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August 25, 2015, 02:33:37 PM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
Wow those are bad news, 2.4 btc is a real deal to lose. Try to use all your passwords you have ever used, try all the combinations i think maybe there is a password recovery software called Cian and Abel, so I think that it can be able to help you out and can recover your password for you. If successful, tips are always welcomed. |
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Winalunt
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August 25, 2015, 02:51:18 PM |
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I dont think there is some absolute number but there is an estimation that about 20-30% of coins are lost already ...
some guy also lost 7.5 million $ coins (7500 BTC) @ 1000$ rate
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teemus
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August 28, 2015, 01:06:11 AM |
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i just hope the percentage of bitcoin lost is high. Makes mine worth way more.
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shane
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August 28, 2015, 01:44:39 AM |
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i just hope the percentage of bitcoin lost is high. Makes mine worth way more.
hemmmm i think no more than 20% of total bitcoin suply lose in the world  some people lose because he forget password of his account, or may be his dead and his family can't acces bitcoin |
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gentlemand
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August 28, 2015, 01:15:37 PM |
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i just hope the percentage of bitcoin lost is high. Makes mine worth way more.
It would be a factor if every single available coin was constantly trading but huge amounts are sitting still doing nothing. There's no way of telling whether they're waiting for the right moment or lost forever. |
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eternalgloom
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August 28, 2015, 01:44:49 PM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
Yeah I've also lost a couple of BTC due to mistakes like that. Now I'm using a password manager (on a usb stick) |
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August 30, 2015, 01:11:59 AM |
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I read a few month ago a article, that NVIDIA engineer John Ratcliff calculated that the total amount of coins that lay over 1.5 years is around 4.200.000 Bitcoins (30% of all bitcoins today).
I think that of this 4.2 million bitcoins, 3.5 million are lost.
And i bet when the price will go around 250 dollar for a while, a lot of more people will lost their private keys.
But i think its good for bitcoin, the value will be higher with so a big amount of lost bitcoins.
i can only hope that the percentage is that high. more bitcoins lost=more money for me  |
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lorylore
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September 03, 2015, 10:47:17 AM |
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I have just learned new things today/yesterday about some bitcoin addresses Here are some btc addresses that receive bitcoins but these can't be spent For more to learn check this thread the posts from BurtW https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1168745.0 |
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Amph
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September 03, 2015, 11:25:26 AM |
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i just hope the percentage of bitcoin lost is high. Makes mine worth way more.
dunno the bad side, would be that everyone will deal with micro number all the time, if too many coins are lost i know that many want their precious coins to be rounded, using mbtc and micro sometimes is confusing |
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centauribit
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September 08, 2015, 01:55:49 AM |
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i just hope the percentage of bitcoin lost is high. Makes mine worth way more.
the amount of accessible bitcoins will continue to decrease as bitcoins are "lost". It doesn't matter for the usability of bitcoin in a technical sense because they are infinitely divisible. Lost bitcoins probably help push the price up if anything. |
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shane
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September 08, 2015, 02:01:21 AM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
ohh shittt, That is very bad, are you not have any back up key ? or back up wallet ?  i have some Old address, where i can't acces it, but balance not much, only 500-1m satosi |
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butdabass
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September 08, 2015, 09:01:19 AM |
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this is not important,and i dont care about lost bitcoin |
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xhoneyael
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September 08, 2015, 09:57:31 AM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
it also happen to me sometime but password i use is not that too many so that i can get it back my account.. and if i use some random password i store it somewhere .. maybe you need to do that also.. |
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mallard
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September 08, 2015, 10:02:17 AM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
Yeah I've also lost a couple of BTC due to mistakes like that. Now I'm using a password manager (on a usb stick) Do you have a backup? USB flash drives don't tend to last that long, or you might lose it. |
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September 08, 2015, 12:10:49 PM
Last edit: September 08, 2015, 12:36:03 PM by S4VV4S |
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I am really curious to know how many coins this buddy lost: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173700.0It has to be over 100 if he is offering a 20 BTC reward for anyone who can help him recover it. EDIT: There was around 138 coins in the lost wallet/address. |
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lorylore
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September 08, 2015, 01:52:18 PM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
Yeah I've also lost a couple of BTC due to mistakes like that. Now I'm using a password manager (on a usb stick) Do you have a backup? USB flash drives don't tend to last that long, or you might lose it. I dont like USB flash drives too, it can be easily corrupted. Before few years i had so much information in USB when i formatted my pc and when i wanted to restore(put them back) the usb was corrupted. So i prefer more having multi backups, like in cloud(google drive, dropbox), USB, CD/DVD, etc... I am really curious to know how many coins this buddy lost: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173700.0It has to be over 100 if he is offering a 20 BTC reward for anyone who can help him recover it. EDIT: There was around 138 coins in the lost wallet/address. That's very pity, it was accidentally and i think no chance to get them back. |
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TibanneCat
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September 08, 2015, 02:05:19 PM |
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I just accidentally sent 2.4BTC to a wallet that I have forgotten the password for. Not calling them lost yet, but I'm racking my brain for hours and no luck.
Assuming this is a desktop wallet and you have a vague idea of what the password might be, you should really give this a try https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecoverGood luck! |
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traderbit
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September 10, 2015, 07:55:07 AM |
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Everytime someone gets poorer by losing coins, we all get richer because we now own a larger percentage of the total amount of bitcoins that will ever be created.
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September 10, 2015, 08:04:01 AM |
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I have lost about 0.01BTC when i used bitcoin core. I re-installed my operating system because it had some problems. I forgot to copy my backup key to my phone. Not only bitcoin, i also lost about 800 doge ( small ammount but they're my first dogecoin ) when i re-flashed my android and i forgot my google authenticator.
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September 10, 2015, 09:22:38 AM |
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Everytime someone gets poorer by losing coins, we all get richer because we now own a larger percentage of the total amount of bitcoins that will ever be created.
There is no way of knowing how many coins are lost so i dont think it will affect the price. Total market cap of bitcoin will always be based of the total number mined and that is the number the market look at. Lost coins are just lost and nothing else... |
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