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Topic: How many lost bitcoins are there? (Read 441 times)

legendary
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nahtnam.com
December 04, 2013, 11:45:31 PM
#5
I would say about 3 million will never be used or heard of again...

EDIT: Maybe 5...
hero member
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Buy and sell bitcoins,
December 04, 2013, 11:39:00 PM
#4
satoshi is a big question mark -- lots of coins there

i imagine there is millions -- how many, hard to know -- aside from that. i lost a couple dozen coins from 2010 personally.
full member
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December 04, 2013, 11:23:04 PM
#3
There isn't even 20 million coins out there to be lost.
There might be 20 million lost wallets. Definitely not 20 million lost Bitcoins.
sr. member
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December 04, 2013, 08:23:14 PM
#2
about 20 million
full member
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December 04, 2013, 08:19:38 PM
#1
How many bitcoins do you think are out there that will never be used. Because they have been lost or forgotten.

I'm guessing at least a hundred thousand, but it could be over a million. Is there a way to use the blockchain to see bitcoins that haven't moved in x number of years. It would be an interesting statistic.
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