The old forum can be referred to as the good old days. When I stumble on those topics from the early days, then it was all about Bitcoin no bullshit, no low quality posts, no merit phishing just pure undiluted Bitcoin talk going on. Those guys interacted with some of those bitcoin developers. The pizza guy was here too. Some of them have left here in to other things, some may be chilly somewhere in a country where Bitcoin isn't taxed and living their best lives.
For those wallets, some are lost the owners may have died, some have forgotten their password or seed phrase. Some are just holding until Bitcoin hits $1 million.

I would act like I believe you not an alt. You sounded like you av been on a Time machine  
Well to your post
We can't really tell if the wallet keys has been lost or the owner is an holder or even dead.
Well then bitcoin barely had any value and people could mine up-to 50BTC per block
We of today don't even know it's future value not to mention those in the period where bitcoin were known only by a couple of few.

Curious how you could tell that they holding to 1 million and not $100K or$10M.

Campaigns weren't around or that popular then
Not to mention some members stopped coming for various reasons not excluding Losing interest, death etc
But many are very much active till date.

Going through it gives a nostalgic feeling because we can see many had predicted Bitcoin to sky rocket but never imagined it would cross $72k and even during those days there were people who didn't believe much in Bitcoin so there were believers and fudders but believers won. Back in those days reaching $1k was huge achivement and I still remember how i couldn't believe when BTV touched $1k it was like $100k that time and I am talking about the days between 2015 and 2016.

Being in a Time Machine right? Obviously it’s the one thing man can’t have, a chance to reverse the time as this would offset the very balance in nature itself. So, any fantasy of having a chance to buy at such a low price is in the wind. Bitcoin at that price could mean there are no more investors but, we ain’t about that now.

It’s had to imagine anyone who knew what Bitcoin was at that early stage, even with a small price projection to ever abandoning their wallet. The most that could happen is a lost key or having there coins on a non existent exchange but of course, they should have known better.

So we take advantage of the times we have in today to do the most at where we find price, when our resources do allow and the space we’ve got in this forum.

It is way easier to hold nowadays, compared to holding on 2011... only a few people will keep their bitcoin from those years

Of course, it's nostalgic to read those early forum post here, some of them might have even interact with Satoshi himself. Maybe some of them are self made billionaires and still active in this community, or at you have describe, could have lost their bitcoin forever.

And you can't blame some of them who might forget their bitcoin and their private keys and mnemonic phrases. Because in the beginning, no one would have thought that the price is going to be big in the future.

What if I told you that the time machine exists ? It can travel to year where the price for one coin is $127 USD.

This time machine is called, Monero.

The portal won't last for long and this post will be viewed in near future on the "waybackmachine" the same way we view old Bitcoin posts from the past.

Cheers future viewers, I'm here in the past, doing the right thing.

 

Who would have thought that bitcoin will have this worth after a decade? I believe most of them thought this currency was just like new currency that won"t go mainstream. Many of them are now regretting for not keeping some of their bitcoins though.

And in today's situation, it is quite easy to hold because people are thinking that this currency will go bigger in the future as they can compare to what happened after more than a decade of its existence in the market. They have now the basis that this currency has some sort of bright future.

Well, thanks to the old forum users as they're the first ones that have believed to the potential of BTC. They've helped to carve the path and way for it to get introduced until it has come now to the place where it is.

They look abandon but wallets lately that are that old have been surprisingly became alive. The owners are aware of those wallets and they're just waiting for some time until they sell it. That only means that it's worth the wait and the trust and faith that they've put to Bitcoin from all of those years that they've knew it.

If we look at the past, many people who owned bitcoin eventually died and couldn't access it anymore, maybe we can understand this because in the early days of bitcoin, no one thought that bitcoin could be what it is today, it's just that some people believed in bitcoin as future assets. I often read on social media people's experiences at that time when it was so easy to get bitcoin, for example from a faucet, but quite a few of them ended up forgetting the Seed Phrase which meant they couldn't access it anymore.

However, as time goes by, we realize how important it is for us to pass on our Phase Seed to our wife or children so that when things happen that we don't want, our assets can still be accessed. So the lesson we can take from people in the past is that passing on bitcoin assets to their family is indeed important. but before inheriting we must first educate ourselves about bitcoin.