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by rabidrat 3106 days ago
I have 1 BTC but I lost the wallet. So that's one less BTC in circulation. (Literally, it is impossible for that BTC to circulate).
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I'm in the same boat. CPU-mined somewhere between 1.5 and 2 BTC back in 2010 or 2011, and lost the wallet years ago. I wonder how much BTC has been lost to similar mistakes, but I guess there's no way to know or even estimate, right?
I managed to loose ~53 BTC too. I'm pretty sure a large percentage of bitcoin is gone forever.

https://www.google.no/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/11/25...