How many Bitcoins are lost forever? - page 21.

tyz

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Right, I see that this is not predictable but we could collect all losses in order to get a better view of how many Bitcoins are / or could be lost.

Your record is a really little amount compared to other losses.

Quote from: coinyoo on November 14, 2015, 10:12:37 AM

Another record of someone who lost some of its Bitcoins. But overall, the answer is really hard to answer. We can only collect the records of losses.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lost-btc-1249342

coinyoo

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Another record of someone who lost some of its Bitcoins. But overall, the answer is really hard to answer. We can only collect the records of losses.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lost-btc-1249342

NewLiberty

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add about a bitcoin for someone that asked me to send it to their torwallet.
They lost the key unrecoverably before transferring it out. There it sits forever.

Rude Boy

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Quote from: safari88 on September 23, 2015, 02:25:16 AM

I probably lost about 0.2 - 0.3 in a Ponzi game and gambling Sad

Don't bother the gambling looses. Because, its gain for someone else and its still under circulation

Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 12:59:30 PM

I know it is a tricky question. What do you think, how many Bitcoins are lost forever and are 'out of the network' by lost private keys?

OP consider the bitcoins which cannot be recovered.

safari88

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I probably lost about 0.2 - 0.3 in a Ponzi game and gambling Sad

MasterYii

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 12:59:30 PM

I know it is a tricky question. What do you think, how many Bitcoins are lost forever and are 'out of the network' by lost private keys?

I'm not really sure but I think many coin owners have lost some of their biticoins and to sum all of there lost coins there are a lot of lost coins now, I don't really know where it go maybe got internet theft or maybe it is impossible if I say misplace anyway gone just gone.

coinzat

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Young but I'm not that bold

fortunately I did not lose any bit coin until now Grin

I think most of lost bitcoins would be for people who mined in the first days and then they lost their privkey so those would be a huge amounts of btc

Miss Fortune

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 12:59:30 PM

I know it is a tricky question. What do you think, how many Bitcoins are lost forever and are 'out of the network' by lost private keys?

Probably a lot, surely there are a lot of unreported lost about it new coin owners have lost coins due to they are new to this and doesn't have an idea on how this works.

elite3000

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Beginners still lose large amounts of Bitcoins through silly mistakes and security blunders it's tragic to see.

Denker

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Quote from: kvlolo on September 22, 2015, 08:11:36 AM

Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 03:03:18 PM

Someone summed up the lost BTC only from the thread. In total BTC 134578.27864659
And this is likely just a particle of all lost coins.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8601641

Oh my god, any idea why there are so much?

Plenty of reasons I guess. Broken data storage and no other back ups had been made. Early mined and forgot about it over the years. Many people have lost their private keys.

kvlolo

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 03:03:18 PM

Someone summed up the lost BTC only from the thread. In total BTC 134578.27864659
And this is likely just a particle of all lost coins.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8601641

Oh my god, any idea why there are so much?

gentlemand

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Quote from: momore on September 21, 2015, 08:07:04 PM

Will the forever lost bitcoins reactive or re-mined?

If they're 'remined' then Bitcoin will probably collapse as people realise that their coins can simply be taken from them.

There are lots of coins that haven't moved for a long time. That doesn't mean they're lost. I don't think their owners would be too pleased if they suddenly disappeared just because they hadn't moved them for a while.

momore

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 12:59:30 PM

I know it is a tricky question. What do you think, how many Bitcoins are lost forever and are 'out of the network' by lost private keys?

Will the forever lost bitcoins reactive or re-mined?

Rude Boy

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Lost about 0.0061 from my side by this address ► 17qfUN315w6DVyzQbbveSBw3hMWvYVMXAQ Because, i lost the wallet (its a multibit wallet) by my dead HDD, i didn't backup that wallet Shocked

and can't even recover from that HDD. Undecided

bitgolden

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The real number of forever lost bitcoins must be a greater number, unfortunately there is no method currently available to us to measure this interesting segment bitcoins. But roughly we can assume some percentage of bitcoin as burned for particular period based on same period's minded coin. This may be applied to market cap calculations to get real worth of bitcoins.

Denker

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Quote from: MisterMoney on September 21, 2015, 08:59:20 AM

Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 03:03:18 PM

Someone summed up the lost BTC only from the thread. In total BTC 134578.27864659
And this is likely just a particle of all lost coins.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8601641

That is really really much. I don't understand why it will lost FORever.

Keep in mind these are just the coins some members claimed here to be lost. The real number might be way higher. If Satoshi should never move his coins we are talking about an amount of more than 1 million coins.

DarkHyudrA

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Quote from: MisterMoney on September 21, 2015, 08:59:20 AM

Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 03:03:18 PM

Someone summed up the lost BTC only from the thread. In total BTC 134578.27864659
And this is likely just a particle of all lost coins.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8601641

That is really really much. I don't understand why it will lost FORever.

It's lost forever because you can't get back the private key of the public key that have any sum of BTC.
It's the same reason you can't get stealed by simply sharing your public key.

MisterMoney

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 03:03:18 PM

Someone summed up the lost BTC only from the thread. In total BTC 134578.27864659
And this is likely just a particle of all lost coins.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8601641

That is really really much. I don't understand why it will lost FORever.

JeWay

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It depends on how people use it, if they just make a wallet and after a couple months they abandon it. Well, we all will lost that Bitcoin. Unless, if someone can be able to crack the private key.

Blawpaw

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Quote from: tyz on June 23, 2015, 12:59:30 PM

I know it is a tricky question. What do you think, how many Bitcoins are lost forever and are 'out of the network' by lost private keys?

That's a good question! I guess that is very difficult to know at this point. I think that we will only be able to find how many BTC are lost after they are all mined. Or we can probably research the blockchain and find a pattern that could lead us to see how many BTC could be outside of the network.

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