#BTC
Bitcoin’s 7 Largest Dormant Wallet Clusters
1️⃣ Satoshi Nakamoto — ~1,000,000 BTC
~$66B (est.)
Mined in 2009–2010. Never moved.
If accessible, it would be one of the largest individual fortunes on earth. Whether lost, preserved, or intentionally untouched — no one knows.
2️⃣ Mt. Gox Hacker Wallet — 79,957$BTC BTC
~$5.3B
Received March 1, 2011. Zero outgoing transactions.
Heavily monitored. Movement would trigger global alerts instantly.
3️⃣ Mystery Wallet (BEQeC) — 83,000 BTC
~$5.5B
No outgoing transactions in history.
Still receives random deposits from curious users.
4️⃣ Unknown 2010 Mining Wallet — 28,000 BTC
~$1.85B
Early solo miner era.
Back then, this was just a few months of home mining.
5️⃣ Early August 2010 Mining Wallet — 9,260 BTC
~$611M
Active only briefly.
Likely an early adopter who either lost keys or passed away.
6️⃣ Mircea Popescu’s Suspected Holdings
~$2B (estimated)
Died in 2021.
It remains unclear whether access instructions were ever left behind.
7️⃣ Ross Ulbricht-Era Wallets
Various dormant wallets tied to the Silk Road period.
Some held over $1B before suddenly moving in 2020 after years of inactivity — while Ulbricht himself remained imprisoned.
The Bigger Picture
According to estimates from btcgraveyard, around 3.7 million BTC may be permanently lost.
At ~$70K per BTC, that’s roughly $244 billion in inaccessible Bitcoin.
That’s not just lost money — it’s permanently reduced supply.
Which means:
Circulating supply is lower than the 21M headline number
Long-term scarcity may be higher than modeled
Every lost coin increases the relative value of surviving ones
Bitcoin’s scarcity isn’t theoretical.
Part of it is buried forever in forgotten hard drives, dead laptops, and lost seed phrases.
And none of it has moved in over a decade.