Have you ever lost access to your Bitcoins?

[minairia3]

When you lost access to your bitcoin wallet try to contact with support team of your exchange account, before late you can ask him about your trouble and they will try to resolve all your terrible with bitcoin and altcoin exchange account.

I dont see recovering from an exchange wallet can be easily do. Exchange doesnt even have their own PK as they are the one holding your coins the only concern they can help you is when you get hacked but only few exchange accept this, as potential hoax is on your side. Its so easy to say that you got hacked but its also you whom transfer this and reason like this isnt accepted if you eant to claim your loss fund. That's why exchange keep reminding to keep your account safe from all cost cause they are not liable for it except if their exchange has been breached by someone and your funds included on the hacked coins.

[Gotumoot]

Actually common problems in not accessing the wallet is
forget the Private keys which is very important because we can't access again our wallet. / That's why always careful in storing this keys.  

And in my experience when I was a newbie i lost access to my wallet that contains 0.2 BTC before and price of this before are only 50 USD. Which is not hurt me but when price Increase this give me frustrations to open again because i can't still find private keys.  I accidentally deleted this in my social media messages drop.

[Dr.Osh]

I only ever get a case like this on the HYIP website. when I invested there and couldn't access the bitcoin that I had because I thought it was a scam site.
in other cases, I have never had a case like that, except for a bitcoin theft because I entered a phishing site. however, so far I have kept my private keys well and my passwords stored in a safe place. so I can always access it.

[hahay]

So far I personally have never lost access to any wallet that I used after a past event about losing access to an exchange, at least after that incident I have always been more thorough in terms of storing all security data. Yes, I have never lost access to my wallet since I was in this market, but I have lost access to an exchange in the past, and the only regret is that I kept at least a few altcoins on the exchange until I finally tried to be patient because I lost all crypto I have there, while basically these altcoins have the potential for the long term, even now I still see very good growth.

[JoMarrah Iarim Dan]

What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?

I am very careful with my bitcoins. I do make sure that the wallet of my bitcoin is secured, that I can always access it and easily recover it in case of some problems. But some of my coins are in myether wallet which I have not opened for a long time. I still have my private key but myether wallet took a lot of upgrade in since the time I last opened my account as well as my kucoin account. I tried to retrieve it all and luckily after few days of confirmation, I opened it and get back coins.

[Quidat]

What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?

Ive tried it once but luckily it is just a small amounts of coins stored on an online wallet and ran away all of the funds.
Retreiving it back? Theres no way on doing that once you have lost then its lost forever. This is why its important that
we should store out coins and keep its PK away from other people.As said, not your keys then not your coins.

Ive lost once when im still newbie but it did never happen once again.

[Palider]

I  lose some Bitcoin because I Store all crypto in one app.
 

What you need to do is always careful in choosing wallet and much better to use wallet that you hold your private key

When you lost access to your bitcoin wallet try to contact with support team of your exchange account, before late you can ask him about your trouble and they will try to resolve all your terrible with bitcoin and altcoin exchange account.

Well,  some problems can't solved especially if we using Decentralized Wallet,  those wallet that we hold our private key because if we lose our privatekeys we cannot access again our wallet.  That's why always have back up copy of this and don't tell to other your private key because they can access our wallet.

[erikalui]

I got hacked because I installed an unknown wallet whose owner was trustworthy but turned out to be a scammer. Lost $150 in the hack in 2017. I also lost access to my coinbase wallet as for some unknown reason I couldn't login with 2FA but since the wallet was empty, I did not bother but coinbase is not trustworthy as such 3rd-party wallets act as if your money is theirs and freeze your account. 1xapo did the same after which I had to verify myself and access my account.

[dothebeats]

My electrum wallet with a few bits in it. This was back in 2015 when I happened to lost the backup file on that particular wallet. For all I know, I saved that on 3 sifferent pendrives but lo and behold, all 3 of them were reformatted and I haven't got the chance to recover the said file. It took a couple of months before I stumbled upon a wallet file on my SD card and to my surprise, it was a backup of that same wallet. Sure enough, there weren't anything big to lose but then again, it's my history in that wallet.

[fullhdpixel]

What is your story of not being able to access your Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoins in them.

What have you tried to retrieve them?

I haven't lost access to bitcoins like that but I remember when I was new to bitcoins I was first introduced to blockchain.info and I made a new wallet there with some temporary email because I didn't knew giving my mail email id was safe and worth it. Then after a few days when I tried to login, it said that an email has been sent to your email since you are logging in from new browser and since I used a temporary email I actually could never open my wallet again but I don't know if I had any bitcoins left over because I did some work as a freelancer and got paid in bitcoins which I believe I sold right away after keeping in blockchain wallet for little while.

I still wonder if some BTC are there but not quite sure and absolutely no way to retrieve them.

[Genemind]

My first wallet, i generate it and i forget where i put the private key.

