TL;DR:
Streamer Coscu accidentally nuked his own Bitcoin wallet by wiping his PC—no backups, no recovery, just $660,000 lost to a clean install.
It All Started When
Martín Disalvo—better known to millions of fans as Coscu—is an Argentinian streaming icon. A digital native. A Twitch legend. A man whose fingers move faster than most people’s thoughts. From competitive gaming to viral content, he built an empire on quick thinking and tech fluency.
But even digital gods can have mortal moments.
At the height of crypto mania, Coscu decided to dive in. He bought Bitcoin like it was a rare loot drop—stacking sats with the confidence of a man who’d never forgotten a password in his life. To store this digital gold, he used a software wallet on his PC.
His password? Stored locally.
Backups? None.
Redundancy plan? Lol.
And because he wasn’t a fan of writing things down or using cold storage, the only thing standing between Coscu and crypto catastrophe was… his C:\ drive.
And Then
Disaster struck in the form of computer issues. Blue screens, lag, gremlins—whatever the cause, Coscu hit the nuclear option: a full system format.
Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Clean install.
Factory reset.
Wipe it all.
And with that, the only record of his wallet credentials—the keys to an estimated $660,000 in Bitcoin—vanished.
Poof. Gone.
Not hacked. Not stolen.
Just overwritten into oblivion by Windows installation wizardry.
Coscu later admitted the loss publicly, telling fans that while he might dominate the esports scene, he absolutely botched basic crypto hygiene. “It’s my fault,” he said. “I formatted everything. I lost the wallet. I was an idiot.”
Yes, Coscu. Yes, you were.
The Facepalm
The crypto community reacted like a Greek chorus of regret. Sympathy. Shock. And memes. Oh, the memes.
One Twitter user wrote:
“Bro really hit ‘erase my net worth’ and clicked OK.”
Another posted a fake Windows popup:
“Are you sure you want to delete $660,000?”
✅ Yes
Reddit, as expected, was merciless:
“Imagine streaming your Ls in 4K.”
And somewhere in a dark room, a cybersecurity expert quietly whispered:
“This is why we use hardware wallets.”
Even Coscu’s fans, loyal as they are, couldn’t help but turn his loss into lore. It was too relatable. Too raw. Too HODLawards-worthy. Because this wasn’t a heist. It wasn’t a scam. It was the digital equivalent of putting your life savings under your mattress, then burning the house down to fix the wiring.
Does This Deserve a HODLaward?
👍You decide.
A man who plays video games for a living forgot the first rule of crypto: always back it up. And when his PC went down, so did $660K in Bitcoin—never to be seen again.
He was last seen staring at a loading screen, whispering “Control Z… Control Z… Control Z…”
