Story: I was checking bitcointalk's board about lending and I decided to enter because I want to check how it works. I saw many honest people lending their bitcoin at 5-15% depending of how much you want. At those days, I was participating actively in P2P loans platforms such as BitJam, Wayniloans, etc because my main focus was to look it up all these pages to see if their legit.

A saw one post (today deleted) where some dude from Bombay asked a small loan to repair his bike. He explained shortly the costs, details and he was willing to repay 8% at 2 months. Since I didn't care too much about the money but the experience of borrow someone my bitcoins, I gave him/her 0.5 bitcoin¹ and expected to be returned in 46 days.

And yes, of course my friend, he/she vanished with that. And no, I made no effort to try to find the guy because at those days, it's just waste of time.

Well, of course not. I landed to BTCJam where I started to put my money in several investments, the experience was good until I lost (again) 0.5 BTC² and those days bitcoin was more expensive, so I took those loses personally. I have my arbitration letter but never took any actions.

So, that's my story.