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What was your worst loss investing in altcoins? :-\

Digibyte I bought it at $0.04 then I sold it for loss. It was wrong entry point, I learned my lesson. I don't think even now you should buy it

Yeah... it's $0,01 now
sorry to ear, sucks.

For now, I really don't have a loss, just paper loss of some altcoins like storj and minereum.  I bought it at the price where it's highest the most.  I thought it will surge more but I was wrong.  Its is now at 50% loss.  For now I am taking advantage of the market and bought it at some cheap price.  Anyways minereum and storj are new and maybe those coins will surge at 2018.  I just keep on holding them as I believe they have potential projects.

That's the point!
Never sale at a loss.
Even the worst coins will have a pump sooner or later.
Patience brings wealth.

I bought golem when its price was pretty high, and i lost about 50% of my money, but I havn't sold them yet. I wait until my losses will be smaller.

Bought Siacoin when it was 800 sats, but I am holding on so paper lose for now.

STOX!Q!!! still holding, but it needs to make x3 - x4 to get my investment back  :-\

Same here, DGB rekt me for a percentage loss standpoint.  Though luckily I didn't have much of my portfolio involved in it.  Still bagholding it.  Doesn't make much sense to sell it now at such a huge loss.

I buy ESPERS for 15 sat, now its 1 sat. GOOD INVEST ;D BUT i still hold them and believe in CC

Man... it's 72 sat now.
I would never sale those  :P
U just have to be patient I guess.

DNT... Bought in when it was at $0.22 and now it is at $0.04

Still holding it and hoping for a pump :P

well, at least it can't get worst now  ;D
Good time to buy... 1 sat... jeez

Yeah... 5x is not impossible.

Sell high and buy the dips, you will get there faster  :)
I think it's a wrong idea to wait until it reaches your price,
you can keep trading from the bottom to the top, no?

So far I have made like 6 grand. Got in early on Ardor and have only been making good since.

Nice to ear.
I guess impatience is our worst enemy...

Hahaha nice to see that I'm not the only one who lost a few K from DGB  ;D I was literally on suicide mode, but luckily made back my profits from BTC.

When I was new here someone asked me toy buy the coin I don't really remember the name it was a while ago, He asked me to buy it he convinced me that its price will rise we have many many users coming to invest in it bla bla. I bought the coin and since then I have never heard about the coin never seen any ANN thread of it.

No loss from the altcoin trades yet because I recently started with that area and before doing anything I have read many article for tips and tricks.

I have kept all the precautions until now and I'm willing to spend good time with my coins before I can sell them. I will always take up at least 5% of the profits which is necessary to put belief into next trade that I might open up. I don't want to loose my chain of investment by silly mistakes. Hopefully there doesn't come a day when I lose. :-)

But, do you still have the coins in a wallet or exchange?

That's the right attitude.
I wish I did that a few months ago... ::)

Damn. I see that a lot of people here really had lost quite a good amount just because of investing in shitcoins. Feel bad for you guys,  just hope you get back on your loss as soon as possible.

Well for me, i haven't encountered something like this before. Because i tend to study amy investments i make more than I should. I guess I'm just too paranoid. But im glad I am.

But when i make mistakes then at keast i learned. Better to try than not.

This summer when I bougth ETC at 18$ and sold at 13. I lost 300$ (near 10% of my all crypto)

I've recently started with buying altcoins and invested some money. I'm hoping not to have a loss and I'm holding.

Potential to lose money but hoping not to.

I have a lot of some are here  ;D

*I bought Okcash when it was .00017btc for 300$. It is now .000032btc
*Edgeless when it was .00029btc. for 500$ It is now .000082btc

This was the bad decision because btc and ETH should not be sold generally unless the market is sinking badly or you require urgent need of money. Both of them are the must to have and the result today is that both coins are performing extremely well.

He sold ETClassic.

Yes, I may have that coin in some wallet or in exchange but I have never heard about it, never head it on any site, never saw a single thread about it here. I will find it and will post about it and see if anyone is going to buy it or not.
I have bought 1000s of it. It cost me about 50$ I guess not much.

Why would you buy at that price ? I guess you get too excited and bought because that's like the highest ETC has ever been.
Buying at the climax of any coin totally means you're gonna lose.


