there shall be 21 000 000 bitcoins it total but will be less due to lost passwords etc. and last bitcoin will be mined around 2140
around 1% is lost 4ever :ooooo
How do you know this? Where did you get this number? Do you have a reference?
Well, technically the bitcoins are not gone, its just that noone can spend them.
Anyway there was a post about it[1] by DeathAndTaxes not so long ago. Those estimates are nowhere near 1%
Interstingly, wasn't there a flaw discovered earlier this year that would cause the number of Bitcoins being created with each block to re-start at 50 BTC after all 21 million coins were put into circulation or something?
Yep, fixed though.
there shall be 21 000 000 bitcoins it total but will be less due to lost passwords etc. and last bitcoin will be mined around 2140
around 1% is lost 4ever :ooooo
Lost coins can be seen as profit for all other bitcoiners because the bitcoins in circulation will be more scarce.
True, but where did the 1% number come from? Out of PublicKey's ass?
IMHO (see above why), yes! People tend to pull percentages out of their behinds all the time.
[1]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=675321.0