Have a break have a CoinsKat

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

Bad trade sold it right before 15% pump

Was noob, panic sold

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

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

Bought a 256gb SSD because i thought BTC had stabilized around $300. Still use it, probably the dumbest thing i ever bought

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

Sent to wrong address :(

Someone accepted an offer of 6.9 APE (around $10) for their Bored Ape 3590 NFT, price floor was around 19 ETH.

Bought Ecstasy with it. Should have holded.

Bought a gen0 crypto kitty.

Hard drive formatted :/

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

GOXXXXED

Lost wallet

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

Lost in harddrive malfunction

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

Beat down by Mark Karpeles bosu ball

Xzavyer Narvaez, at 19 years old, engaged in SIM swapping to steal cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, later used to purchase luxury vehicles.

Buying drugs and proxies in first few years

Gabriel Abed lost 800 BTC when his computer was formatted.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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