It really depends if we die and on how our children's children view Bitcoin. It's code, it's an explanation of an voluntary economic system, literally any part of it is subject to change given adequate reason. Never is only useful for physically impossible things, like light going faster than the speed of light. It is possible that code changes, for example, give satoshi's coins to miners as the block reward starts to decline for some security related reason and enough people in a hundred years agree to run the software. I'm not saying it's going to happen, I'm just saying that it's not outside of the realm of being a solution to some problem in a future which has infinite unknown problems.
I think lost coins should stay as it is. Any changes in the code for returning some of the lost coins will have a lot of consequences. What if they’re not lost? What if after that we will decide to “find” other peoples coins too? Should we rely on people's honesty again? I think we shouldn’t. Lost means lost. Period. If we’re gonna lost 90% of it — okay. Let it be. No more fiat money.
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