Well you’re not really part of the incrowd if you haven’t lost crypto in a very, very, very stupid way (I got scammed out of 5 BTC by clicking a link in a trollbox, leading me to a url that was very similar to a coinwatch website. There I clicked to ignore the java warnings…)
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It’s only recently I think of it as accidentally formatting the stick.
It was late at night and I borked my pc and needed to make a usb install disk. And I valued doing it there and then as more important than the BTC on the stick.
How I wish I’d viewed BTC as more than dusty road tokens and actually kept one or two 
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If you haven’t used the stick then it should be able to unformat it since they only trash the root directory.
Some stick makers even have recovery software you can use
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It was in a usb bootable tails Linux distros encrypted partition.
Which was formated into a windows install usb. Then formatted back to a usb stick and used for several years before bit coin became so valuable.
Even if I could recover it which I have tried I’d still need to remember two super long complex passwords that were designed to be un brute forceable. One for the tails encrypted partition and one for the wallet.
If I’d tried to make sure the keys were destroyed I don’t think I could have done a better job of it
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Very true I think this could be worthy of its own thread.
@mods can we move the losing crypto posts to a dedicated thread ?
I bet we all have some silly stories about losing crypto that’s now worth a fortune
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“The internet is yours, come run it”
I absolutely LOVE that line! 
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Same… except for the missing ‘and’ between ‘come’ and ‘run’ 
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Ah, a grammar pedant after my own heart.
Respect.
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This internet is your, come’n run it
What’s this word “and” you talk about? - Yorkshire lad.
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