> wallet keys get lost making stored bitcoins unavailable This does not remove Bitcoin from the network, just because it is never spent. > The developers/comm

> wallet keys get lost making stored bitcoins unavailable This does not remove Bitcoin from the network, just because it is never spent. > The developers/community may very well decide to change the total amount of bitcoins available in the future Actually it's not possible. You can fork the network if you get some level of consensus from developers, miners and node runners (not to mention a community that is willing to accept their value be debased) and increase the supply, but then by definition your coin is not on the Bitcoin chain, it is on your new forked chain.