Bitcoins lost

[smoothrunnings]

After seeing the story about the guy who lost 7 million dollars with of Bitcoins the price was high, and Stacey (at RT News/Max Keiser) recently saying he's lost wallets in the beginning that held 20 bitcoins or so in them, I am wondering how many lost bitcoins there are out there?

[proudhon]

After seeing the story about the guy who lost 7 million dollars with of Bitcoins the price was high, and Stacey (at RT News/Max Keiser) recently saying he's lost wallets in the beginning that held 20 bitcoins or so in them, I am wondering how many lost bitcoins there are out there?

Practically impossible to know for sure.  Lots.

[jongameson]

I have a USB stick with 50 somewhere around here I mined back in Feburary 09

[EvilPanda]

I have a USB stick with 50 somewhere around here I mined back in Feburary 09

Need help finding it? 

[bitpop]

What's your home address

[runam0k]

Didn't someone post a thread about there being almost 40,000 wallets with 50BTC newly minted each in them that haven't been touched that have almost certainly been forgotten about or lost?

That's a lot of coins right there.

[LiteCoinGuy]

maybe in the end we have instead of 21 mio BTC only 14 mio.