Quote from: Coef on September 15, 2014, 06:25:18 PM

Quote from: theymos on September 13, 2014, 02:00:14 AM

Also, 250 BTC was probably lost when treasurer paraipan died, unfortunately. Recovering that BTC is maybe still possible, but it's probably unlikely.

The forum currently has about 5568 BTC in reserve.

I think the bitcoin should be stored in some multi-sig wallets, to prevent this kind of loss from happening in the future.
If not, may be every treasurer and theymos will need to prepare a dead man switch so that someone else (say your family) will have access to the bitcoin and will have the responsibility to send it back to bitcointalk.

Yea I suggested this before. With bitcoin, if someone dies, there money is gone. the government cant take it or give to the family, its completely lost and only if someone brute forces the private key it can be recovered. Multisig addresses are the way to go with stuff like this.