Let's add up the KNOWN lost bitcoins - page 20.

Maged

legendary

Activity: 1204

Merit: 1015

Quote from: caveden on May 05, 2011, 07:45:40 AM

A guy once lost 9.000 BTC by restoring a backup produced before a send transaction which had these 9.000 as input. That motivated Satoshi to implement the pool of addresses feature.
EDIT: Here's the topic: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lost-large-number-of-bitcoins-782

Looking back at that, he still had 1 btc. So...

9300.22
- 1.00
----------
9299.22

Alex Beckenham

full member

Activity: 154

Merit: 100

Quote from: Arsenal on May 08, 2011, 04:27:24 PM

I've lost 250 BTC.

May I ask how you lost it?

I don't mean to doubt you, but just want to make sure they're definitely lost.

AtlasONo

hero member

Activity: 551

Merit: 500

9300.17
+.05
--------
9300.22

SgtSpike

legendary

Activity: 1400

Merit: 1005

9050.17
+ 250.00
--------
9300.17

Arsenal

newbie

Activity: 7

Merit: 0

I've lost 250 BTC.

programmerbruce

newbie

Activity: 1

Merit: 0

I formatted a drive and lost .05 that I received from the Bitcoin Faucet.

9050.12
+ 0.05
--------
9050.17

AbeSkray

member

Activity: 72

Merit: 10

Quote from: theymos on May 05, 2011, 02:27:33 PM

0.04 BTC was sent to these special addresses that are likely to never have owners:
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2
http://blockexplorer.com/address/11111111111111111111BZbvjr

I lost a few hundred to a casino that shut down without refunding the BTC.

9050.08
+ 0.04
----------
9050.12

theymos

administrator

Activity: 5222

Merit: 13032

0.04 BTC was sent to these special addresses that are likely to never have owners:
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2
http://blockexplorer.com/address/11111111111111111111BZbvjr

I lost a few hundred to a casino that shut down without refunding the BTC.

AbeSkray

member

Activity: 72

Merit: 10

Quote from: Timo Y on May 05, 2011, 10:01:51 AM

I have so many wallets lying around in so many different places, different computers, virtual machines, usb sticks, gmail attachments, mobile phones, that I have no idea how many bitcoins I actually "own" anymore. I might have forgotten about some of those wallets, who knows? One of these days when I have the time I should try to tidy it all up.

The only amount that I know for certain I've lost so far is 0.05 BTC back in Oct 2010.

So:

9050.03
+ 0.05
--------
9050.08

Timo Y

legendary

Activity: 938

Merit: 1001

bitcoin - the aerogel of money

I have so many wallets lying around in so many different places, different computers, virtual machines, usb sticks, gmail attachments, mobile phones, that I have no idea how many bitcoins I actually "own" anymore. I might have forgotten about some of those wallets, who knows? One of these days when I have the time I should try to tidy it all up.

The only amount that I know for certain I've lost so far is 0.05 BTC back in Oct 2010.

caveden

legendary

Activity: 1106

Merit: 1004

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on May 05, 2011, 09:28:13 AM

Block 70136 has 0.03BTC in un-spendable transactions.

How did this happen? Shouldn't the block be invalid?

Gavin Andresen

legendary

Activity: 1652

Merit: 2301

Chief Scientist

Block 70136 has 0.03BTC in un-spendable transactions.

9050+
0.03
---------
9050.03

caveden

legendary

Activity: 1106

Merit: 1004

Quote from: td on May 05, 2011, 09:03:09 AM

9000 +
50
____
9050 BTC

There, fixed it. Wink

td

newbie

Activity: 30

Merit: 0

I personally lost one block of 50 BTC when coins were worth around 10 cents. It was a generated block and I was messing around with switching wallets and I never backed that wallet up before it was deleted. A little mad at the time even more so now.

9 +
50
____
59 BTC

caveden

legendary

Activity: 1106

Merit: 1004

A guy once lost 9.000 BTC by restoring a backup produced before a send transaction which had these 9.000 as input. That motivated Satoshi to implement the pool of addresses feature.
EDIT: Here's the topic: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lost-large-number-of-bitcoins-782

Alex Beckenham

full member

Activity: 154

Merit: 100

Quote from: koin on May 05, 2011, 04:28:55 AM

i'm sure there's a point to this.

i don't know if this counts, i can't log into mybitcoin are those coins considered lost as far as this thread cares?

I don't think those coins should count... administrators of that site (present and future) would still be able to spend those coins. (i.e. They're still part of the total money supply).

error

hero member

Activity: 588

Merit: 500

Someone lost a Satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) the other day. Though I am told a miner got it in his transaction fees, so perhaps it isn't truly lost.

koin

legendary

Activity: 873

Merit: 1000

i'm sure there's a point to this.

i don't know if this counts, i can't log into mybitcoin are those coins considered lost as far as this thread cares?

gigabytecoin

sr. member

Activity: 280

Merit: 252

May have lost 0.05 BTC sent by the faucet...

Had it sent to a windows box, windows almost immediately received a virus, I simply removed the HD and re-installed ubuntu to a new drive.

Time (and value of BTC) will tell if I ever boot up the old HD, remove the virus, and send my BTC back to the faucet/myself/anywhere.

TL;DR I probably lost 0.05 BTC.

Edit: I finally recovered them and have sent them back to the faucet! Enjoy, future bitcoiners!

kiba

legendary

Activity: 980

Merit: 1020

0.00000000

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