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Crypto success and failure stories

Bitcoin

$120,294.00

Ethereum

$4,534.40

Litecoin

$117.88

Bitcoin Cash

$596.76

2025

Theft

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

$2,264,456,688.00

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

$5,244,818.40

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.

$493,205,400.00

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.

$86,153.60

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.

$481,176.00

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.

$108,264,600.00

900 Bitcoin

2022

Theft

Wormhole bridge exploit stole roughly 120,000 ETH.

$544,128,000.00

120,000 Ethereum

2022

Theft

Ronin Network hack drained about 173,600 ETH.

$787,171,840.00

173,600 Ethereum

2021

Transfer Error

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

$106,636.39

23.517 Ethereum

2021

Theft

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

$122,428,800.00

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.

$18,765,864.00

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.

$541,671,852.60

4,502.9 Bitcoin

2019

Theft

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

$181,376,000.00

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.

$842,058,000.00

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.

$1,550,764,800.00

342,000 Ethereum

2018

Hardware Failure

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

$3,608,820.00

30 Bitcoin

2018

Bad Trade

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

$481.18

0.004 Bitcoin

2017

Theft

Parity wallet bug froze over 513,000 ETH permanently.

$2,326,147,200.00

513,000 Ethereum

2017

Phishing

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

$1,443.53

0.012 Bitcoin

2017

Wallet Error

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

$298.38

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.

$29,473.60

6.5 Ethereum

2017

Transfer Error

Sent to wrong address :(

$65,800.82

0.547 Bitcoin

2017

Collectible Purchase

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

$226,720.00

50 Ethereum

2016

Theft

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

$16,323,840,000.00

3,600,000 Ethereum

2016

Lost Access

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

$312,764,400.00

2,600 Bitcoin

2016

Panic Sold

Was noob, panic sold

$1,532.44

13 Litecoin

2016

Theft

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

$14,435,280,000.00

120,000 Bitcoin

2015

Hardware Failure

Hard drive formatted :/

$240,588.00

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

$42,102.90

0.35 Bitcoin

2014

Exchange Loss

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

$102,249,900,000.00

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

$1,202,940,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2014

Bad Investment

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

$9,089,414.64

75.56 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$962,352,000.00

8,000 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$60,147.00

0.5 Bitcoin

2013

Bad Purchase

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

$96,235.20

0.8 Bitcoin

2012

Exchange Loss

GOXXXXED

$1,383,381.00

11.5 Bitcoin

2012

Lost Access

Lost wallet

$1,443,528.00

12 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

$96,235,200.00

800 Bitcoin

2011

Bad Purchase

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

$48,117,600.00

400 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Lost in harddrive malfunction

$3,488,526.00

29 Bitcoin

2010

historical moments

Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas.

$1,202,940,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2010

Forgotten Funds

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

$421,029,000.00

3,500 Bitcoin

2009

Bad Purchase

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

$3,368,232.00

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.

$120,294,000.00

1,000 Bitcoin