How many bitcoins have been lost forever?

[bitcoinvamp]

don't know the exact amount but roughly it may be more than 2 million bitcoins which are lost forever.i hope no other bitcoin gets lost in coming years.

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[lighpulsar07]

How many bitcoins do you think have been lost forever?

I personally think its around 3 to 4 million.

well since this topic was posted in 2016 i think the bitcoins were lost is now higher than 4million in terms of bitcoins but we can't tell how many millions of bitcoins were lost and also this question boggles in my mind, does bitcoins were mined by satoshi is considered lost or not? considering that he was mining bitcoins before he was left the bitcoin world

[AdamCooper]

Less than 1 million.

[JCB44]

Less than 1 million.

Lol, even Satoshi`s stash is more worth than that.
Check this list - https://bitinfocharts.com/ru/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html
You can find a lot of wallets that havent been active since 2010-2011.
There is high chances that owner is dead or lost their access to wallet.

[laserguy]

I think we will never know the answer exactly. The address full of btc which is not used for a long time maybe in a vault of a richman and he doesn't care just for now or he forget it there. There are lots of possibilities valid for other btc addresses.

[tigaasayosa]

have no idea but i thinks is value like ton of money right now. they lost it maybe by accident like losing device etc. and now cause bitcoin price is high i guess ppl will take care their bitcoin more carefull.

[equator]

What do you mean as if you are talking about from start then lot of people have lost it because in start value was low so many people owned have thrown the wallet and now they are crying

[rjbtc2017]

How many bitcoins do you think have been lost forever?

I personally think its around 3 to 4 million.

If you will research the top richest bitcoin wallet addresses at google , you will find some of them are now inactive but we cannot be sure that this coins are considered lost since they are just inactive. I also think that you should rename your thread to how much coins that have been inactive for a couple years.
In my own opinion there is no lost coins. They are just inactivr that maybe someday it will be active again.

[JaredStein]

Ya I would have to agree that it's around the 2-3 million mark, maybe even more as a lot of mistakes have been made on the Bitcoin network when it comes to storing them and sending them.

[donotlean]

i dont know the number but its over million i think.Anyone know what happen to stolen bitcoins at 2013?.Hackers stole 850.000 btc from some exchanges.it is a huge number

[JCB44]

i dont know the number but its over million i think.Anyone know what happen to stolen bitcoins at 2013?.Hackers stole 850.000 btc from some exchanges.it is a huge number

Do you mean Mt.Gox story? Those coins still in circulation, hackers already laundered them though other exchanges including btc-e

[Ucy]

Lol, lots of funny figures here. Mine was $30 worth of Bitcoin...was my first ever Bitcoin. It wasn't exactly lost... like losing the coin to fraudsters or something. Just that things didn't work out as planned. I ignored and move on.

[Westinhome]

No idea, but i guess it's between 1-2 million since some early adopters were careless and Satoshi might lose Satoshi's wallet. But this link have idea how much bitcoin was lost : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337

That was a big money it all over a million you've lost, for me its only a thousand that i lost my bitcoin. I know its not big enoug of bitcoin that im lost but i need to careful because it is money that we holding or we doing in bitcoin i hope it will comeback in what i lost.

[CrypTrends]

haha wow hard to tell... im sure that there are tonsss of people that threw their old hard disc with few thousands of bitcoins on it because they forgot about it or just thought it worth nothing!:)

[quantstamp]

The crazy thing about the current cryptocurrency system is that it's pretty easy to lose crypto if you're not careful. I hope some of these usability based blockchain startups will solve this issue in the near future.

[asep samsudin]

Maybe around two millions. But most Bitcoins lost should be the early ones when the price was very low, now with much higher price people tend to secure their private keys more. Thus the amount of lost Bitcoins should not increase much anymore in my opinion.

The question is whether the Satoshi million Bitcoins are lost, or somebody still have the private keys. I guess either these Bitcoins move or after many years it become clear these Bitcoins are lost.

[Fria]

I read some articles before that more than a million coins has been lost and these coins cannot be used unless the owner will find his digital key.