An BTC Assumption

[sunsilk]

There must be some reasons for that and have to recall everything that you've done to look at something to find fault from yourself. It won't just be gone for nothing and there's for sure some activities that has happened for which you've done unnoticedly.

Anyway, I've experienced that as well but only has to update the wallet. 

[serjent05]

What will you do with it?

Nothing?  What else can I do?  My crypto is gone, I cannot transact with zero cryptocurrencies.  Aside from figuring out why it was gone,  I would follow with the best answer I guess... 

I'd get on with my life

In addition, I will reformat everything and if possible would put another layer of security in my units (computer, gadgets, and room).  And improve the way I secure the backup of the seed phrases and keys. 

[drwhobox]

What will you do with it?

We can't be perfect, there is one way or another for hackers or insane people who want to rob, but what happened is happened right?
I will look for what the hell or how that happened for at least one month, if I lose everything I will spend a month for the reason that caused me everything.
After a month, I will search for a way to earn bitcoin/recover my loss again. I can't stop for a bad morning.

[Jason Brendon]

Exactly! That's the point i was trying to make. We never know. Things can happen.
Just like you would have never known in 2020 that there would be a war in Ukraine. (don't criticize, just a figure of speech, you get my point).

It can you that on day a backdoor/vulnerability is found, and some wallets got swept. And you happen to be one of them.

You never know.



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I have no idea what would I do if a situation similar to what you described happened to me, but I think that my first reaction would be tearing my hair out and running from corner to corner like a crazy person. But a situation like that may happen to everyone, even with those who practice good opsec because one day a critical vulnerability may be found that will allow hackers to empty all wallets, including ones created on an air-gapped computer with good random number generators. Hopefully, the open-source and decentralized nature of bitcoin development will enable developers, contributors, and reviewers to catch such bugs very early and take all necessary steps to minimize the harm.
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[Godday]

Hacking on every valuable site has indeed become a risk for every user, although the security that has been designed is so great but the point of weakness is definitely there, some hackers take advantage of the opportunity, then we as users who are victims of this have indeed become our risk, but we still have to be careful so that such a thing does not happen for ourselves, if a hack happens we can't do anything and something like that we don't want, then never get caught up in doing something that can indeed interfere with the security of our assets.

[mk4]

• Don't store all your bitcoins in one wallet

Not sure if I'd share the same opinion. While not storing all your bitcoin in one single wallet will decrease the chances of you losing your holdings in one unfortunate event, it increases the chances of you losing a part of your holdings.

[famososMuertos]

OP: Something went wrong in the self-custody process.  It's that simple, it's not about magic or mystery.

 It only remains first of all to have the mental strength to overcome the amount that is lost, then assume the personal challenge of having thought of a plan B and that this allows you to weigh the economic losses.

 Then try to check where you went wrong, in fact the difficult part of the whole process because the mistake of losing your funds is only yours and if you don't get it or detect it, you will lose your Funds again at some point, but through no one else's fault , the phrase system works well, it's simple, people fail in custody, either due to the classic online or offline error.

[klidex]

We don't know everything, right? There is always something, knowledge, or hacks in life that you don't know about.
Let's say you wake up in the morning only to find out your wallet has been emptied. Your savings are all gone.
But you were following all the security practices you can possibly can, like generate everything offline, good entropy, not using brain wallet and so on and so forth.
But your funds are gone.
What will you do with it?

I guess if that is the case then you can't do anything as we all know that once your crypto is gone, it's very hard to get it back because that's how it is design in the first place. You can call it wrong, but you have to accept that fact.

And so if you really have huge amount of bitcoin, maybe a hardware wallet or a airgap pc as your safe place to store it.

And if you are following all the security practices, then the only thing I can think of is that it could be a inside job, someone close to you might have gotten it.

What you mean is also true, If someone stores their Bitcoins in a hardware wallet and practice good security it will be difficult to get in and steal all the Bitcoins in it.
And I also believe that if an investor has a very large amount of bitcoin, they will dare to spend a little money to be able to guarantee security for the bitcoin wallet.
It is impossible and unreasonable for someone to store large amounts of bitcoins in just an ordinary wallet.

