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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Let's add up the KNOWN lost bitcoins
by
presduterte
on 03/10/2018, 17:10:02 UTC
Our last annual tally of ~400 known "burn addresses", that is bitcoin addresses with almost assuredly no known private key, totaled 2,759.42507135 BTC as of Dec 2017.

2017
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/12/30/8-97-bitcoins-burned-in-2017/
2016
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/12/21/btc-burn-addresses/

I stumbled upon this thread by accident and then just read your 2017 edition -- real good stuff. I especially like the guy who spelled out the lyrics to the rickroll song.

Its funny to read people in 2011/2012 kicking themselves for losing their bitcoin. I would imagine by today they either learned to let it go and live with it or have kicked holes in their heads.