One in Five Bitcoins Vanishes Forever, Chainalysis Finds
1 September 2025
Chainalysis estimates that 3.7 million bitcoins sit in wallets whose private keys no user remembers. The tokens equal roughly twenty percent of the 19.4 million units mined to date. A banknote dropped in the street can still return to its owner - a bitcoin whose key disappears cannot. The protocol grants no back door, no […]