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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: 2 Million unspent pristine bitcoins
by
Nite69
on 02/10/2012, 19:47:40 UTC
I just ran a quick analysis on the blockchain.

Out of the 192386 blocks currently mined, very many of them
have a BTC 50 block reward that has never been spent.

To be exact, 41493 blocks have an unspent reward.

That is worth approximately BTC 2'074'650.00 (not counting fees).

That's 2 Million+ pristine coins hoarded, or about 20% of the BTC market cap.



Can you make an analysis to check if these coins really are lost:

"Bitomat.pl Loss
Time: 2011-07-26"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0

Or maybe someone has been able to actually spend them after 'losing' them?