1. According to Chaina alysis, a research firm, up to 20% of the existing bitcoin has disappeared forever. At the time of the study, about 3.8 million bitcoins could never be retrieved. In this article, we will explore all possible ways to lose bitcoin
1. Cryptocurrency hackers
the hacker behavior of cryptocurrency exchange is the main reason for the loss of bitcoin. Exchanges are a hot target for cyber criminals, accounting for 27% of cyber attacks in 2018. Mt. GOx was the first high-profile cryptocurrency hacker, but since then, many major exchanges have been hacked, including bitfinex, bitstamp and, more recently, cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange in New Zealand, which lost 9.4% of its total positions
Malware
the malware on torrent website and Google play store are used to steal passwords from vulnerable categories. For example, there is a malware clipper that uses users' behavior of ing and pasting wallet addresses to steal passwords. For example, if you send BTC to an address, you usually and paste the address, because it is a long string of random characters, clipper malware will exchange wallet addresses, which means that when you paste, you will send encryption to the wrong address
2. If you forget your password, you can retrieve it with the help of tools. Specific network under their own understanding
if your wallet file is lost, you can try to use the file recovery tool to recover it
3. I can do it
4. The bank can come to understand
5. It can be split, and one becomes 1000W
6. When the price is right, shipping bitcoin is the right way to win investment, but maybe (note that inference is not sure) the value of bitcoin will be higher in the future. If the shipment is not completed, you need to wait for the opportunity to continue to sell; If you are willing to collect a little bit, you can store it in a secure bitcoin wallet. The secure bitcoin wallet here does not mean that it is still in the exchange (because the exchange will run away), nor does it mean that it is in the hot wallet app (the hot wallet app on the mobile phone is not safe). The safest wallet should be the offline paper wallet of bitcoin, We can search the secure offline paper wallet of bitcoin on the Internet and learn how to make the most secure offline paper wallet of bitcoin
the price of bitcoin fluctuates greatly and the risk is not small. The answers are for reference only.
7. This is very difficult to find. Failure to confirm is proof of the failure of this transaction and failure to obtain confirmation from the network. Bitcoin receives payments almost instantaneously. However, there is an average delay of 10 minutes before the network starts adding your transaction to a block to confirm the transaction and that you can use the received bitcoin. Confirmation means that there is a consensus on the Internet that the bitcoin you receive is not used to pay others, so it is recognized as your property. Once your transaction is included in one block, all subsequent blocks will include it, which will greatly consolidate this consensus and rece the risk of transaction cancellation. Each user can determine the time when the transaction is confirmed, but generally speaking, receiving six confirmations is as safe as waiting six months after a credit card transaction
however, foreign studies have also shown that these bitcoins can be tracked and retrieved, but they are troublesome. At present, they are still in theory, and no company provides such services. Bitcoin house has this convenient report. You can check it on it.
8. No, it has nothing to do with computers
