{"id":184785,"date":"2026-06-21T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=184785"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:40:10","slug":"satoshis-lost-coin-quote-hits-16-year-mark-as-millions-of-btc-are-deemed-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=184785","title":{"rendered":"Satoshi\u2019s Lost-Coin Quote Hits 16-Year Mark as Millions of BTC Are Deemed Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen years ago today, Bitcoin\u2019s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, told a Bitcointalk user that losing coins was not a flaw in the system. It was a feature. The discussion happened 16 years ago today, on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called \u201cDying bitcoins.\u201d A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen years ago today, Bitcoin\u2019s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, told a Bitcointalk user that losing coins was not a flaw in the system. It was a feature. The discussion happened 16 years ago today, on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called \u201cDying bitcoins.\u201d A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":184786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}