OMG ! What a drop ! You've got balls of steel to keep them until now.
Sia has gone down to about 73 sats. You need more than a 10x pump to get back your capital.

Again this is another wrong entry point.
People if you want to buy a coin and get money out of it, don't buy when it's going up or at least don't buy when it's already too high (than the average for the past month or two).

I bet your are freaking millionaire   :D :D

Monetha. But it's a project I believe has a ton of potential, so I haven't sold... yet.

Or maybe I have lost that 50$ which I have invested a long time ago, lol can you imagine I have never heard about it. Or maybe that coin is not existed anymore, that user convinced me on a public chat room lol, I thought that it can reach some heights like Bitcoin do. Whatever, 50$ wasted.

Stratis
75% down atm

It's amazing how you just lost track of those coins.
An altcoin doesn't have to be popular to make you wealthy.
You know, usually, in crypto, "long time ago" means lot of profit... ;)

Minereum, i bought it around 10$ for 800 $  ;D

I don't have STRATIS but it's a good altcoin, you will be fine soon.

And now, it is?

CoFoundIT, QRL and stratis...
Worst graph I ever seen... Always going down, I even surrendered to sell them, because it's not worth anything anymore.

I'll try to focus on "Big coins" now, because second zone altcoins are not worth it except for day trade.

Let's see what happen in the future. But not sure they will pump and came back at their price...

I would say ByteBall, had thought it'll go higher when it was in its peak but it dropped too low and not even getting back to normal.

Ok, I made this post...  and now I think it's my time to confess  ;D ;D ;D
Fasten seat belts:
I bought 30.000 Cardano at... 1999 sat.  :D :D :D
Applause please!  
But the project is getting very popular worldwide, I am perfectly sure I will
make profit in a few months.

Worst loss is probably not capitalizing on Dogecoins during the peak. That's at least a times four loss. I am not a very big fan of short term trading though.

1999 sat?
bah not so good entry point i agree
but you wont lose from that for sure :)  cardano will be one of the GREATS!!!
i would buy more 100k for 400/500 sats , and then cash out at 2500-3000 sat the 30,000 ADA
its a win win :)

Cardano?
on Bittrex as ADA coin - you can find all the papers you need to understand the project
but easiest way is to read the page whycardano.com

i dont like day trading...
i like to invest and keep researching while waiting
everytime i learn something new, and learn about the market and what is missing
so i can predict what is the next thing...

with the Stox it was a real mistake :X

After reading this thread I have the necessity to read or create a thread "your biggest profit from altcoins". So as not to lose faith in this kind of income ;D

It's not a loss yet as I'm still Hodling BUT Stratis has been a terrible buy for me. Bought 500 at around $7.  :-[ :'(

My worst lost was I think a month ago or two. I bought this other altcoins named triggers, the idea is all about guns based blockchain. So there was this other period they had to burn 70 million, leaving 30 million in circulation.

The value skyrocketed to new highs and I fell for a pump and dump. I bought it at around $2.30 and the value dumped to $0.40. I am still holding hoping it will recover, it's a good thing I didn't buy a lot.

fair enough  :)

I though a lot about buying the 1st day, but some coins can make 10x or even 40x on launch, so I took
the risk... :)
But as you said, Cardano is just beginning his journey to the stars.

ohh that's ok... its 3$ now with 10% rise, not a big deal.
Just be patient. ;)

Yes I lost a bit as well with Stratis, I didn't see it going this way but I still have hopes for it to go back up a bit

some of people who i know, invested 10 btc to a coin and lost 9.5 btc of 10 in this month

It was Bela. I sold it 3 times cheaper than buying,when the developers have not fulfilled their promise. :-\

CloakCoin 2nd or third coin I bought. Just didn't choose a good entry-point.
Lesson learned. Btw I threw that money into another coin and broke-even.
CloakCoin has some cool stuff coming up in 2018 and I'm considering going back into it. But I'll see, so many great opportunities that its hard to pick.

Neo. I bought it at a price of 50$ for the neo. But I still hold it. I believe it will cost 100$ in half a year or sooner.

Same with me here. I did brought some CORG coins to trade. I loss 0.1 BTc -0.1 BTC last 2016 of january. Yea Bitcoin might now that be big at that time but, still that is money. I did learnd my lesson when it comes to trading. Don't put your money to pump and dumps. You may loss and win. But, more on the red side.

