📖 Nearly one-fifth of all Bitcoin that will ever exist is permanently gone. Forgotten passwords, destroyed hard drives, and abandoned wallets have locked billions of dollars out of circulation. One famous case is James Howells, who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC, now buried under tons of garbage in a landfill. These coins will never move, reducing the real supply of Bitcoin far below its theoretical maximum. Some say they’re lost forever, but others wonder if one day, a forgotten key will resurface and shock the market.