Bitcoin's total supply is locked at 21 million coins—this much everyone knows. But here's what most people miss: somewhere between 3 and 4 million BTC have been lost forever. Forgotten wallets, destroyed keys, dead exchanges. Gone.
That's not just a number. It means the actual circulating supply is dramatically tighter than the official cap suggests. You're not just dealing with a 21M hard limit—you're dealing with something even scarcer.
Shifts your entire perspective on scarcity, doesn't it?
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CoinBasedThinking
· 19h ago
Wow, this logic is pretty intense. Does that mean the actual circulating supply might only be 17-18M?
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GasFeeNightmare
· 19h ago
Whoa, I need to think about this... The actual circulating supply is only 17 million?
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HodlOrRegret
· 19h ago
Wow, really? Does that mean the actual circulating supply is even less than we imagined?
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LightningWallet
· 19h ago
Wow, when you think about it this way, it's really becoming more and more scarce...
Bitcoin's total supply is locked at 21 million coins—this much everyone knows. But here's what most people miss: somewhere between 3 and 4 million BTC have been lost forever. Forgotten wallets, destroyed keys, dead exchanges. Gone.
That's not just a number. It means the actual circulating supply is dramatically tighter than the official cap suggests. You're not just dealing with a 21M hard limit—you're dealing with something even scarcer.
Shifts your entire perspective on scarcity, doesn't it?