250 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: There are at least 3,034 bitcoins certainly lost forever as of 2022 bitcoin
OP is likely rounding up from "almost certainly lost forever" to "certainly lost forever" just like
  • every hodler rounds up from "almost certainly no one will guess my private key"
  • and like you rounded up from slightly inaccurate to "misinformation"
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @AngeloMetal 21 Oct 2022 freebie
I don't think I was very pedantic. Certainly lost forever versus likely lost forever isn't the same thing, protocol speaking. There might be a time in a hundred years perhaps, that these seemingly lost bitcoins are brought into circulation.
Furthermore, the consideration that 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 is a burning address is arbitrary. The specific address has the same chances to be generated as any other address. The fact that it looks weird doesn't change that fact.
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