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Cardano

$1.22

Bitcoin

$100,162.00

Ethereum

$3,990.05

Litecoin

$135.98

Bitcoin Cash

$617.58

2024

Lost Access

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

$400,648.00

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.

$75,810.95

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.

$410,664,200.00

4,100 Bitcoin

2020

Theft

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

$451,019,469.80

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.

$15,625,272.00

156 Bitcoin

2019

Theft

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

$1,364,597,100.00

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.

$701,134,000.00

7,000 Bitcoin

2018

Bad Trade

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

$400.65

0.004 Bitcoin

2018

Hardware Failure

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

$3,004,860.00

30 Bitcoin

2017

Collectible Purchase

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

$199,502.50

50 Ethereum

2017

Transfer Error

Sent to wrong address :(

$54,788.61

0.547 Bitcoin

2017

Expensive Gift

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

$25,935.33

6.5 Ethereum

2017

Wallet Error

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

$308.79

0.5 Bitcoin Cash

2017

Phishing

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

$1,201.94

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.

$12,019,440,000.00

120,000 Bitcoin

2016

Panic Sold

Was noob, panic sold

$1,767.74

13 Litecoin

2016

Lost Access

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

$260,421,200.00

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

$35,056.70

0.35 Bitcoin

2015

Hardware Failure

Hard drive formatted :/

$200,324.00

2 Bitcoin

2014

Bad Investment

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

$7,568,240.72

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

$1,001,620,000.00

10,000 Bitcoin

2013

Bad Purchase

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

$80,129.60

0.8 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

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

$50,081.00

0.5 Bitcoin

2013

Lost Access

James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC.

$751,215,000.00

7,500 Bitcoin

2012

Lost Access

Lost wallet

$1,201,944.00

12 Bitcoin

2012

Exchange Loss

GOXXXXED

$1,151,863.00

11.5 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Lost in harddrive malfunction

$2,904,698.00

29 Bitcoin

2011

Bad Purchase

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

$40,064,800.00

400 Bitcoin

2011

Hardware Failure

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

$80,129,600.00

800 Bitcoin

2010

Forgotten Funds

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

$350,567,000.00

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.

$100,162,000.00

1,000 Bitcoin

2009

Bad Purchase

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

$2,804,536.00

28 Bitcoin