Yo,
So apparently there's like 4-6 million bitcoin that are lost and gone? Just curious if there was any ideas or plans to update the protocol to replace the lost bitcoins if there was a consensus, if that is even possible.
Any Bitcoin that is lost, is lost forever and counted it as a gift the the rest of the Bitcoin holders, unlike the other way around where there is a possibility to recover with the help of a centralized protocol but in this case, any Bitcoin that is transferred to an inaccessible wallet will become a burn Bitcoin since there be no way for its usability.
Just like Satoshi mentioned in the quote above, so let's stop looking for the possibility of having them again, all of us have lost some fraction of Bitcoin and to that extent, we consider them as donations.