Quote from: ghatts on June 08, 2017, 10:57:18 PM

I was wondering how blockchains lost tokens.

What I mean is, lets say someone loses a private key, or the JSON, or something else happens.

The coins inside that wallet, on every chain, they are officially lost, is there a way for chains to verify that?

They will never be used, or transferred. Would there be a way for an audit to verify that and effectively reduce the amount out there on the chain?

I understand the difference between total tokens and "active" tokens, but it is kind of pointless to factor those in anymore.

If you lost private key, or the JSON then it is going to lost forever.