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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: tonto on December 12, 2013, 08:26:32 PM



Title: 500 namecoins lost *sigh* My own stupidity
Post by: tonto on December 12, 2013, 08:26:32 PM
So I recently noticed that namecoins are actually worth more than fractions of a cent.  Like $7 now.  A while back my computer crashed and I recovered what I could, and didn't have any good backups.  Apparently my namecoin folder wasn't important enough for me to try to find/recover.  Plus at the time of the crash, I think namecoins were still under a penny each, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to how many I had... that combined with a couple miners that were doing merged mining through slush's pool, I wasn't paying enough attention to the fortune I was accumulating. :)
 
So yeah, I'm a little peeved at myself that I "lost" $3500.  While I'm 99% certain they're gone forever, I do have a few hard drives from around the time it crashed, so maybe I backed it up on some other drive.  But I'm only giving myself a 1% of this.
 
 http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N4ezFjc3qzz5ozkawQaNM7XkAd5UinE5hd (http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N4ezFjc3qzz5ozkawQaNM7XkAd5UinE5hd)


Title: Re: 500 namecoins lost *sigh* My own stupidity
Post by: FrictionlessCoin on December 12, 2013, 08:45:08 PM
So I recently noticed that namecoins are actually worth more than fractions of a cent.  Like $7 now.  A while back my computer crashed and I recovered what I could, and didn't have any good backups.  Apparently my namecoin folder wasn't important enough for me to try to find/recover.  Plus at the time of the crash, I think namecoins were still under a penny each, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to how many I had... that combined with a couple miners that were doing merged mining through slush's pool, I wasn't paying enough attention to the fortune I was accumulating. :)
 
So yeah, I'm a little peeved at myself that I "lost" $3500.  While I'm 99% certain they're gone forever, I do have a few hard drives from around the time it crashed, so maybe I backed it up on some other drive.  But I'm only giving myself a 1% of this.
 
 http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N4ezFjc3qzz5ozkawQaNM7XkAd5UinE5hd (http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N4ezFjc3qzz5ozkawQaNM7XkAd5UinE5hd)

I am sure there are a lot of folks who accidentally lost their namecoins.

That is why the current 7 million in circulation is likely much less.