Have you ever been stolen or lost your BTC?

[Mttewndew]

I would definitely not hold my crypto on the exchanges (at least not much); they are probably the undisputed leaders in terms of the loss of funds.

[GreenStox]

everyone must have known that when I first learned about bitcoin until now I would have experienced bitcoin theft, some time ago I lost the bitcoin that I had, I was affected by the place of cloud mining and they took away the money that I invested through the cloud mining website and it turns out it was a fake mining place and finally made the bitcoin that I had disappeared instantly.

[ScamViruS]

The hacker never stole my BTC. But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.

[shoreno]

The hacker never stole my BTC.

lol . maybe he didnt like your btc ? but how much balance do you own on your online wallet or on online accounts  ? if its not that big  , hackers wont be interested on it   .  i only kept a small balance on my crypto wallet and i dont also got hacked because the balance that i hodl were only small  .

But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.

oh that was bad  .  he didnt have an anti virus ? he should have scan the file at the first place  . its still his own fault on why he lost his coins  because he believe on random offers which should ignored at the first place  .  8k usd is kinda bit big but he lost it totally   , he should learnt his lesson by there

[jrrsparkles]

The hacker never stole my BTC.

lol . maybe he didnt like your btc ? but how much balance do you own on your online wallet or on online accounts  ? if its not that big  , hackers wont be interested on it   .  i only kept a small balance on my crypto wallet and i dont also got hacked because the balance that i hodl were only small  .

But a friend of mine has fallen victim to the hack. He lost about $8k. He received an email with 2 BTC offers. The hacker told to download the wallet via email, and he downloaded the wallet. The hacker takes control of his entire PC, and the hacker gains access to myetherwallet. Hack all the tokens in the wallet.

oh that was bad  .  he didnt have an anti virus ? he should have scan the file at the first place  . its still his own fault on why he lost his coins  because he believe on random offers which should ignored at the first place  .  8k usd is kinda bit big but he lost it totally   , he should learnt his lesson by there

If we never give an opportunity for some to steal out btc then its not possible for anyone to steal or hack,so from the above user we can understand whole thing if we don't do any stupid things then our bitcoins will be completely safe.To OP every wallet is safe until our wallet details got exposed in some ways.

[cotton ball]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

Where did you save or hold your bitcoin assets now? did you save your bitcoin in exchange wallet or you save your assets in ledger wallet, I think you can safe your assets bitcoin any where is safety for exchange wallet you have use big or popular exchange have higher trusted score like Binance or Bittre and gate io, but for ledger wallet is very safety for save you bitcoin assets for long time.

[gunungkembar]

I once lost the bitcoin I owned and it happened a few months ago, I sent bitcoin to my wallet connected to my smartphone, but when I was on the road without my knowledge my assets were lost and the thieves sent to other wallets, I felt phished in my smartphone.

[DarkIT]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

Regarding this matter, until now I have held the assets that I have at a local exchanger, and I think it is safer. I did that because a few years ago, I lost some of the bitcoin that I had in my blockchain wallet. Well, it made me a little bit beaten considering how difficult it was to collect bitcoin. Since then, I always hold the assets that I have in the exchangers. indeed there are quite a lot of pros and cons regarding this, but I am more confident with local exchangers, and I can access them at any time.

I always thought of having a hard wallet, I thought it was much safer, but I couldn't do it due to some personal reasons.

[Peashooter]

I lost a bitcoin before in which it is I am starting trading back then and I don't have any enough knowledge about cryptocurrency that's why I tried to dive in the cryptoworld so that I can gain extra knowledge about it. And when I am starting to earn in that trading platform it begun to I can't withdraw my earnings and they say that it is unavailable those times so I just ignored it and one day the trading platform system become down then it doesn't paid off my earnings and my hardworks for trading on that platform.

[darewaller]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

The person is not far from truth because it is never advisable for anyone to really keep his or her coins in any exchange because no matter the security that we think the exchange has, there are always very terrible hackers out there that will always take advantage of these exchanges weakness which they will always find out, although sometimes, it could be very difficult to get the loop holes of these exchanges except it is coming through someone that really knows the exchange very well.

I mean an internal person, but all the same, it is better to make use of private wallet that one can actually have his or her private keys to it, once we have our private keys and we use a strong password, I think we should be good to go about it.

[Colt81]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

No. i haven't lost or got stolen my BTC or other cryptocurrencies because i am very careful when it comes to my funds, but i knew a friend who lost his funds because while my friend was away from his trip he accidentally lost his bag where his ledger or hardware wallet and phone are both inside his bag, and he got really depressed after that incident. I think using a hardware wallet is the safest way to store all of your funds because it is not prone for hacking unlike online wallets, but you should not misplace it and you should hide in a safe place with your private keys, and also do not bring it along with your long way trips like my friend did to avoid lost.

