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Our award-winning editors and reporters create honest and accurate content to help you make the right financial decisions. Key Principles. Is there a limited amount of Bitcoin? Yes, there are only about And there will only ever be 21 million in the future. How Many Bitcoins Are Lost? There's no exact answer. One recent estimate is that about million bitcoins are lost forever. We can make some educated guesses based on how long a Bitcoin has sat in an addresses unmoved.

This study by Unchained Capital details how they estimate the amount of lost bitcoins We also have media reports of large wallets where the owner claims to have lost the private key. Stories like these are common and by knowing about them we can keep an informal minimum tally on lost coins The truth is, no Bitcoin is really "lost" as much as it is permanently locked away.

We know where all the Bitcoins are. When we say a coin is "lost", it is sort of like saying someone locked the coin in a box and lost the key to the box. And this box is impossible to open without the key. Mining is the method through which Bitcoin is secured Because many miners are adding new hashpower, over the last few years blocks have often been found at 9.

This creates new bitcoins faster, so on most days there are actually more than new bitcoins created. Since bitcoins can only be created by being mined, all the bitcoins in existence are all bitcoins that have been mined. The total is BTC. There have been blocks mined. Quick Tip We have guides on how to buy bitcoins and how to get a wallet. Some estimate Satoshi has around 1,, bitcoins BTC. This number is heavily debated, though, as some claim he has around , BTC.

It's unclear exactly how many bitcoins have been stolen. Gox hack , which was the largest Bitcoin hack ever. Another , BTC were stolen from Bitfinex in Together, that adds up to about , BTC. It's likely these stolen coins are still circulating, and may not even be in the hands of the original thieves. It's impossible to know exactly. With some quick math, however, we can estimate the max number of people who are Bitcoin millionaires.

Mike Novogratz - one of the richest and most well-known Bitcoin millionaires. Since there are BTC in circulation, there are a maximum of people holding bitcoins. Slushpool has about , miners. Assuming all pools have similar numbers, there are likely to be over 1,, unique individuals mining bitcoins.

We can also look at the hashrate to make some rough assumptions about how many miners there are. The short answer is: likely sometime in when the last Bitcoin halving is expected to occur. The next halving will occur in , then every 4 years until It is hard to know for sure, though. New blocks are added approximately every 10 minutes. The further out we try to predict when specific halvings will occur, the harder it is.

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