Bitcoin's total supply is locked at 21 million coins—this much everyone knows. But here's what most people miss: somewhere between 3 and 4 million BTC have been lost forever. Forgotten wallets, destroyed keys, dead exchanges. Gone.



That's not just a number. It means the actual circulating supply is dramatically tighter than the official cap suggests. You're not just dealing with a 21M hard limit—you're dealing with something even scarcer.

Shifts your entire perspective on scarcity, doesn't it?
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CoinBasedThinkingvip
· 7h ago
Wow, this logic is pretty intense. Does that mean the actual circulating supply might only be 17-18M?
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GasFeeNightmarevip
· 7h ago
Whoa, I need to think about this... The actual circulating supply is only 17 million?
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HodlOrRegretvip
· 7h ago
Wow, really? Does that mean the actual circulating supply is even less than we imagined?
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LightningWalletvip
· 8h ago
Wow, when you think about it this way, it's really becoming more and more scarce...
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