It is not clear how this could happen,probably some kind of system error.Well if the administrator can help, you may need the help of technical specialists.

Maybe he know bitcoin on past but he remember that he lost it for too long.  The value of that coin was too cheap of course and maybe you think that it was too high now but it is like a cents on the past.

We also hope that we could back to the past and do captcha then save our private keys or some recoverable account.

I don't lost anything because I can recover my account.

I agree, they're still there. But if instawallet works as advertised, they might as well not be. you may need the help of technical specialists.

I couldn't follow the add up of the lost BTC on this thread but I lost a negligible amount of BTC of recent as well due to my stolen device. It amounts to  0.0003BTC 

I do not think the coins should count ... the site's administrator can spend those coins.

If it is sent to a windows box, the window almost immediately gets a virus, I simply remove the HD and reinstall ubuntu to a new drive. TL, DR I can lose 0.05 BTC. Enjoy, bitcoiners in the future! I may have forgotten some of those wallets, who knows?

I stumbled upon this thread by accident and then just read your 2017 edition -- real good stuff. I especially like the guy who spelled out the lyrics to the rickroll song.

Its funny to read people in 2011/2012 kicking themselves for losing their bitcoin. I would imagine by today they either learned to let it go and live with it or have kicked holes in their heads.

If those lists are accurate and the tally is as you say BTC 2759.42507135 then they will be worth at the current rate of exchange to the US Dollar.  (Which is no small change in the big picture)

welcome to the idiot club then because I only bought 1400 for 105 dollars and I left them on your bitcoin market site! unless you want to give them back to me! that would be really very nice! after 15 years! but I've been trying to contact you for 3 years! Have the aliens released you?

What’s the worst thing that could happen anyway,Well, we hate to say this, but there may be a chance that you won’t be able to see your old Bitcoin and the funds inside it—ever again. According to Cane Island Digital Research, about 4% of available Bitcoins are lost each year.