Have you ever lost access to your Bitcoins?

[Oceat]

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.

Could it be you login to a different computer in the past and the hacker just finding the right time to make the move that's why it is better to not just put some 2FA but to change your password frequently to avoid the hacker to login to your details again when it is just finding the right time. I am doing it frequently because I am always worried that maybe the hacker is just finding the right time to login that's why I don't give them the chance to do it.

[Wintersoldier]

I only experience forgetting the pin and the password of my blockchain wallet because i have never opened my wallet since the year of march 2019 until august 2019 that i have been holding and waiting for the price of bitcoin to increased that time. Good thing i saved a document that i enlisted all of my password in my social media accounts, email account, and wallets.

[GideonGono]

I experienced this when I was a beginner in Cryptocurrencies when I was curious about wallets and where to store my earnings. So when I found that it was safer to put it in a Decentralized wallet this is what I used.
Almost many of us have experienced this, losing a copy of our Private keys. So here I know it needs to be taken care of as this is the only way I can reopen my wallet again.

[Destroyeroff98]

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

What have you tried to retrieve them?

Fortunately, I never lost my Bitcoins. I do not store my wallet in one place, I have many reserves. Which I advise everyone to do.

[wozzek23]

I never lost any bitcoins because of my own mistake but I have lost some because of others mistakes. Basically it was my mother's mistake and while I regret her mistake I cannot even think of blaming her because she was completely unaware of what she had done.

I kept my private word phrases written on a paper and kept in my personal desk where I used to keep a lot of other papers too, while I was away my mum decided to clean my room and she actually thought that paper was nothing but another piece of garbage and she burnt it with other papers in the backyard and I cannot even remember how much bitcoins was there because that wallet was just to save money for the next 10 years.

[coolcoinz]

I kept some of my coins on a local exchange and they had a bug where one of the users logged in and saw that his fiat deposit had multiplied. I think the comma was wrong. Anyway, had deposited 10k and the balance on his account was 1 mill, something of this sort. He used it to buy BTC and send it to his wallet and the owners of the exchange dailed to stop it. They had to take the whole site down for 3 days and most of us thought we won't be getting anything back but we did. They came back online and allowed everyone access to their accounts.
This gained them trust among some users but I took everything off the platform and never looked back. About a year later they did an exit scam and disappeared with everything, but not with my money.

[Sebas.tian]

Memories that hut my feelings whenever I remember. I use to have some good time with bounties which actually make me some good profits in doing them. If I remember, I was holding $420 in Blockchain wallet without me backing my pass phrase|backup, when I wanted to withdraw my funds from then, I tried to Long in to my wallet but all efforts prove aborted because I could not remembered my password and not even my backup was kept. That was how I lost what I gathered from bounties. It pains when I remember this because I was the caused of all of these.

[jostorres]

What I have experieced is that,

The time when I decided to save enough bitcoin in my desktop wallet. Since I am confident that I am the only one who's using my PC, I only save my private key on the notepad. After the time goes by, my PC suddenly gets blue screen of death, yes, a sudden issue with my computer's hardware or what. I got worried since I don't have any back up information for my wallet, and unfortunately I cannot access my wallet anymore after I fixed my PC.

Oh that's very unfortunate but I believe that if you had hardware problems and had blue screen issue then you should have contacted specialist because there is no way you would be loosing your data because of a hardware issue. Another thing you could have done was to eject your hard disk and just use it on another computer and save that file. But anyways things gone are gone and hindsight is always useless.

For me, I have never faced access issues but I have lost a bad number of bitcoins in exchanges that have turned scam or got hacked like the recent one is cryptopia, I don't know what happened to them.

[fiulpro]

Yes I did loose access to my bitcoins wallet once  , it was way before I could realise the value of those 5$ worth of bitcoins sitting in an online wallet , it was back in 2011-2012 , then after the big break , I remembered the wallet I had back then , but unfortunately I had no idea what was the online site or the password ( been ages since I thought this thing might work )
Then I took it as a lesson and then seriously started engaging in bitcoins .
I really respect bitcoins and the whole community that lets people earn money for supporting their lives , no matter how small , it's amazing 🙏

[barbara44]

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.

That is more a investing mistake rather than a technical mistake and yes even when I was new there were a lot of websites which claimed to send double back in 36 or 48 hours but I never fell for these scams because I was new to bitcoin but I was very familiar with online scams and there is no reason why someone will double my money in some hours.

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.

That almost happened with me too when myetherwallet had some issues with certificate and users were being redirected to another website when they clicked the certificate. I almost fell for it but because I saw that something is fishy I decided not to access wallet that day and proved to save my coins, you may read about it here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/24/17275982/myetherwallet-hack-bgp-dns-hijacking-stolen-ethereum

[Hannu]

I have bitcoin wallets on my phone and my laptop. Two-layer protection.

[pixie85]

I did not but I felt like I did so I know the feeling.

