The coin in the bitcoin wallet is gone
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
Malwarethe 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
if your wallet file is lost, you can try to use the file recovery tool to recover it
consider putting it in your online wallet, and then save your wallet address.