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Yeah I have 3 bitcoins that were given to me at the very start by a friend who was into it. I shrugged it off as something that'd never take off. Now I've been digging around through my box of old HDDs and USB sticks!

It will be interesting to see how these "lost" bitcoins are handled long-term when quoting things like market capitalization.

Perhaps we can start flagging wallets with no activity since [date when BTC value exploded] as "probably lost". A crude heuristic, to be sure, but perhaps useful.

Same here. The result of early mining, but now effectively lost as they're on none of the USB sticks I have and I suspect one of these Linux installers was the culprit.

I did the same at the time. I know in which computer mine is. But I know I trashed that computer not long after...

There should be a bitcoin recovery service, those coins could be worth serious amounts of money, now.