This article and news has been circulating for days. Kinda feels like this is spreading negativity around the crypto space. But the comments are damn hilarious. There were people saying they knew this will happen. There were others saying its a ponzie scheme controlled by the "kingpins". They make you lose "passwords" so that you can't access the coins anymore after you paid them to buy bitcoin. One guy even asked why can't they "call bitcoin helpline" for resetting their account. Lmao! Shows how much people are unaware about bitcoin and the technology behind it.
Is this amount reported to anywhere or people are speculation only? I guess there are a lot of early bitcoiners have lost their BTC in such a proceed; either forget the encrypted password or have spoiled their drive, hardware etc. There was another article where I have read it was 1 million.
Speculation. Impossible to accurately find how many lost coins are there. Imagine how many wallets carry dust amount of coins.