On Coping (Or Not) With Bitcoins Lost There are five stages of crypto-grief, and it can take a long time to cycle through them. Author: Jan 15, 2021 There are five stages of crypto-grief, and it can take a long time to cycle through them. Among the more amusing dichotomies of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that of their simultaneous security and insecurity, and of the endless cycling between the two that entails. As intangibles that live on the internet, and increasingly valuable and untraceable ones, at that, they are rather prone to hacks and cyber thieves and the like. As such, much investment and technology has gone in to protecting them, which is great but which apparently also leaves HODLers in fear of dismemberment, and which also carries the risk that the only key to an instavault will go with one (or another) to the grave.