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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Data loss! ... I'd bet a whole bunch of people world wide have lost crypto in the same way.
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If someone loses their key and the BC it allows access to, does someone somewhere gain from it?
Say you forgot to put the tailgate up on your pickup and one of your gold bars falls out, the gold is lost to you, but it still exists and someone might find it. If you lose your key or your hard drive is lost or destroyed, does the bitcoin simply cease to exist, or does it still exist somewhere waiting for someone to take possession of it?