​💥 MISSING ON THE BLOCKCHAIN: BILLIONS VISIBLE... BUT FOREVER LOST 🔐💸

​1️⃣ The Pantheon of the Unfortunate 🏛️

​Behind the numbers lie individual tragedies that have become legendary:

Satoshi Nakamoto: The King's Treasure 👑
​Estimated loss: ~1.1 million BTC
​The story: The creator of Bitcoin mined about 1.1 million tokens in the very beginning. These funds have remained untouched for 16 years. ⏳

​Time is running out for Stefan Thomas: The former Ripple engineer has only 2 attempts left on his IronKey key before his 7,002 BTC (~640 M$) are erased by the hardware itself. 🔒

​The Newport dump: James Howells continues his legal battle to excavate a landfill site. His hard drive, containing 8,000 BTC, has been lying under tons of garbage since 2013. A careless mistake worth 730 M$. 🗑️

​The Estonian mystery: Rain Lõhmus holds the largest individual loss of Ethereum (250,000 ETH). Ironically for a banker, he lost his key during the 2014 ICO. 🔑

​Matthew Mellon: Hundreds of millions in XRP went to the grave in 2018, due to the failure to transmit the codes for his encrypted phone. 📱

​Mircea Popescu: The drowning of this "maximalist" in 2021 may have sealed the fate of nearly 1 million BTC, although this figure remains debated by analysts. 🌊

​The QuadrigaCX enigma: The death of Gerald Cotten took away the keys to $200 million of client funds. Between proven fraud and empty wallets, the case remains the greatest trauma of the Canadian ecosystem. 🕵️‍♂️

Rain Lõhmus: 250,000 ETH (~760 M$) lost since 2014. The password has never been recovered. 🏦

​James Howells: 8,000 BTC (~730 M$) lying under tons of debris in a Welsh dump. 🚜

​Stefan Thomas: 7,002 BTC (~640 M$) protected by a USB key. He has only 2 attempts left before final locking. 🔑

​"The code is the law, but forgetting is the sentence."

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