Lost Bitcoin

[erdehimmel]

I had a Bitcoin on Mycelium before the first fork.  Lately I transfered the Bitcoin on a paperwallet.  Then I had the foolish ideal to sweep the paper wallet (which was holding only a bitcoin(BTC)) with the Electron CASH (BCH) wallet.  The Bitcoin (BTC) vanished.  Anybody understand what could have happened to the Bitcoin(BTC)?  I later could get out of the Mycelium Wallet the Bitcoin Cash(BCH) and the Boitcoin Gold(BTG).  But the original Bitcoin (BTC) is nowhere to be found.  Any idea?

[Goorobo]

It sounds like it must have automatically converted your BTC into BCH and BTG. Without knowing more info it would be difficult to know for sure

[erdehimmel]

No.  Please read carefully.  Neither BCH nor BTG have been transfered to the paper wallet.  All these transactions happened after the two forks.  On the paper wallet was only a BTC, which have been swept by a BCH wallet.  Then nothing in the BCH wallet and nothing in the BTC paper wallet.

[AlaitisalKhayr]

I am sorry to hear that, I don't know what is this. Why they do fork if its dangerous for bitcoin? I don't know much about how cryptocurrency works. But I hope there is no more people who lost their bitcoin.

[De Suga09]

It sounds like it must have automatically converted your BTC into BCH and BTG. Without knowing more info it would be difficult to know for sure

Just like gold bars can be lost at sea or $100 bills can be burned, bitcoins can also disappear from the Internet forever. When all 21 million bitcoins are mined by the year 2040, the actual amount available to trade or spend will be significantly lower.

[pooya87]

~to sweep the paper wallet (which was holding only a bitcoin(BTC)) with the Electron CASH (BCH) wallet.  The Bitcoin (BTC) vanished. 

are you sure your "bitcoin" has vanished?
you are using a bitcoin address in a bitcoin cash wallet. that wallet (being Electron Cash) is obviously showing your Bitcoin Cash balance of the imported address which should be zero!

check your address in a block explorer or import it in a bitcoin wallet (like Electrum) and see if the balance is still there or not.

[Goorobo]

There was a guy in the U.K. who accidentally trashed a hard drive with 30,000BTC on it in 2010 he spent months searching his local landfill for it to no avail. He probably hates the interwebs about right now.

[scs3jb]

Look here and you will be able to see where you sent it:
https://blockchain.info/
Paste your paper wallet public address in the top search.

What i suspect is you moved your bitcoin to one of the wallet addresses electron generated, so you'd need to use the same seed with electrum to see the btc.  Old versions of electron were using the bitcoin network not the bitcoin cash network, only seems to work after 3.x.

I recently moved my coins and electron was buggy as all hell before 3.x