Let's add up the KNOWN lost bitcoins

[coinwhat_]

I used to mine some and gather through faucets. Lost almost 0.1 btc and a lot of doge.

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[Sam San]

It is not clear how this could happen,probably some kind of system error.Well if the administrator can help, you may need the help of technical specialists.

[markchoo]

You have a spectrum of losses here, ranging from definitely lost to possibly lost.  You are starting to cross into the territory where you can take some educated guesses at "possibly lost". I was told that the drive is good just the motherboard was bad.

[Labay]

I've lost 250 BTC.

May I ask how you lost it?

I don't mean to doubt you, but just want to make sure they're definitely lost.

Maybe he know bitcoin on past but he remember that he lost it for too long.  The value of that coin was too cheap of course and maybe you think that it was too high now but it is like a cents on the past.

We also hope that we could back to the past and do captcha then save our private keys or some recoverable account.

I don't lost anything because I can recover my account.

[Black boy]

Got it in 2011, forgot about it until BTC hit 3000 dollars. Spent hours trying to remember the dozen+ character password. Finally overwrote that drive to keep from going mad trying to remember the password as the price of BTC went up.

[Leonon1Ellis]

I agree, they're still there. But if instawallet works as advertised, they might as well not be. you may need the help of technical specialists.

[inspirone1]

At least it was a funny attempt to have this cryptocurrencies word game, but you have failed because of many bots are writing here, and they just didn't understand your offer to write those things up.

[Liz D]

I couldn't follow the add up of the lost BTC on this thread but I lost a negligible amount of BTC of recent as well due to my stolen device. It amounts to  0.0003BTC 

[ajuelnah akun]

Some of them make the writing disappear just to attract people's attention, but if you think using your conscience, say it's not luck.

[requiredto]

I do not think the coins should count ... the site's administrator can spend those coins.

[thefatman82]

I have not lost anything. But I recently read information that officially lost about 3 million bitcoins are lost, i.e. in fact, only 14 million of the known 21 million are in circulation. I think they are even more.

[lissandra3612]

If it is sent to a windows box, the window almost immediately gets a virus, I simply remove the HD and reinstall ubuntu to a new drive. TL, DR I can lose 0.05 BTC. Enjoy, bitcoiners in the future! I may have forgotten some of those wallets, who knows?

[bitcoinwhoswho]

Our last annual tally of ~400 known "burn addresses", that is bitcoin addresses with almost assuredly no known private key, totaled 2,759.42507135 BTC as of Dec 2017.

2017
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/12/30/8-97-bitcoins-burned-in-2017/
2016
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/12/21/btc-burn-addresses/

[presduterte]

Our last annual tally of ~400 known "burn addresses", that is bitcoin addresses with almost assuredly no known private key, totaled 2,759.42507135 BTC as of Dec 2017.

2017
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/12/30/8-97-bitcoins-burned-in-2017/
2016
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/12/21/btc-burn-addresses/

I stumbled upon this thread by accident and then just read your 2017 edition -- real good stuff. I especially like the guy who spelled out the lyrics to the rickroll song.

Its funny to read people in 2011/2012 kicking themselves for losing their bitcoin. I would imagine by today they either learned to let it go and live with it or have kicked holes in their heads.

[block_contractor]

Got it in 2011, forgot about it until BTC hit 3000 dollars. Spent hours trying to remember the dozen+ character password. Finally overwrote that drive to keep from going mad trying to remember the password as the price of BTC went up.

If you still have the hard drive and it was a 'quick format', it's possible that you could recover the wallet.dat file and we can have a go at cracking it for you

[Timelord2067]

Our last annual tally of ~400 known "burn addresses", that is bitcoin addresses with almost assuredly no known private key, totaled 2,759.42507135 BTC as of Dec 2017.

2017
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/12/30/8-97-bitcoins-burned-in-2017/
2016
https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/12/21/btc-burn-addresses/

If those lists are accurate and the tally is as you say BTC 2759.42507135 then they will be worth at the current rate of exchange to the US Dollar.  (Which is no small change in the big picture)

[best123]

What a number of lost Bitcoin! This is really good money 🤑💰!
For me, I have not lost Bitcoin before. Mine was when my account on an exchange was hacked and they stole my Bitcoin and when my blockchain.com account was also hacked too.
My heart goes to you all that lost Bitcoin.

[DARK92]

Back in late 2009, I bought 1000 from NewLibertyStandard for about $1.

Not long after I formatted my hard drive and didn't bother with them saving them...

Yeah I know.  What an idiot.

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welcome to the idiot club then because I only bought 1400 for 105 dollars and I left them on your bitcoin market site! unless you want to give them back to me! that would be really very nice! after 15 years! but I've been trying to contact you for 3 years! Have the aliens released you?

[bolshojkush]

Got it in 2011, forgot about it until BTC hit 3000 dollars. Spent hours trying to remember the dozen+ character password. Finally overwrote that drive to keep from going mad trying to remember the password as the price of BTC went up.

I think this is the most idiotic decision. The password can be chosen 100%, especially now that there are quantum computers. Here, of course, the amount on the account decides.

[SlowPP]

I have not lost anything. But I recently read information that officially lost about 3 million bitcoins are lost, i.e. in fact, only 14 million of the known 21 million are in circulation. I think they are even more.

What’s the worst thing that could happen anyway,Well, we hate to say this, but there may be a chance that you won’t be able to see your old Bitcoin and the funds inside it—ever again. According to Cane Island Digital Research, about 4% of available Bitcoins are lost each year.