$350 billion!!! This is the amount lost in the cryptocurrency space since the birth of Bitcoin. Not a "market capitalization drop." It was stolen. It's completely gone. It's gone forever. Let me break it down in detail, because this is absolutely insane! $22.7 billion directly hacked Someone wrote smart contract code, another person discovered the vulnerability, stole the funds, and then disappeared. In 2025 alone, $17 billion was stolen, making it the worst year ever. North Korea stole $6.75 billion This is no joke; Kim Jong-un's nuclear program is funded with the losses from your garbage cryptocurrencies. They hacked Bybit in February, losing $1.5 billion. FTX absconded with billions of dollars Sam gambled with customers' deposits in Alameda, telling everyone the funds were safe. Then everything collapsed. Terra/LUNA? $40 Billion Vanished in 72 Hours Do Kwon's algorithmic stablecoin plummeted from $1 to $0.000001, dragging down the entire ecosystem. OneCoin Scammed $5 Billion No blockchain, only an SQL database and PowerPoint presentations. Ruja Ignatova, who disappeared in 2017 and remains one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was found this year in South Africa. She is still at large. But even more tragically: 3.7 Million Bitcoins Vanished Forever Those who mined Bitcoin in 2010 when it was worth $0.08 Threw away their hard drives Forgot their passwords Died without leaving a mnemonic phrase. At today's prices? This means over $250 billion worth of Bitcoin lies quietly in wallets no one can access. A guy in the UK has been trying to dig up his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins from a landfill since 2013. The city government wouldn't let him. $560 million lies buried in a junkyard. Another person lost the password to 7,002 bitcoins. Only two more password attempts left, after which they're permanently locked. Just like that… lying there, unable to move. And: Every time you "temporarily" put your coins on an exchange, you're trusting they won't become the next FTX. Every time you connect your wallet to an unknown dApp, you could be wiped out with a single approval. Every time you click a Discord link or a Twitter DM, you're likely handing everything over. So, are you even going to protect your stuff?