Never had any loss with trading.
Some coins are worth less now then when I bought it but I am a long term keeper.
So I don't really care about daily fluctuations, it happens every day and on the end it will always be worth more.
At least in my cases, all coins I sold were with profit.

I think CRB tokens as my biggest loss. I bought them at 0.02 per token rate and thought that it's cheap and crb will get spiked to 50-60 cents at the least. But nothing like that happened for next two to three months and then finally the coin is dumped completely. Now no hopes from it which is sucking up until now into my heads. :-(


From then onwards I have started investing into coins with huge market cap because they tend to survive the worst situation and we can be assured of break even all the time. :-)

Lumen and DGB,i buy in 1700 for both and now the price is still shit and i already cutloss
For now i start invest in qtum and eth,2 days ago is good entry point for me

MMXIV coin in bittrex, don't know if that is POS coin and then the price runs down quickly and never come back up, my one of big cutloss in market.

Neo, i bought it right before china cracked down on ICO's and the value plummeted causing me huge losses at the time. Still attempting to recover back to the levels i was at previously now. It's a slow climb just to get back to where i was originally at. Hopefully i can get there in the end. Has taught me to spread/diversify my portfolio more these days ( which is a good thing i guess ) instead of putting all my eggs into one basket.

Currently almost all my altcoin portfolio is in loss but worst one is etheriya after doing lots of research on low market cap and limited supply coin I invested on this but current price way lesser than the price I bought now am holding this until I get profit won’t sell.

Worse loss was selling Bitcoins at around $200 USD.

The worse loss for btc is selling anywhere before june when it started going up, 500% in 6 months, pretty big loss.

Just for that unpredictable and uncertainty of alts I try to earn them from signature campaigns or bounties rather than investing into them.

In the beginning of no one without loss I have failed so much with altcoin, the co-altcoin a lot of coin depends on the value of the bitcoin up and down, when bitcoin drops it will typically fall below the brakes. dgb was a good and stable coin but since i knew it for 4k sts it now has 173 sts coming to its original value, failure is understandable with hug people coin so I decided never to hug altcoin long time only surfing them everyday to make money

Hey query is about altcoin buddy. Why you guys with bitcoin suddenly. As I checked marketcap Neo and NEM coins are best invest in the altcoin list. The worst coin to invest as of now is Gnosis and Digibyte since the cost of the coin decreasing continuously.
BCH might take up invested but that you should handle as a short term investment because we may find the value low again after the hard fork in November.,

Worst potential loss was when I bought for 2k Ethereum when it was around 7 a 8 dollar. Sold it again without making profit..

My worst loss was buying status tokens on nearly peak levels. I could save it only with like -%20. And I hated it. I hate to invest on altcoins right now. I prefer btc, lite or ethereum.

Correct, never try and time the market but rather use time in your advantage.

Selling Btc at $120 and selling Nem at 30 sats. I could of had a dollar value of over $100k now if i hadnt made those mistakes but hey I still have my health :)

The rate on coinmarketcap differs from the real. WTF?

What I feel in investing in altcoin is an advantage because I have some kind of altcoin which I can certainly make as a supporter when one of the altcoin types that I have got a loss. I think such a strategy is really needed for altcoin holders because by having some kind of altcoin that I have this will be a support for supporting another coint that is losing money. I think this is very important to be done by the holder of altcoin yes of course so as not to experience losses that are too significant.

Bad timing dude. And the China crackdown has really put a significant slump on NEO because we all know that its the Chinese Ethereum. Although it has somewhat regain, it will take some time before you can see some profits. Yes, its gonna be a hard lessons to learn, not just for you, but everyone has one way or another has experienced that kind of thing. So I guess all you can do its hodl and hope that it will recover soon to cover your losses. I have tokens though that I didn't sell and I thought it will rise soon, unfortunately the price plummeted already to more than half of its original value when it was listed on a exchange. Too bad.

Trying to invest in a site that is initially very promising for the future, this site is able to offer benefits with interest rates are very tempting if we can invest in it. Many people who are interested to be able to take part of the investment on the site, I also do not want to miss trying to follow the people who have invested in the site.
But the result of the site was lost somewhere, the money coming into the site disappeared do not know the clarity, and it turns out the site is deceiving people who have invested in it.

