Study: Nearly 4 million Bitcoins Lost Forever

This is fascinating — almost half of all bitcoins will eventually become lost or unrecoverable: “According to new research from Chainalysis, a digital forensics firm that studies the bitcoin blockchain, 3.79 million bitcoins are already gone for good based on a high estimate—and 2.78 million based on a low one. Those numbers imply 17% to 23%…

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