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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [Question] Amount of Bitcoin Lost/Not Accessible
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Bitcoin.PN
on 14/04/2022, 15:10:09 UTC
Hey,

On a search on google, I found these two blogs for amount of bitcoin that are lost forever and are not accessible anymore.

1. https://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/ - 2017
2. https://www.investopedia.com/news/20-all-btc-lost-unrecoverable-study-shows/ - 2019

Is there any latest data to with some sort of proof with the No. of Bitcoin which are lost forever?
Would love to know as according to the 2nd URL, almost 20% of the overall supply is not accessible which raises the scarcity of bitcoin even more.

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While the loss of 20% of all bitcoin is likely to not have a significant impact on the crypto market itself, it could surely affect individual investors.
Aren't they underestimating the 20% of all bitcoin supply in total? geez.

By "being lost forever", it just means that to get their private keys in order to spend those coins will take YEARS, DECADES or maybe even A LOT more due to quantum computers