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10 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Satoshi's ~1.1M BTC sit still while companies, ETFs, and nation-states build stacks of their own. A sourced map of who holds the 21 million — and why the biggest whales still have no names.
Cross-cutting reading of iconic Bitcoin losses by mechanism: forgotten password (Thomas), physical disposal (Howells), custody-collapse (QuadrigaCX, Mt. Gox, FTX). Tied to Bitcoin's irreversibility.
James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive with 7,500 BTC in 2013. It is buried in a Newport, Wales landfill. A UK High Court rejected his £495M excavation suit in January 2025.
FTX, the world's second-largest crypto exchange, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founder SBF resigned. ~$8B in customer funds had been misappropriated; he was later sentenced to 25 years.
119,756 BTC stolen from Bitfinex (Aug 2016). DOJ arrested Lichtenstein and Morgan in Feb 2022 and recovered ~94,000 BTC — the largest US financial seizure at the time.
Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 BTC in 2011 for a Bitcoin explainer video, stored the keys on a 10-attempt IronKey, and lost the password. By the 2021 NYT report, 2 of 10 attempts remain.
Stefan Thomas made an early viral Bitcoin explainer video and an early JS toolkit, became Ripple's CTO, and co-created Interledger — all while locked out of 7,002 BTC since around 2011.
Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed after CEO Gerald Cotten died in India (Dec 2018). C$250M owed to ~115,000 customers became inaccessible. The OSC later ruled it was a long-running fraud.
Mt. Gox — once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange handling ~70% of transactions — filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo. CEO Mark Karpeles revealed ~850,000 BTC (~$450M) had been lost.
How Bitcoin Core manages keys, constructs transactions, selects coins, estimates fees, and exposes functionality through RPC, REST, and ZMQ interfaces.