I just lost my entire wallet of 13 BTC.

[juiceannabel]

very deep condolence for you. if i were you, maybe i would end up like you too.
i hope the culprit of your wallet change their heart because they see you in this forum.

[thecodebear]

The topic of this thread brings up a good point about a place where crypto is very lacking. Crypto is only secure in cold storage, but you can't spend from cold storage, and it is an annoying process to move your coins from cold storage, leave some in a hot wallet for spending, and move the rest back to a new cold storage address. That is all far to complicated and confusing for the average user. There needs to be a simple, quick, secure, and automated way to move cold storage funds to a hot wallet. And hot wallets need to be secure. We should never have to worry about our money being stolen simply because we have a mobile wallet or a wallet on our laptop. If storing crypto in hot wallets isn't super secure then crypto will never be used as a payment platform and will never evolve past a store of value to be held for long periods in cold storage.

[mindrust]

The topic of this thread brings up a good point about a place where crypto is very lacking. Crypto is only secure in cold storage, but you can't spend from cold storage, and it is an annoying process to move your coins from cold storage, leave some in a hot wallet for spending, and move the rest back to a new cold storage address. That is all far to complicated and confusing for the average user. There needs to be a simple, quick, secure, and automated way to move cold storage funds to a hot wallet. And hot wallets need to be secure. We should never have to worry about our money being stolen simply because we have a mobile wallet or a wallet on our laptop. If storing crypto in hot wallets isn't super secure then crypto will never be used as a payment platform and will never evolve past a store of value to be held for long periods in cold storage.

That's why you need to have 2 different wallets for 2 different purposes.

One of them should be a wallet for your daily purchases. You shouldn't be keeping more than a couple of hundreds in this wallet.

And the other would be a hodl only wallet, created offline with a airgap PC by the Bitcoin Core wallet... This wallet only should have incoming transactions. Because that's your retirement account.

[19Nov16]

Oh, poor! Bad news. I can't imagine such a situation as this is really awful! If I had such, I think I would be in depression for long. However, I don't have 13 bitcoins) but for the future I will do my best to make sure that i won't lose it

From this lesson we must be careful, put bitcoin on one wallet is a very risky thing, we have to divide bitcoin into some wallet so if there is problem or missing on one wallet then we still have another, and of course is to distinguish every password in wallet . Good luck.

[Nicol3]

I hope you get at least a little amount of what you lost but this serves everyone a lesson, and most especially to those who are new to the crypto world and who wants to invest in their life savings. Always put in mind that if you invest in something, you are ready to lose everything because if that amount hurts you then I think it is more than what you are capable of losing. Invest only on an amount you are ready to lose, that should be placed as rule number 1 in trading.

[JollyGood]

The topic of this thread brings up a good point about a place where crypto is very lacking. Crypto is only secure in cold storage, but you can't spend from cold storage, and it is an annoying process to move your coins from cold storage, leave some in a hot wallet for spending, and move the rest back to a new cold storage address. That is all far to complicated and confusing for the average user. There needs to be a simple, quick, secure, and automated way to move cold storage funds to a hot wallet. And hot wallets need to be secure. We should never have to worry about our money being stolen simply because we have a mobile wallet or a wallet on our laptop. If storing crypto in hot wallets isn't super secure then crypto will never be used as a payment platform and will never evolve past a store of value to be held for long periods in cold storage.

Valid point about send coins to cold storage back then back to hot wallet and back to cold wallet in order partially spend your balance.

In future this might be tackled when upgrades take place until then it is a pain to go through a lengthy process. Many people lost coins when sending from their paper wallets to other wallets because they did not know how to do it properly.

[alvinmtp]

That is terrible news and im very sorry for you. Dont let it ruin crypto for you. There are so many people that have lost lots of money by making simple mistakes like sending 60k to the wrong address and having it just be dusted. The good news is we are all still early to the game. Try and get your head straight and make some smart investments. You can make it all back over the next few years. An additional thing I would suggest is using 2FA. I know that wasnt the issue here but it is worth taking every step possible to secure your investments. Keep your head up.

[13risingforce]

I am sorry for the loss of your bitcoin which I think is very much. May you remain besabar and spirit to get it again.

Looks like bitcoin storage wallet is still very vulnerable from the hackers, there are still many cases of loss experienced by people. Whether it's because of our fault or indeed the security of the wallet is still very lacking, it's hard to trace it. Obviously we have to keep all the passwords and privatekey of our wallet,

[MrRiuss]

I'm really really sorry for your loss, 13BTC is a very big amount. hope you can let it go and face the future as usual again.

[BigBos]

I'm really really sorry for your loss, 13BTC is a very big amount. hope you can let it go and face the future as usual again.

well, i do not know what to do. 13 btc is really that much money for now, there are even some predictions that bitcoin prices will really skyrocket. well, I'm sorry about that. hopefully someday it will be replaced.

