Someone asked: What happened to those who lost everything in the crypto market? The post got 200k views and hundreds of replies in the comments, almost every single one filled with real pain. After reading these stories, the reasons for losses can roughly be categorized into a few types: Over-leveraging is the most frequently mentioned term. Someone turned $20k into 7 figures, but in the end, they went all-in with leverage, didn’t set a stop-loss, and one candlestick wiped them out. "Every time I went broke, it was because my position was too heavy, and I took screenshots instead of cashing out." Can’t hold, can’t sell. Someone hit 7 figures three times. The second time, they believed the ETH bull market wouldn’t end and didn’t exit; the third time, they optimized their strategy and finally kept the money. Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two different things. Emotional decisions. Someone had a marriage crisis, broke down emotionally, and used their trading account as an outlet, eventually losing everything. The market doesn’t care what you’re going through. Platform collapses. Someone put half their assets into Celsius and "barely broke even." Another made a lot of money early in the Solana ecosystem, then followed SBF into various projects, only to have everything evaporate after the FTX collapse. Believing others. Someone simply replied with four words: "listened to gainzy." Buying high, selling low. One person summed it up even more simply with just six words: "Buy high sell low." These stories span across 2017, the 2020 COVID crash, the 2022 Luna collapse and FTX implosion, and the 2024 high-leverage liquidation wave. The market changes, but the script for losses has barely changed: opportunities came, but people couldn’t walk away unscathed. What’s the worst loss you’ve experienced in the crypto market?