ANY BTC HOLDER WORST NIGHTMARE, and it happened to me...

[xskl0]

Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.

What hardware wallet did you bought?

[ubitcoin]

Did you lose the private key to 1DGLZ2cDMrUPor4CmWxjsVzzYSyimUUYbC?

If so you should probably take it out of your signature.

i see zero bitcoin there, can't be that, how many coin you lost with this password that you forgot? because i find also some times that i'm too paranoid, but not for small amount, but for big amount i usually keep them in cold storage to avoid any real trouble

This is a good idea to keep them in a cold storage. But talking about the amount is the real issue I think. The issue is the safety and what measures and precautions to be taken before any such thing happen to any other person. As there are many people who have lost lots of their coins due to failure of losing the password.

[Grike_SixEcho]

Sorry for your loss. Just put it behind you and think about how you can make that money back.

[cpfreeplz]

Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.

The only device to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet?  oh lord... no. Paper wallets are just as secure if you have them on something more secure than paper and they have a passphrase. I mean come on man, not even one is looking to buy a $100 piece of hardware to store $100 worth of bitcoins.

[European Central Bank]

i cannot wait for the day when we get facial recognition or something. my password collection is spiralling out of control and i'm forgetting them as fast as i'm making them. and no i don't trust password managers.

[rchstr]

sorry to hear about your loss. maybe you should learn a lesson now. you should save all data's and everything that has value to you.

[Mpamaegbu]

Hey guys,

I just want to share my story, because I feel like only people in this community can get that,

We all know the pizza story, the "young swede than became a millionaire in 2013" story, the lost hard drive story and this one that can happen to anyone:


======>I lost my passphrase. 6months ago, tried everything, even hired "bitcoin dave", nope, nothing, no password no bitcoin.


I was too scared to get hacked somehow or to let a piece of paper with indications about it... Now I'm screwed, I can't find it, no matter what I try my Bitcoins are lost forever. I always kept them, spent .10 of them once and that's it. All of my fortune behind this password was made through mining dogecoin on day one and other altcoins. And guess what, I lost the passphrase to the dogecoins too (1million Doge, could be worse)...
6 months ago I had a little financial down moment, decided to see if I could sell one, and discovered that I forgot the password.

Now, it would be the thing to save my ass (3,5 BTC is a good chunk of change for me) and be able to get back on my feet, and I feel so stupid.

Just wanted to share my experience, kinda looking for mental support here!

Take care (and remind yourself your passphrase everyday, you don't want this feeling I swear).

This is one of the greatest risks with this crypto stuff. Password this, passphrase that. But I thought the 12 words making the passphrase are supposed to be written out and kept somewhere safe. But OP, didn't you write them out or what?

Very sad story but a part of fault is on you, on user itself. If you are truly a BTC holder like you are saying then the only "device" to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet. They are easy to store, they are small you can store them in your personal shelf or rack where you keep your things. I am feeling very secure from almost a year now, since I bought the hardware wallet I really do not care anymore about my bitcoins security, I know they are safe.

The only device to keep your coins secure is a hardware wallet?  oh lord... no. Paper wallets are just as secure if you have them on something more secure than paper and they have a passphrase. I mean come on man, not even one is looking to buy a $100 piece of hardware to store $100 worth of bitcoins.

Have you ever thought a fire outbreak in the house when you aren't around and your hardware sitting pretty in your shelf?

BTW, can someone help me on how to locate the private keys. I have a wallet on the blockchain and another wallet from the Google playstore. How do I locate the private keys to these two different wallets?

[bettercrypto]

I'm sorry for your lost and thank you for sharing your story.  This will serve as a lesson to me to always keep a back up copy of my password, printed or saved in a separate flashdisk and keep it in a safe place.  I hope you can be able to remember you password one day and may this be a lesson to you too to not rely very much in human memory.  They mess up sometimes.

[Paashaas]

@Drumamat. I'm sorry for youre loss, you have my sympathy.

There is still hope to retrieve you coins. You can't remember youre password anymore however youre password is still sitting in youre head!

I advice you to take a holiday ore do some other stuff you used to do....just give youre brains something to do what you aint doing it on a daily base.

It might give you that ''eureka'' moment and you remember youre password again.

[emezh10]

Bitcoin holders worst nightmare is bitcoin price go down fast, bitcoin become been hack by someone surely they are gonna be panic, and also when the bitcoin holder just accidentally lost his/her password or private key in bitcoin wallet that is really a nightmare if that happened.