If you see it, it will not be accurate and it would be full of misinformation. This is because you can not know the total amount of lost bitcoin. There are some coins that have not been moved since long time ago but which are not lost, but while some are lost. Know one can know the total amount of lost bitcoin because you can not know if the owner of inactive coins still has the private key or not.

Those coins might not be permanently lost, buddy. Some addresses might have unused coins not because the owners lost access, but due to reasons like passing away or being unable to use the internet. Many investors choose to keep some coins untouched for privacy reasons.
the price of Bitcoin is influenced by these lost coins. The more coins are lost, the higher Bitcoin's price tends to be in the market. In the case of Bitcoin, its value goes up due to its limited supply.

some analyses are just estimates, and given the rounded figures, we can't be certain those coins are truly lost forever. As @hugeBlack mentioned, Bitcoins sent to a burn address are more likely to be lost permanently.

You should read this article on lost coins
https://originstamp.com/blog/how-many-bitcoins-have-been-lost/

In my opinion, almost 5% of all BTC are "Lost" or at least inaccessible. Has been 15 years since first block so, to many things happend trough this time. Just my humble opinion.

It is extremely hard to identify the total number of bitcoin lost it is not always gonna be accurate most people define ‘lost’ as coins that have not been moved but how can we know if a coin is just being held by an investor for long-term or the investor already no longer has access to that coin?

Anyway coins that are not in circulation anymore definitely affects the price of bitcoin less supply and more demand that kind of concept so even intentionally people really do take bitcoin and send them to addresses that are inactive so that they can manipulate the market

This data just like everyone has said above will be hard to get even an estimate. The coins that one can confidently say are lost are the ones sent to a burner address and the reward for genesis block. Even those address are a thing to get hold on, because they are different and plenty of those addresses currently. A thread here was once created for burner addresses and it is not active again. So this seriously a huge task to combine those addresses.

One thing I am certain of is the number lost bitcoins yearly will certainly be reducing as move on because back in the early days when bitcoin wasn’t that expensive was the reason why lost bitcoin was common. Right now people take their bitcoin security seriously and one can hardly lose or burn his bitcoin this days except if they got hack which is not lost or forgotten private key which can still be recovered of the private key is later been found

I'm sure Bitcoin as time goes by, losses continue to increase, but I don't know how much certainty and total Bitcoin is lost as time goes by.

But I can only show 7 topics that talk about Bitcoin losses of all time that I have seen on this forum.

Maybe you review below.

1. Topic: Lost large number of bitcoins.
2. Topic: Lost bitcoins.
3. Topic: Lost large number of bitcoins ----> 10 year anniversary.
4. Topic: How many Bitcoins are lost forever?
5. Topic: 8,000 bitcoin Lost because of the blue death screen.
6. Topic: How many Bitcoins have been provably lost? At least ..
7. Topic: Let's add up the KNOWN lost bitcoins.

Who knows, the seven topics above could be important information for you.

That's a lot of bitcoin if you ask me but I'm not complaining if that's the amount but still I can't believe that there's that many speculated amount that's gone forever. Does that number include the bitcoins that haven't moved in a decade or 5 years? Also, I'm curious as to how they make this estimates because it seems to me that the most obvious way which is checking the addresses that have these bitcoins or counting the current circulation of bitcoin in different exchanges are a little bit too on the nose for me. I want to see a chart for that too but I don't want the complex kind of chart though, something that can be understood by reading a few lines or just looking at the chart and not having a hard time understanding it.

I don't think that there's any means to accurately determine the actual amount of Bitcoin that has been lost over time, this is because Bitcoin is decentralized and there's no central authority where data can be compiled, so we wouldn't know the ones that are lost or not been touched for years, no customer service to report lost wallet addresses. All we can get is estimates which can not be accurate.

Not likely. Bitcoin's were readily lost in its early days when it was worth nothing or barely anything because it was just an experiment used by a few thousand people and people didn't take it seriously enough to store their keys safely. These days losing Bitcoin is very rare, and certainly has no effect on the market when hundreds of thousands of bitcoin are traded every day.


I've never seen the 6m estimate, but yeah that is horrendous. It is likely 2 million lost bitcoin, maybe at very most 2.5 million. Might even be less than 2 million, even with 1 million lost from Satoshi. People get the absurd lost estimates like 4m or 6m because they like to pretend any bitcoin that hasn't moved for a certain amount of years is lost. So if they keep that length of time the same, say 10 years, naturally over time that will come to include more and more bitcoin, despite them not being lost but simply held long term.