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		mwcremer on May 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding Which raises an interesting question: what fraction of Bitcoin, for example, is effectively lost forever? I assume minuscule, but like entropy it never decreases?

woodruffw on May 19, 2022 | [–]

You assume wrong! Approximately one in five BTC minted so far has been lost.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/business/tens-of-billions...

andirk on May 20, 2022 | [–]

I assume its some large % of all bitcoin is lost especially from early adopters mining thousands of then worthless tokens.

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