Oddbean new post about login | logout I have this vision in my head that someday all these paintings are going to start turning up at estate auctions with paper wallets attached to the back containing fortunes.
Theoretically speaking, something like that could bloody well happen! 🤷♂️ I'm willing to bet that a hefty portion of my holdings would be considered "lost" bitcoin my many. 🤣🤣🤣
Big if true.
Also, it’s possible that (far) in the future, computing power gets sufficiently advanced to break private keys. The network would move to a new cryptography scheme at the first hint it was possible, but “lost” coins wouldn’t be moved, and would end up being “salvaged”. Much like much like a 1600s sunk pirate ship filled with gold. That gold was likewise “lost”, but now we have the technology (submarines) to retrieve it.