Have You Ever Lost Any Of Your Cryptocurrency?

in #dpoll6 years ago

Have You Ever Lost Any Of Your Cryptocurrency?


The world of cryptocurrencies offer a unique challenge for a lot of people who want to improve their finances but don't exactly enjoy diving deep into this domain.

It's usually complicated for the noob. There's a lot of cognitive load on most users to perform simple tasks such as managing their wallets, private keys, sending and receiving cryptocurrencies, long-term wealth succession planning etc and it does create a lot of confusion.

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Especially when our goal is to maximise profits and minimise risks. However, we are probably doing it right 99/100 times but an error or two occurs every now and then. Also, many we may lose access to our keys due a hard drive failure, theft of our devices amongst other real world issues.

But today let's do a quick multi-choice poll and see what Steemians have to say about their loss of funds.


  • ICO Investments

  • Forgot or misplaced your private keys

  • Exchange or wallet hack

  • Investment in Shitcoins

  • Investment In Ponzi or MLM type scam

  • Allowing someone to manage your investment

  • Lost keys due to HD failure or Theft

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Lost too many due to exchanges

Actually all my investment has been done by my son,so I have no idea about the loss.

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  • ICO Investments
  • Lost keys due to HD failure or Theft

Lost keys and wallet access due to my laptop being stolen and a backup hd crashing in addition to copytrack ICO going bad.

Frankly... In 2017 I played around a little with all kinds of stuff in the crypto-realm. Thankfully never on the level of affiliation-marketing. I was lucky tho. Besides the fact that most of these more shady investments underperformed compared to Bitcoin price movements in 2017 I havn't lost any $ value. What was a goner was just the "free money" I accumulated in these things once I had my initial investment out again. I learned that most of the time these things only work good if you are willing to shill and make money from affiliation links and so on. I didn't want to pull others into my gambling with these things and I'm happy that I didn't do that. For me it's all about constant growth without harming anyone. So I do the - to some boring - but still IMHO very effective DCAthing. Like clockwork I DCA into Bitcoin every week and I will power up in STEEM every now and then. All the other things you mentioned thankfully didn't happen to me... so far.

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  • Forgot or misplaced your private keys

Forgot to save private key

How to live?

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  • Investment in Shitcoins

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  • ICO Investments
  • Forgot or misplaced your private keys
  • Investment in Shitcoins
  • Lost keys due to HD failure or Theft

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  • Allowing someone to manage your investment

Voted for

  • Forgot or misplaced your private keys

Voted for

  • Allowing someone to manage your investment