Quote from: OceanWhispers on February 16, 2014, 04:06:57 PM

Not sure if this is still ongoing. I have lost 55 BTC that will never again be part of someones wealth.

Are you sure your "lost" 55 BTC are truely lost in the terms of the OP? I'm asking because your signature speaks of lost coins due to a compromised mining pool. Have your coins been stolen or has someone lost control of your coins because the associated private key(s) are gone forever and there is definitely no way to recover them?

It's important to remember that Bitcoins are never truely lost or destroyed or deleted in a technical sense. All you loose is the control to spend them should you ever loose the last copy of the private key of your various bitcoin addresses that hold some coins. Every minted Bitcoins lives happily in the blockchain. The question is: who has the private key necessary to spend them?

Quote from: Chris_Sabian on February 18, 2014, 02:28:09 PM

Also, all of the coins from and in the genesis block wallet cannot be spent due to a quirk in the code.

Couldn't this be corrected if necessary? I guess, Satoshi doesn't care much about those first coins...