Lost & Found

Paper wallet for my nephew. House flooded. Paper dissolved. I can still see the ink running.

Transposed two characters. 3.5 BTC sent into the void. No reversal. No recovery. Just gone.

My wife kept investments private. After the accident, a Ledger in her desk. No PIN. No seed. 30 BTC.

Dad passed suddenly in 2017. Found mentions of Bitcoin in his emails but never the keys. Twelve BTC, gone with him.

My brother was into crypto before any of us understood it. Found a Trezor but no seed phrase. Eight Bitcoin, locked forever.

SSD failed catastrophically. Paid £2,000 for data recovery just to hear 'sorry, can't help.'

Mt. Gox. Need I say more? 22 BTC vanished overnight. Still waiting on that bankruptcy settlement.

Threw away an old laptop with 100 BTC in a wallet.dat file. Now I think about it every single day.

Ran a mining pool in 2011. Lost the backup USB in a house move. 250 BTC sitting in a box I'll never find.

Mined 50 BTC on my old gaming PC in college. Formatted the drive when I graduated. Didn't think twice until 2017.

Encrypted a wallet with a password I was SURE I'd remember. I did not. Five hundred Bitcoin.

Early Bitcointalk member. 6 GPUs. One encrypted wallet. The password? Gone. A thousand BTC collecting dust.