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Quotable Satoshi | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +5 
 Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more.  Think of it as a donation to everyone.
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Men ☕ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If someone collect 20k bitcoins and die without sharing seeds, then no one can touch them and become useless?
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the world beyond funny cats 🇵🇸🏴‍☠️... | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Would also have to hide identity and/or keep the keys memorized, deleted from all hardware

With the world knowing this guy had 20k bitcoins, his heirs could get his hardware hacked to find any keys stored