Have you lost Bitcoins?

in #bitcoin8 years ago (edited)

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"Lost coins only make everyone else's worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation"

I have never lost any coins I've owned but reading some of the stories of private keys being lost, old hard drives been thrown out with hundreads of bitcoin on them I can only imagine a few people on here may have lost some.

Have you lost Bitcoins?
How much and how did it happen?

What happens to lost Bitcoin?
Well.......
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If you have lost Bitcoin I bet now no matter how worthless some of the coins your holding, it will never happen to you again!

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My housemate have..i can only imagine how she feels. She's starting to buy again :)

A lesson learnt id say!

I hope not ever :)

Could you imagine if you did!!

Not yet happened to me, but I read there is more than 1 billion USD lost/burned because of lost bitcoins, which is a lot of money...

So far we have several millions of Bitcoins lost - around a billion dollars

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I really encourage everyone to think hard and long about how to store your bitcoins securely :)

Yes, I would treat them like gold more then gold their worth more!

I have, but it was a tiny insignificant amount that I got from a faucet in some ancient history when I was playing around with bitcoin :)

A faucet a log time a go could have given quite a bit in today's terms

Possibly, there were quite a number of leading zeroes after the decimal though. Think it was barely a few cents worth if that. Perhaps it's a couple of dollars now :)

Not the worst to lose anyway!

It makes me wonder in comparison, how much paper USD is lost ?