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The Cryptocurrency lost forever. From some articles i've been reading i could extract this interesting information, seems like 20% of all circulating supply of BTC hasn't move in a decade, and for the nature of the cryptocurrency world, probably it's lost forever and will never return to market. It's amazing. I don't think when our grandfathers put some money "under the mattress" this can happen too. But look at the value. Im like OMFG ----------------- "Bitcoin owners who've passed away account for some of the inaccessible Bitcoin. When the 30-year old founder of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX died, he also took with him the private keys to around $190 million worth of various cryptocurrencies, including close to 1,000 BTC. One Reddit user recently found an old computer belonging to his late brother, who owned 533 Bitcoin—but the device's hard drive was missing. Although it's impossible to say exactly how much Bitcoin has been directly lost as a result of negligence or plain misfortune, it is likely to be in the tens of thousands at the very least. If you take a more relaxed approach and consider any Bitcoin that hasn't moved for more than five years to be lost, then around 20% of all Bitcoin fits into this category. According to a June 2020 report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, around 3.7 million BTC hasn't been touched for at least half a decade—that's around $40.6 billion worth of Bitcoin that might never be moved again. Crypto data firm Glassnode estimates that about 3 million Bitcoin are lost forever." ------------------------------- Source: https://decrypt.co/37171/lost-bitcoin-3-7-million-bitcoin-are-probably-gone-forever #Cryptocurrency

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