Sorry - noob here so this might be a silly question; how do you know for sure they're lost Bitcoin and someone isn't just hodling hard?
jep this centralises bitcoin again, it gives reasons to kill someone to then claim you found a lost wallet, with unknown ownership
#1. Search Bitcointalk & google, many people lost access to founds, damaged HDD, death, etc...
#2. People kills for money, always have and always will, but usually is a more direct route...
Killing someone for an unknown ownership does not make sense, splitting profits with 11000 people, less. LOL. Jajajajajajaja
People kill because they can grab money fast, "they know the password."
But,
Anyway... A natural or artificial death, will destroy Bitcoin network in the end.
You die in a car accident, and nobody in your circle knows where you have the founds, or what is the password.
Or a plane crash, any unexpected death without will, will result in loss.
Or you get amnesia, and totally forget, or head trauma.
I'm not an elephant, i cannot remember all the 50 passwords I have on the internet...
Can you rember all?
If you get Alzheimer ?
#3. Bitcoin Virtual banks can solve the problem of death without will, or lost/forgotten passwords.
Also solve the problem of Fee, and the problem of waiting lines,
But virtual banks cannot guarantee hacker free.
Or return investment if stolen.
Also they centralize the network.
The problem worse than centralization, is the death of the network...
Many people does not seem to see. Bitcoin is already dead.
If continues as it is, Bitcoin has already died in the future.
Ask any time traveler. LOL. Jajajajajajaja
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11945420/Who-was-John-Titor-the-time-traveller-who-came-from-2036-to-warn-us-of-a-nuclear-war.html