[brokaine]

  I was once broken into while AirBnb'ing for a single night and a funeral.

They stole 2 laptops, 4 phones, all my backup hard drives (I was only 40min away from home and needed to get some work done that night) and every cable I owned (Who steals cheap power cables, is it not too much effort and loud to unplug??). Anyway, that night I was in the middle of moving some crypto from a secure wallet to a temp wallet to complete a transaction the next morning once confirmations cleared. The funny part... They stole all my stuff and never touched the crypto. The temp wallet is still out there, wondering the earth just waiting for someone to find it.

To the person that finds it... "You lucky duck, I hope you do something cool, like fund a way to track me down and give me back my laptop, that would be so nice."

[Wysi]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

No. i haven't lost or got stolen my BTC or other cryptocurrencies because i am very careful when it comes to my funds, but i knew a friend who lost his funds because while my friend was away from his trip he accidentally lost his bag where his ledger or hardware wallet and phone are both inside his bag, and he got really depressed after that incident. I think using a hardware wallet is the safest way to store all of your funds because it is not prone for hacking unlike online wallets, but you should not misplace it and you should hide in a safe place with your private keys, and also do not bring it along with your long way trips like my friend did to avoid lost.

I have lost a good amount of bitcoin by missing the key for blockchain and only god know what was the password as I literally tried every single password I could remember but it didn't work. I had saved some bitcoins when it's value was somewhere around $400 and then realized it's worth when it was over $2,000 but unfortunately I could not retrieve it. I still regret it and learnt a lesson of saving all the details in the email as well.

[Coinpush]

It would be interesting to know just how much BTC has been lost, eg. stolen computers, lost hard drives, forgotten private keys.

[StayFly]

Well, for me I store all my bitcoins and altcoins in online wallets such as Xapo, MyEtherWallet, and Blockchain. No one ever stole my bitcoin or altcoins because I don't play when it comes to securing my private keys. I take my online wallet security very seriously, I use secure passwords and always activate my 2FA authentication.   

[Asmonist]

I lost my btc in trading. I just left it for how many months. There was an email sent to me that I need to withdraw it but unfortunately I have read it after the due date. I regret about it and I realize I must regularly check my emails.

[MathGame]

Never lost bitcoin in the name of Hacking or something like that in the past because I store my bitcoins on desktop wallets called Exodus and Jaxx. these are among the most robust bitcoin wallets ever created for desktop. I also don't like the idea of keeping my bitcoins on the exchanges due to the hacking issue. I feel more safer keeping my bitcoins on my PC than crypto exchanges.

[Oneandpure]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

Stolen bitcoin assets because our fault with using incorrect link when access to bitcoin website, I ever lost my bitcoin assets in my exchange account because I click unknow link sent to my gmail, I don't know about this link and have lost about 0.1 BTC when bitcoin still $500, but if bitcoin price not $8 I have lost about 800$ in my wallet.

[Edraket31]

Recently I've heard someone's speech about keeping BTC on the exchange is not safe. But the same thing may be fair to other types of wallets — it's all about the pros and cons, isn't it?
There must be a comparison based on the number of incidents, statistics, etc.
I mean, ok, let's consider this article as a detailed guide for different types of wallets — there's an explanation, principles of working, advantages and disadvantages — but how do you actually know, which wallet will be safe? How did you choose your current wallet?

Where do you keep crypto? Have you ever been stolen?

Stolen bitcoin assets because our fault with using incorrect link when access to bitcoin website, I ever lost my bitcoin assets in my exchange account because I click unknow link sent to my gmail, I don't know about this link and have lost about 0.1 BTC when bitcoin still $500, but if bitcoin price not $8 I have lost about 800$ in my wallet.

That's so sad to hear that there are lots of phishing link in all aspect via gmail, telegram any even in facebook but, so far, not yet a victim of phishing link as I am very much careful with everything that I am clicking. I don't want to get hacked so I am very careful with it, especially in telegram as you will receive a lot of virus sending you in PM.

[Mike Mayor]

I am careful what I do and try to check where I am sending my crypto to. I have lost a lot of crypto sending bch to a bitcoin address on localbitcoins.
I also signed up for an online eth wallet which I later couldn't access after being paid out a lot for a bounty I know you must not use online wallets but eth had just come out and there were not that many wallets to choose from. Many people lost out because of that. Now I use a hardware wallet and will never use anything else again. NEVER USE AN ONLINE WALLET!!