Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million BTC are lost or unlikely to be moved. This is approximately 13–18% of the total volume.
We have collected for you the loudest stories of BTC wallet losses:
- In 2013, James Howells threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins.
- American programmer Stefan Thomas forgot the password for his IronKey, and ended up losing 7,002 bitcoins.
- Gerald Cotten died in 2018. He was the founder of the QuadrigaCX exchange and all his savings are lost because no one knows the passwords to his wallets.
- Gabriel Abed - founder of a blockchain technology company lost about 800 bitcoins because his laptop broke and he did not make backup copies.
- Politician David Arakhamia lost 400 bitcoins after he deleted a file with keys.
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