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Went to read a related article from 2021 and this stood out “The New York Times reports that an estimated $140 billion worth of bitcoin is considered lost due
by acc_297 2y ago
Went to read a related article from 2021 and this stood out
“The New York Times reports that an estimated $140 billion worth of bitcoin is considered lost due to forgotten passwords.”
- ASalazarMX 2y agoVery likely. I think I'm not the only guy who curiously ran the miner of this weird bitcoin that was mentioned in a forum, and lost the wallet due a HDD crash/reinstallation/etc. and lack of backups. A few bitcoins didn't mean much then, they were little more than toys like monopoly money.
- RGamma 2y agoI kind of wonder how many BTC I had... Never got around to installing a GPU-accelerated miner back then (they were quite new) as I quickly stopped seeing the point (the more sensible alternative for donating computation was BOINC) and deleted the thing.