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$30 Billion Bitcoin Fortune Lost Forever?
16 days ago1.4K views
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth digital coinage - perhaps billions of dollars worth - may have been lost in the past decade alone. Of the 16.4 million Bitcoins said to be in circulation in the middle of 2017, close to 3.8 million may have been lost. An estimate of the value of the loss works out to more than $30 billion.
In what's known as cold storage, one of the best features of Bitcoin is its ability to be stored offline on local hardware.