Has anyone here ever lost bitcoins?

Like forgetting a password or a backup

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Lost all of mine in a boating accident unfortunately

I had a node unexpectedly shut down with sats. Over 2 years I knew they were there just needed to work on it.

In short... I recovered my sats.

flushed in toilet

No. But I donated some to a podcaster who then proceeded to lose them.

My first time 🥲 . Got some as a gift and years later lost the words. Definitely learned from my mistake tho, never repeating that mistake again. Grateful to make such a mistake as it has helped me earn my own stats, and be able to stack them myself all while learning and growing with the knowledge of Bitcoin.

Some lessons come at high price..

At least, I'm not the only one!

Definitely 💯 🫂

boat accident

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Yeah Gmail account deactivated :/

🤔

Wtf 😭

In my experience bitcoiners tend to be accident-prone boaters...

I cyphered my words a few years ago. I remember being 1000% confident that I would never forget the cypher. Recently came back to it. I’ve now COMPLETELY forgotten how to decode the cypher - it is nothing but hot gibberish. I may or may not have had other less convoluted backups in this particular case but it has still be a fairly shocking and important lesson to learn.

I did something similar with the password..

I can't access to my main wallet anymore 😭

Some lessons come at high cost, but fortunately, it was not a big amount..

Bur still, knowing it will probably worth more and more makes me sick

Saw this a couple days ago. It’s very true…

Yes, by playing around with JoinMarket and not writing down the seed phrase

I lost 1.6M sats to a very early bug in LND related to block reorgs. Sucks, but the bug was fixed due to my sacrifice so there is that.

Lost all my btc to a hacker during a boating accident.