[Rruchi man]

Let's say you wake up in the morning only to find out your wallet has been emptied. Your savings are all gone.
But you were following all the security practices you can possibly can, like generate everything offline, good entropy, not using brain wallet and so on and so forth.

Too late to cry over spilled milk, best thing is to ensure that it doesn't repeat itself. And how do you ensure it doesn't repeat itself is by trying to breakdown and understand how you have found yourself in that situation, so you can best avoid it when you choose to begin getting bitcoins or whatever coins you lost again. I don't think one bad experience should make you change your mind about bitcoins even if you lost all you had. Get up, dust yourself and make better security plans because if you had done everything correctly, your wallet will not have been emptied.

[Yatsan]

Regarding OP's stated scenario, If ever I'd be waking up in one morning and see that my funds are gone, I'd probably check the transactions and if it is transferred to another wallet who I'm not familiar with, that would be it. Acceptance would be the only way out as well as knowing what could have wrong. I won't hope that funds will be returned especially in this industry. Best way is to just learn from it even if it is not an easy thing to do.

Let's say you wake up in the morning only to find out your wallet has been emptied. Your savings are all gone.
But you were following all the security practices you can possibly can, like generate everything offline, good entropy, not using brain wallet and so on and so forth.

Too late to cry over spilled milk, best thing is to ensure that it doesn't repeat itself. And how do you ensure it doesn't repeat itself is by trying to breakdown and understand how you have found yourself in that situation, so you can best avoid it when you choose to begin getting bitcoins or whatever coins you lost again. I don't think one bad experience should make you change your mind about bitcoins even if you lost all you had. Get up, dust yourself and make better security plans because if you had done everything correctly, your wallet will not have been emptied.

Regrets and frustrations won't be helped especially if you've lost something that important. But as I've mentioned, knowing what could possibly go wrong would lessen the burden especially if you are at fault for such instance. And if not, try seeking for possible reasons why such thing happened and try to contact the management of your wallet to somehow see what can you do to simply help oneself.

[crunck]

We don't know everything, right? There is always something, knowledge, or hacks in life that you don't know about.
Let's say you wake up in the morning only to find out your wallet has been emptied. Your savings are all gone.
But you were following all the security practices you can possibly can, like generate everything offline, good entropy, not using brain wallet and so on and so forth.
But your funds are gone.
What will you do with it?

Once your crypto assets, specifically bitcoins, have been stolen by hackers, there is no way to get them back, and nothing can be done but regret. Cryptocurrency investment is a risk, if you leave it on the floor, you will be afraid of the floor collapsing, if you leave it in a non-custod wallet, you will be attacked by hackers if you are not careful, there is always a risk. So only invest what you can afford to lose.

[coolcoinz]

There's always an entry point, a vulnerability, an exploit.

Say you do follow all the safety advice. You have funds divided into a number of wallets, you hold everything offline, you have backups, you don't store your passwords anywhere... What was the vulnerability? Did you let someone into your house? Was the backup physically taken and uploaded by the attacker?
I hold a lot of BTC and most of it is at least 5 years old. I've never had anything stolen from me and I've never had any type of security breach, that said, my friend had ransomware on 2 of his computers. I know people who had USB stick trojans that they got by using public printers and stuff. I had that malware that changes your address when you copy-paste on one of my "online" computers.
Everything can be found and cleaned once you are aware that you could be infected and take certain measures to avoid spreading it to your cold storage.

What if I wake up one day and it's all gone? I'll lose 80% of my liquid funds. I won't be forced to beg, or live in a tent, but I'll lose the ability to buy expensive stuff and invest for many years, maybe forever. That's why I make sure I run a tight ship here ant there's security layers over layers. The only way I could lose it all is if blockchain itself was compromised, but that's something I have no control over.

[Jason Brendon]

Fuck! You know what? Shit did happen.
Bitcoin developer lost his 200 some btc.
https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609613748364509184?s=20

[big kid]

I don't think I'll be able to do something, I'm holding everything in OWNR wallet. I can check transactions on the blockchair, but everything is anonymous, it's not possible to find out who could do that. The only way someone can steal my crypto is to steal my seed phrase.