[loof99]

Losing my entire wallet of thirteen (13) bitcoins and what amount it is, its either higher or lower amount it is one of the bad days and horrible day that might happen to me because losing is not good at all.

[Anjing Lu]

Of course this is sad, losing 13 btc or about $ 125k, luckily i never had bitcoin more than 5 btc because i always thought that bitcoin could disappear anytime so the safest way is by exchange to fiat and transfer to account.

[JollyGood]

The OP was registered on 2nd May 2018 and last active 4th May 2018 - today is 11th May 2018

As sad as this unfortunate event was it is time to let it go and stop posting here just as the OP has too.

[keziakusayang]

that's a lot, you should be more careful in maintaining the privacy of your wallet, do not expect it will come back, no good thief. try to be more careful ahead again.

[alihassan99]

oh really sad mate... always store your keys of wallet safe guys.. and never invest in crypto everything that if you get loss you are end with it :p

[Herressy]

that's a lot, you should be more careful in maintaining the privacy of your wallet, do not expect it will come back, no good thief. try to be more careful ahead again.

this is so much thing that you have to regret for but doing things that we all know this is so much thing to make this more better and not to count lose or for what you have to loss for is so much good to take on we are here to make our mistake to be right on and to be learn too.

[Renampun]

Cautionary Tale: I messed up. Big time. Please don’t pile on harder as I’m already sick to my stomach.

NEVER EXPOSE YOUR BTC KEYS/Seed to an forked wallet.

Two days ago, I attempted to split my BTC Diamond and BTC Private. I could not get it.

At some point, I exposed my Ledger Nano with my BTC on it, to each of their Electrum Wallets.

Last night, my wallet was emptied of ALL my BTC, 13+ coins.

Here is the transaction.


Transaction Identifier: d96a7dcd9775456e36938ed2cb84e9d0cac46fad14b8c95008ed77d08f9f8de6

Went to: 3LsvHPBGuEVLZZDUiUuNdNi33T7zmTBC7o

Here’s a signed message so you know I HAD controller of the wallet.
I’m not scamming, just utterly sick to my stomach for losing 13+ BTC.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
@TheShillBilly Twitter

I've lost all my coins. Please help ANYONE. If you stole them
Please return them! Please Please Please!  RT to help...

-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1QFFas4xGSy1p1Kj2ghyD6BJhVDmwWmyKb
H744TwI8rhqMHinDQdTtYiw3JGie9oC/p6XaUcPz25pzUcEoK0cakF0p1mBPZehnJk1PP8JgtEgte2OvDZXAr3g=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

It appears that I have now lost my entire life savings. I’m not begging for a handout but rather attempting to warn anyone new to the space. I’m sick to my stomach with the loss and my only hope is to gain the attention of the culprit.

If you have any space in your heart, please return the BTC. I’d accept a fraction of what was stolen. Please don’t completely bankrupt me.

this is why I always keep Bitcoin and Ethereum in my trusty Wallet Exchanger, because the exchanger site I use and almost every major exchanger site has security and receives complaints very well...

[Good Bo]

I'm really really sorry for your loss, 13BTC is a very big amount. hope you can let it go and face the future as usual again.

well, i do not know what to do. 13 btc is really that much money for now, there are even some predictions that bitcoin prices will really skyrocket. well, I'm sorry about that. hopefully someday it will be replaced.

Thirteen bitcoin is not that easy to earn. If I know that I am holding that amount in my wallet, I would like to cash it out as soon as possible. I feel that my wallet very attractive to hackers. So cash it out in order to secure it much more. Better to deposit it in a bank or better to keeo it in my house.

[TheShillBilly]

The OP was registered on 2nd May 2018 and last active 4th May 2018 - today is 11th May 2018

As sad as this unfortunate event was it is time to let it go and stop posting here just as the OP has too.

Hi JollyGood, I’m sorry if my lack of response is out of the ordinary. I have been following along with each post.

To be quite honest, I’m utterly devastated by the events that have led me to this point. Never have I felt such a magnitude of anxiety and depression. I’m a good man, work hard, and have a generally positive worldview of humanity. This experience is truly testing that worldview and its cross with the functionality of Bitcoin. To have made mistakes so tragically unforgivable is a really hard thing to swallow. I don’t know how to find a steady breath and heartbeat again. I’m so freaking devastated with my mistake, I don’t know what to do. I can’t sleep. I can hardly eat. My mind is garbage at work. The world is really dark right now with my belief in humanity, at the margins, at an all time low.

If anyone knows the person who holds the keys, I’m begging from the bottom of my heart.

Please don’t wipe me out.

[3acaga]

Yes, the situation is not very pleasant ; (
All the advice and reproaches you already sdes expressed. I ask you not to lose heart, please, on this your life is not finished. Make conclusions for yourself and live on your life. Good luck ...