These don’t fall under the category of the thread’s heading (namely about losing BTC), but you can see these types of investments as a loss of opportunity for having gained Bitcoin. I more or less consider myself sound, and rather prudent where I place my savings. Nevertheless, I did succumb to the ICO hype, and placed some bets on all the wrong places (as if there were many ICOs that weren’t at the time). What didn’t turn out to be a worthless token, turned out to be a quick exit scam.

Regardless of all that you read on each ICO, the aftermaths goes to show that things moved too fast, reviews were shallow in investigation and overly hyped (and likely paid for), and one is certainly not as lectured as one would have thought in scrutinizing the prospects …