Hello all, this is my first post....
so, the other day I had just transfered some bitcoins to my local wallet from bitfloor... and, as (bad) luck would have it, my harddrive went extremely south shortly after... i.s. no backup, and all my attempts to recover my lost wallet failed.
I asked around and was told there really is no way to recover a lost wallet if I had no backup.
These bitcoins are appearantly lost, forever... encrypted bit floating around homeless in the bitcoin ocean.
If I loose $100 dollars (actual paper money) someone, somewhere, someday is going to find it and spend it. The money stays in circulation. If I loose a bitcoin, it is gone forever. It seems to me that, eventually, little by little, as people loose their bitcoins for one reason or another, and there is not chance to recover them, then the number of bitoins actually in circulation forever dwindles. A healthy electrical stroem and/or solar flare and half the bitcoins in existance will disappear.
Or (i hope) there IS some way to recover these lost coins. If so I would love to find out how
