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Question: How much money have you lost in Bitcoin or Bitcoin-related ventures?
>$100k
$50-100k
$10-50k
$5000 - 9999
$1000 - 4999
$100 - 999
Less than $100
None/I don't know/I don't care

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September 22, 2012, 10:23:08 PM
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How much money (in BTC and fiat) have you lost in Bitcoin-related trades or investments or USD investments related with offers on this forum? Due to BTC volatility I am using USD in the poll.

I myself have lost about $198 (to Andrew Nollan shakaru).

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September 22, 2012, 10:32:12 PM
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2 BTC, losing my wallet to a corrupt windows and then a reinstall. Yay.
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September 23, 2012, 01:59:56 AM
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There should be negative choices as some of us make a living with bitcoin. Smiley

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September 23, 2012, 02:04:05 AM
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There should be negative choices as some of us make a living with bitcoin. Smiley

well obviously most of us have made money, the thread is about those entries in the loss column

I had 10 BTC sitting in bitcoinica...thought I was being smart by spreading my exchange risk off of GOX

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September 23, 2012, 04:09:57 AM
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Fortunatelly never lost any Bitcoins!
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September 23, 2012, 05:24:47 AM
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Just making money so far Smiley luckily!

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September 23, 2012, 10:02:38 AM
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There should be negative choices as some of us make a living with bitcoin. Smiley

Overall I have made some money but the poll is only about losses.
I know a lot of money was lost in hacks (bitcoinica, lineode, bitcoin7, mybitcoin, etc https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0 ) and of course with Pirate.

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September 23, 2012, 09:18:44 PM
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5k to scam by btcguy and another $5 at bitfloor

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September 23, 2012, 11:06:30 PM
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1.90210029 BTC, Bitfloor

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September 23, 2012, 11:07:33 PM
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5 BTC, Pirate@40.

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September 25, 2012, 02:45:27 PM
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2.8 BTC, back when I was mining, bitcoinpool.com withdraw address was changed to whatever, I wasn't there to monitor so the payment went to whomever. They said it was a hack, facepalm when it looked like they got injected and used cheap PW hashing on top.
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September 25, 2012, 07:30:39 PM
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2.8 BTC, back when I was mining, bitcoinpool.com withdraw address was changed to whatever, I wasn't there to monitor so the payment went to whomever. They said it was a hack, facepalm when it looked like they got injected and used cheap PW hashing on top.

Had a similar thing happen to me but only lost 0.1 BTC but the fault was mine as I reused my password on slush pool and some other exchange/pool/website that got hacked.

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September 25, 2012, 08:43:00 PM
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BTC2.50 lost to iamtheone and his HungerCoins Invest scam.  Haven't quite recovered it in mining income yet.

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September 25, 2012, 08:53:09 PM
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I feel like anyone who has made much has lost a little somewhere along the way.  I know I have, often to my own fault for not more carefully verifying who I was lending to or investing in a sketch business, but that is what has also allowed me to make more than what I have lost.

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