Sorry to ask but, it was $0,02?

ohhh my God! :)

I bought some ether at 350 euros, just beforeit went down, it was a year ago, since then i'm waiting

ahhhh!! jeez... you could be rich as f??k

Well, health is everything! but $100k... yummy... ;D

It's OKCash for me  -80% :-\
Bought it at 0.0001670 BTC. I have some bought at 0.00006320BTC aswell

Losses in APX and Databits have been heartbreaking. I had more than 3 bitcoisn invested in both of these and I am down almost more than 80%. However, incase of Databits, I am bullish long term.

I don´t get it. It's 3700 sat. now...

I bought ETHD and eBTC. eBTC proved to be scam, ETHD made a token swap and lost value, now I still wait... Now I know why people said "Don't by coins that are not in Top 20 on coinmarketcap...

i lost investment in stellar coins. I bought some coins month of june at .04 dollar each and now it is dumped pretty hard :( . Im still HODLing the coins and hoping that someday the price will increase again. And selling bitcoins at 600$ each i got .5 at that time and it cost around 300$ and now the value of .5 btc is 1500$ how ironic isn't it?

If you have trustworthy people, there is no problem with some failures. The worst people are false people. Personally at the moment my biggest loss is the sale of several BTCs after my weak rate.

XRP i bought when it was 0,35 and goes to 0,17 and never came back hahahaha. . . :) but i stiil love it is stable :/

My worst loss is buying chain coin @ 1$ and it's going down deep everyday

i think we are made worst loss when btc price is increase now and i made it too. i remember when btc price is rally to increase then in that time almost altcoin we have is suddenly down and never increase high again. but i still have faith that altcoin price will be increase, maybe after btc is done the fork so we can have a good chance to see the altcoin price is back increase. once altcoin get opportunity to increase, then i think the price will increase higher. we have seen str/xlm reach the highest price yesterday and i think other altcoin have the same chance too and only waiting for the right moment.

i'm holding on my eos since I invested them in the initial ico. since then, they are just going down.

Correction: 0,5 btc is $2850 ;)

no longer my worst loss, lol
protected my position on the dip, bought a lot of stratis there and just sold them today for a 14% profit overall, although i really like the coin...these are insane times we're in

Synereo amp's 2nd ico, bought at around 33k sats sold at 3k sats. Bought sia at 550 now it's at 70 sats. Sia is still paper loss, overall I'm still up due to other coins but lesson learned I guess.

The bloody Cryptsy. At that time I had 4 different coins in it and at the price of today, it would be more than 3BTC.
There was red flags but didn't see it (or didn't want to see it). I thought such a big exchange like that could not cheat everyone.

My worst loss is all the damn time I spent excited about really good ideas which ended up being get rich quick scams for shady devs.  Seriously, if some of them spent the initial funding on development they could have made more than their quick grab.  To this day the possibility that what I am rooting for is a scam bugs me.  The waste if time is way worse than a few hundred or thousand bucks here and there.

So I am sticking with great ideas that are clearly backed by real world development.  A github helps.  If it tanks it tanks but at least it was an honest attempt.

I would like to see a list of all ICO's that have github activity, or other metrics indicating authenticity.  Someone should index them in a searchable manner.  Coins and ICOs like SIA, Oyster, etc.

My worst loss was with LBC. I'm actually glad i cut my losses when i did because it kept going down with no signs of stopping (and its still on a downtrend nowadays). Taught me a good lesson atleast :P

My portfolio has been insanely profitable this year, but I still made a mistake that I'm kicking myself in the balls for. I bought STRAT @ $0.15 held through the pump to $14 and had weak hands selling it at the most recent low of $2.80.

I guess I shouldin't complain, but hell if I had converted it to bitcoin at any price from $10-14$ I'd be a millionare right now. Instead I'm not even a one-hundredthousanare anymore :(

On the bright side I'm going to be making another entry into the market on top of my current HODLINGS in a few weeks once I free up some cash, so it's not too unrealistic to expect my portfolio to be worth $150-300K by this time next year, given how quickly crypto grows :)

When the price of ETH was still at $25 and I did never invested to it by that time so I consider that as a big loss for me. And I feel bad up until now because I can't go back to that time anymore where I never invested to that alt coin and also it applies to other alt coins as well.