What have you tried to retrieve them?

Just checking where i put my private key, but can't find it, so i gave up.

I have the same experience and honestly, it's really frustrating. I have tried to think of different ways just to remember my private keys just to access my old wallet account but I didn't make it so I gave up as well. That's a lesson learn for me that I shouldn't be mindful of my private keys and that it should be kept as an important treasure. I wish I could turn back time so I could recover the earnings that I have lost.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Yes, I have lost access to my Bitcoin few times before. When I wasn't that much experienced in bitcoin trading, I used to trade in sites that were not trusted and also not very secure. I’ve lost millions of my Raiblocks MRI token (XRB) on BitGrail exchange. From then, I always try to search the ratings and feedbacks of the site and then trade my coins.

[alexsandria]

Yes, I have lost access to my Bitcoin few times before. When I wasn't that much experienced in bitcoin trading, I used to trade in sites that were not trusted and also not very secure. I’ve lost millions of my Raiblocks MRI token (XRB) on BitGrail exchange. From then, I always try to search the ratings and feedbacks of the site and then trade my coins.

actually it is really a good practice . You must review and have a proper research whenever you are accessing a different websites like trading platform or exchanges or anything that has need to login your accounts that has binded on your wallets and etc. This must really need a proper research and good ratings are positive feedbacks by other users and order for you to convince that this website is legit one in order to oh if it is secure or not.

[angrybirdy]

No, actually I am still using the same wallet I use the first time I have my first bitcoin.
It is a mobile wallet exclusive only in my country and what I do to protect it is, I never expose it to anyone and remain as my main wallet where I store and save enough bitcoins for the future bull run.

[Yamifoud]

No, actually I am still using the same wallet I use the first time I have my first bitcoin.
It is a mobile wallet exclusive only in my country and what I do to protect it is, I never expose it to anyone and remain as my main wallet where I store and save enough bitcoins for the future bull run.

It should but don't just be a hundred confidence the safety of your wallet unless you've been done with 2FA to further increase the safeguard of your wallet.
I once experienced when I woke up early morning I've found notification that someone wants to transfer funds from my wallet. I believe it was a hack (coz I don't make it) and luckily, that person never succeeds because it needs 2FA to confirm.

It was really important and putting our funds in online wallet is never been safe and that is the risk that we might prevent but can't really be avoided. It was our luck if we don't get to that problem otherwise, it is totally be lost forever.

[Lucius]

Not your keys, not your coins.

True and false at the same time. Having complete control over your private keys does not mean that you will not lose that control at any time, what has happened to many and is still happening today, and there is no doubt that it will continue in the future.

Personally, I'm not surprised at those who lost their private keys at a time when BTC could be mined with a regular computer, or you could buy 500 BTC for a few bucks, or get 5 BTC on a single claim on faucets. They can say, "easy come, easy go" given that they have invested very little value in order to get into Bitcoin, but they may be sorry that they did not recognize the potential behind the technology, because in that case they would have completely different treatment of their private keys, wallet files and passwords.

I never lost access to my coins, and I always try to improve my chances that this never happens, and to point out to others that they must pay close attention to the way they treat their investment.

[xSkylarx]

I have never lost an access to my wallet. I have been using my wallet for years now and I'm glad that I was able to handle it well. Keeping our private keys safe and being mindful of our actions are the secret so we'll never lost even a single amount of crypto. However, there are unnecessary circumstances where we mistakenly or accidentally lost our access to our wallets but we could learn from those experiences. Things will always rely on how responsible we are when it comes to handling our wallets as well as our funds.

[carriebee]

Gladly I never encounter losing access to my bitcoin wallet. As much as possible I have a back up all of my private keys in case I lost it. If we ever think of our btc that we have and a sudden lost we cannot retrieve it once your phrase or keys lost. It's very important to have our assets to be kept all the time.

[imstillthebest]

 so far i havent experienced this horible situation  . i can still access my bitcoin wallet properly because i keep the private keys , seeds and other methods to access the wallet on a safe place  ( on my laptop , usb flash drive , cell phone )  i also memorize my password  and usernames because there are bitcoin wallet that i use that needs password and username  . 

to someone that lost access to thier wallet,  we cant blame them because its normal that there are times you forgot or you missplaced your stuffs no matter how organized you are  .

[desertfox470]

This is probably one of the most unforgettable experiences I had ever since I started engaging with cryptocurrencies. I had just merely started exploring how things work in this forum and I have realized that coin storage is one of the things that I must think of having before starting to send out applications for signature campaigns and such. Due to the research that I have been making that time, I was bombarded with so much information, it slipped into my mind to save private keys and some authentication data especially for wallet recovery. I'm lucky enough to experience it earlier before I even started putting coins into my wallet. From then on, I became very vigilant in the information I am putting in each of my account, wallet or in any online profile, and to not forget saving these data in safe place.