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Comment by chrisacky

Can you imagine how many of these BTCs are actually lost forever.

Look at this address:

http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/198aMn6ZYAczwrE5NvNTUMyJ5...

The last time this address was touched was 2009, and has an even 8,000 coins (back in the day, this only amounted to 320 mined blocks. You could do that in what?... a few hours/half days?[1]) The owner probably ran his system for a few hours, collected 8000 coins, thought it was a ridiculous concept and deleted everything from his system.

[1]: https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins?timespan=all&s...

parent chrisacky 13 years ago

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