it with mining. Totally forgot about it, bought new pc... realized it too late
$329,780,500.00
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.
$94,223,000.00
1,000 Bitcoin
2009
Bad Purchase
Bought drugs on silkroad, retrospectively the most expensive drugs i ever bought...
$2,638,244.00
28 Bitcoin