That's really the worst loss of all and why you did sold that without making profit?

Currently my worst loss is buying DO when it was at $3 and it rose to $4, then expecting it to continue rising, it just kept dropping. I kept telling myself that it would eventually make it's way back up to a good price to sell but it just keep falling. I sold it a few weeks ago for just under $1 each. Feels bad man, but since I'm in the airdrop I think that I could afford it to invest it somewhere else and try to make my gains back. I learned my lesson and I'm not going to be so easy to pushover for my sell floor. Now I make hard decisions about selling when it hits that floor and I never fight it or let my emotions get in the way of me making the decision.

sorry, but it's have been going down too deep.
so i would say yes to sale at those time to cut more lose.

Was with Monsterbyte, not that it lost it's price, but I actually forgot to save the Waves Seed and before I could get my coins, I lost them all.

Bitland Cadastrals - the worst ever. It kept going down. The COO has the best attitude in the business https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=279588
LOL

Bought OmiseGo at 0.0022 BTC sold at 0.00145 BTC. This was prior to hard fork for Bitcoin Gold, until now its still below my buying price so I sold it at loss. I see other coins or tokens now moving thats why I decided to sell and look for other opportunity. I am not into long term holding. I would rather sell below target price and buy a coin with greater potential to gain profits than wait for the coin that I bought to get pumped.

I invest huntercoin trying to hold hoping it will increase but the price of huntercoin went down and I sold the coin I think this is the worst losses that I invested its 70% of my money loss.

To this point, Ember - it was only 0.00000008 BTC, but now it's less than one tenth of that. I guess I'll just hold and hope something happens in the future, because they do have a decent looking roadmap. Thankfully, I didn't put in that much!

i think i am investing in YACC in the two years ago in poloniex but i am forgot to sell so i think i am not selling when the price is up and because of that, i am loss although its not much. but after that, i think i am loss but not too much and now i can sell when the price is up even if the increase is not much. beside that, i am learning to watching the chart and if the trend is showing the up trend then i can prepare to sell the coins and just hoping to make profit.

detectortoken. the price falling down so quick.
I received many possible pump messages but I'm not sure.

I bought digibyte for short term only once digibyte hit the price that I want to sell but bitcoin is going up, the price of digibyte is going down I don't want to sell it I believe this altcoin is going up in next day I just hold it, then in the next day is never going up its down deeply sadly I sold my coins.

My worst loss in investing altcoins is when the time I had sold my Doge coins, Litecoins and Ethereum due to an emergency that happened to me last October one 2017. I dont remember the percentage but I know that was that big since I bought it on high then suddenly fall continously and the sad thing is that most of my Bitcoins are converted into altcoins that time something like 80% altcoins and 20% Bitcoins. I don't really have a choice but to cashout all my holdings because I am afraid the accident will be getting worse so as a preemptive measure I converted all in fiat and fortunately nothing serious had happened to me and I fully recovered from such an injury. If only it did not happened I am still holding those coins now. That is my story of worst loss so far and I am hoping that it will never happen again in the future.

I had bought stellar at 800 satoshis and i had holded too much and i see the value decreasing into 600 next day and i had sold mine coins into 300 satoshis, soo i had lost around 60% the investment i had made into it, i were able to recover a small part into doge, but lesson learned never join a coin in the middle of the pump.

Fortunately, my biggest loss is that I did not sell Eth on 400. I hope this will remain so. I really hope.

I've made a few losses at about 40/50% looking to flip a coin quickly and then having it dump on me whilst I slept, lesson is to not leave risky positions open while you sleep!

Wankcoin cost me a lot, still picking my teeth up off the floor.

I got the project dgb from 1850 sats for being nice. I'm waiting with patience

The most i regret when i investing is when i buy hill coin before and saddenly when the price dump and did not recover until it become 1 sat i regret that i buy that coin

Me too, can't remember the exact price I bought it for but it was quite high and I dumped it at half the price. Devs were not active for months so cut my losses and ran

True, I learned the same never join a coin in the middle of the pump.

What are you saying? Cardano price never been above 600 sat.

