Hello friends. Has anyone ever lost bitcoin? I am curious to listen to your stories. My purspose is to educate ourselves of possible scams, or rookie mistakes that we may do, that can lead to our BTC being stolen or lost.
Edit: Back in Feb 2020, I gave my seed phrase to someone on twitter. The convinced me the seed phrase was equal to my address and that they needed it to send me bitcoin. Don't ask me why I was so stupid... I lost approx. 1M sats and I had to start accumulating again. I bought a Trezor and I started reading...
Every person has moments when they are truly pensive. During this distraction, we can't even carefully do the things we need to do. In such a situation, I came back from a few mistakes about bitcoin transfer. Sometimes I forget to look at the address when I want to send money to my account. Sometimes after making the network selection, I question whether I have chosen the right one. These are not scams, just carelessness, but I still experience them sometimes.
That is a really unlucky one you've sent to another address. That is why I always double and triple check my address to make sure that is where my bitcoin is going. We know that it is our fault if it was sent to the wrong address. The moral lesson really is to make sure we learn from our mistakes because it is still useless to commit those mistakes over and over and not learn from them. Though the biggest mistake that happened to me was investing in ponzi schemes before, I did learn a lesson from it.