I had a cold wallet once that I knew the password to but did not open it for anything for over 2 years and when I wanted to check if everything is ok with it I struggled to enter the right password. I knew the words it consisted of but forgot which one was first and if there were any numbers in between and in the end. It took me maybe an hour of trying different combinations and nervously sweating to find the right one.

[Mahanton]

What I have experieced is that,

The time when I decided to save enough bitcoin in my desktop wallet. Since I am confident that I am the only one who's using my PC, I only save my private key on the notepad. After the time goes by, my PC suddenly gets blue screen of death, yes, a sudden issue with my computer's hardware or what. I got worried since I don't have any back up information for my wallet, and unfortunately I cannot access my wallet anymore after I fixed my PC.

Oh that's very unfortunate but I believe that if you had hardware problems and had blue screen issue then you should have contacted specialist because there is no way you would be loosing your data because of a hardware issue. Another thing you could have done was to eject your hard disk and just use it on another computer and save that file. But anyways things gone are gone and hindsight is always useless.

For me, I have never faced access issues but I have lost a bad number of bitcoins in exchanges that have turned scam or got hacked like the recent one is cryptopia, I don't know what happened to them.

It just really a simple problem when it comes to hardware aspects in talks of pc  yet there are harddrive recovery services out there even the entire OS had been reformatted it can still possibly retreive it back unless if the failure do affect hdd directly (burn etc.)

Losing access can be in various ways and in my part i have lots my coins due to exchange hack too which is unfortunate but well that one do give out some lesson that never ever store your coins on
exchange wallets.

[FlightyPouch]

I did lose access to my bitcoins one time and that is because of my stupidity. I forgot where I put my private key, the same with my altcoins since I accidentally deleted the JSON file and just realized that after clearing up my Recycle Bin. Take care of your bitcoins you guys, especially private keys, seeds and files like JSON. IF you have a lot to hold better buy a ledger.

[ralle14]

It happened to me twice, first one was from blockchain's wallet they suddenly had a maintenance with no announcement and it only lasted for a day.

The second time was from a gambling site similar case it went down for a certain time. Good thing I don't store anything big during those times.

[Latviand]

I honestly have not had any issue with the wallet the I am using to store my Bitcoin. There are people who have experienced losing their private keys which yield to such negative scenario. Some are being hacked, and some are being scammed. My opinion to this is to not give private information to anyone just to not be prone to being hacked. That is your money in the first place and you have the only rights to access that. Also avoid logging in into multiple devices using your wallet. If you are into online website wallets, always check the credibility as well as reviews from other people who have experienced engaging into that website just to be sure of not being scammed.

There are also hardware wallets wherein one investor could also store their holdings which provides additional security for your Bitcoin. But be careful of misplacing such hardware wallet because some hardware walleta do cost that much.

[fricks13]

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 experience that thing so far, I tried cryptotalk.org and you are required to enter your wallet address to input so you will be able to earn money from your posts, and luckily I am still earning on that platform because I input the correct wallet address.

If you do not want to experience that sad thing, always double check things that you are doing online, because if you made a wrong thing, it would be hard for you to recover things that have lost. We have the line of  "Click before you think", we can apply it anytime in virtual world because that is really important to avoid some errors that you might do. Double checking is not a hard thing, it is good especially when it is about money online.

[FanatMonet]

Thieves from Yobit blocked my account and simply stopped contacting me. While they promptly respond to others (I asked other people to check). By the way, need to write about this in the scam section when I have time.
A very good lesson for me is that you cannot trust scammers like Yobit.net.

[Sanugarid]

I only experience forgetting the pin and the password of my blockchain wallet because i have never opened my wallet since the year of march 2019 until august 2019 that i have been holding and waiting for the price of bitcoin to increased that time. Good thing i saved a document that i enlisted all of my password in my social media accounts, email account, and wallets.

I have also experienced this kind of thing also before and it is really frustrating because I didn't have any storage wherein I can save my wallet user and password but now I can say that every wallet have the 2-factor authentication which is very helpful so that if you forgot your password you can now get it again through email. And to be more secure I am saving my password on my computer so that if I forgot it once again I can get it on my documents. The mistake I've committed before must not happen again so I do save my password offline on my device. This must be a lesson to me and to everyone that we should have private documents wherein all of your password in your social media account, wallets, and your email is there so you can easily get it when forgotten.

[South Park]

The time when I decided to save enough bitcoin in my desktop wallet. Since I am confident that I am the only one who's using my PC, I only save my private key on the notepad. After the time goes by, my PC suddenly gets blue screen of death, yes, a sudden issue with my computer's hardware or what. I got worried since I don't have any back up information for my wallet, and unfortunately I cannot access my wallet anymore after I fixed my PC.

That is a really terrible thing, how much BTC did you lost because of that? This shows it is important to have several backups of our wallets, a simple way to backup your information is to store your keys in a text file and have a copy in an USB that way if your computer breaks you have a backup that will allow you to recover your coins, it is also a good idea to have a paper backup of your seed that way even if your USB fails as well you still have an additional way to recover your coins.