No huge losses here.

But there are some "losses" (haven't sold any of them so maybe they will bounce back)

Bought $100 worth of Espers which are now worth $10 total.
Bought 40 Radium at $5.5 each, they are at about $3 now.
Bought 200 SHIFT at $2 each, worth about $1 now.
Bought 100 Nexus at $2.5 each, worth about $1 now.

Now all except maybe Espers will probably bounce back.
But thanks to NEO (bought 20 at $7 each) and Waves (bought 300 at $2.5 each) I'm still not in the loss.

I haven't had any losses yet and i hope not to in the future, but i will say that you can - in a way - prevent a "big loss" by keeping track of your progress and/or making sure of your project by researching it, before investing.

My worst loss was Blocknet that is now doing very well in the market. I bought Blocknet then around the $10 by end of 2016 my stash as devalue  to 50 cent. It was horrible because i really believe in the project and i was holding for long term. I sold. But now I i regret that i sold. Blocknet now is around $30

Cannot predict a loss incoming but a piece of advice would be to avoid joining coins during the actual pump phase, just be patient and wait for the right moment.

I bought COSS on Oct 7 at the highest price because I appreciated this project, but probably I was not at the right time and now my worth the loss of about 400%. But I still hold and not sell because I have determined will HODL for this project

When i bought etherium but forget the date and i sell for 50% loss. 50% is my worst lost.
I can not think if i lost more than that. So now i learn from that.

It happened when this certain token's price (will not say what it is) was declining and decreasing a lot that I was put into panic selling mode and before I knew it, someone had bought the coins. I wasn't paying any attention to the charts (since there are other things to do) but before I knew it, the coins I sold where pumping and had already doubled its price. It was really disappointing but I cannot actually say its the worst, since it was my first time trading, plus, I got those coins cheap, so yeah, it's not that kind of bad. Just disappointing. Although, I learned a lot from that mistake.

Bought some weed for 40 BTC in 2011.

Sad to say this but right now - the prize would have to go to ATS. Not good press for them. I still think its a good project. But a lesson to any ICO should be to carefully think out the bounty program - it could turn out to be deadly.

fkin waves

I bought a decent amount of BitAseans at $0,4, went to $0,5 and then they dropped to fkin nothing :D It was at my beginnings so noob moves all the way :(

So far deeponion, but not really stressing about it, because i do believe that the future will be bright for this one.

I am fairly new to Crypto world, and people recommended me to buy Waves as a long term investment.
I bought without any research or unaware of fluctuation in the market. It is now going deeper down, i've lost more than %60  :'(
Very dissapointed....

This is an interesting question. Personally, I have about 50 currencies, and I do not even know which of them is in the biggest ass

This has been a bad bad time for all my alternate currencies. I am almost down to 60% of my holding in bitcoin terms. The worst performing alts for me were databits and zash.

so sad to hear how much people lost in investing in altcoin. this is really helpful for many of us who have little experience in Investing in ICO however I still believe that there are still many altcoin that have make many investors great profit because I have heard many investor on another thread how they make over 300% profit investing in altcoin. i think finding a profitable altcoin is really a challenge. it is really hard to predict a profitable altcoin

ahh actually it is my worst nightmare. My worst alt coin loss is sia coin. i bought it with lot of hopes and i lost it. i learned my lesson. i never do mistake like that ever again.

The biggest loss happened to me (as I understand) in 2016, when I sold my ETH. I could not expect that I had to wait and see its awesome growth very soon. Now, when I see it is over $330, I realize how much I could earn if I would not get rid of this altcoin.  :( :( :(

My worst loss is LIR. It was an ico which gains like x2 at the start. However, it was later turn out to be a scam where the owner bought like 10 over accounts to hype its own thread, that the price drop like 99.99%. I remember i got in at around 2.8k sat per unit and i sold at 200 sat per unit. Now it was a few sat.

I tend to not worry on the price of an Altcoin because they usually don't get a high value once the money is placed into it. Crypto is weird.

I've made many haha but one I can remember right now is selling 1100 HDG tokens when they were $0.60ish each. Now they're worth way more than that  :(

Invested in IOTA when it was 21k satoshis, and now under 5k. But I'm still holding it. So it's a paper lose of 78%.