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How many people who acquired Bitcoin prior to the first halving have lost their private keys?
I'm guessing it's a surprisingly high number.
It seemed trivial back then and there were no tools for key management and backup.
There's going to be way less than 21 million Bitcoin in circulation, ever.
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