I have heard a thousand times that many bitcoins are lost due to the owners either forget their private keys, lost the hard drive, or simply die before they tell their family about the wealth. Although 21 million sounds like a lot, but with accidents like those keep happening, it's sooner or later bitcoin will gradually...be depleted. I know now the reward for miners are new issued bitcoins plus transaction fees, could it be possible that some day the reward includes a new feature, that all wallets will give a small portion of its balance to the miners, either a small percentage of the balance, or just a few Satoshis per wallet. So that "dead" bitcoins will slowly become global wealth for all humans again over a great span of time? What do you think? Is it a very stupid idea?
I'm guessing what you're suggesting is that wallets that aren't being used for a certain amount of months/years get categorized as 'lost'. And then their btc gets sent off? /No-Support. Maybe the person is a long-term holder/ Maybe the person does have access to their wallet but completely forgot about it. Also for this to even be considered it would require a hard-fork and we all know how those end up. Hi Roger