{"id":17020,"date":"2017-11-27T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17020"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:24:11","slug":"4-million-bitcoins-gone-forever-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17020","title":{"rendered":"4 Million Bitcoins Gone Forever Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to new research from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainalysis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chainalysis<\/a>, a digital forensics firm that studies the bitcoin blockchain, 3.79 million bitcoins are already gone for good based on a high estimate\u2014and 2.78 million based on a low one. Those numbers imply 17% to 23% of existing bitcoins, which are today <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/11\/20\/bitcoin-8000-high-hold-record\/\">worth<\/a> around $8,500 each, are lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/11\/25\/lost-bitcoins\/\">Lost Bitcoins: 4 Million Bitcoins Gone Forever Study Says | Fortune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the future, more bitcoins will be lost. But the rate at which they disappear will be much lower than in the past since, now that they\u2019re so valuable, people will be more vigilant about keeping track of them (unlike this poor fellow out who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/11\/29\/5156246\/7-5-million-bitcoins-on-hard-drive-thrown-away-in-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threw away<\/a> a hard drive with the key to 7,500 bitcoins).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new research from Chainalysis, a digital forensics firm that studies the bitcoin blockchain, 3.79 million bitcoins are already gone for good based on a high estimate\u2014and 2.78 million based on a low one. Those numbers imply 17% to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[742,1389,1379,1427],"class_list":["post-17020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchains","tag-crypto-currency","tag-lost-atsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17021,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020\/revisions\/17021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}