
18-23% of the total cryptocurrency supply of bitcoin (BTC) in circulation is immobile for long periods of time. What if it's lost?
"It's estimated that between 3.89 million and 4.87 million BTC are missing," Twitter user Checkmatey (@Checkmatey), a senior analyst at cryptocurrency on-chain data analytics firm Glassnode, told X. "It's impossible to directly measure how many BTC are missing," he said.