Record number of 3.56 million Bitcoin deemed lost

More than 3.56 million Bitcoin is now considered lost. That is according to data from CryptoQuant: it concerns coins that have not moved for more than ten years. That represents about 17.7% of the total circulating supply, a new record. In the past thirty days alone, more than 14,000 Bitcoin were added.

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In short:

• 3.56 million Bitcoin has not moved for more than ten years and is considered lost.
• This represents 17.7% of the circulating supply, a new record.
• In the past thirty days, more than 14,000 Bitcoin were added to this dormant supply.

Dormant supply reaches new record

Analyst Darkfost shares the finding based on CryptoQuant data. For this, he looked exclusively at Bitcoin that has remained untouched for longer than ten years. Coins that have been idle for that long are in practice considered permanently lost, for example because owners have lost access to their wallet or have died.

The total of 3.56 million Bitcoin is therefore a historic high. For comparison: the total maximum supply of Bitcoin is set at 21 million coins. Of that supply, almost a fifth has now effectively disappeared from circulation.

Lost Bitcoin occasionally returns

Darkfost notes that lost Bitcoin can in exceptional cases resurface. That happened in July 2025, when a number of dormant wallets suddenly became active again. Such situations are rare, however, and have little structural impact on the trend.

The growing amount of lost supply pushes the effective circulating supply of Bitcoin further down. In theory, this increases the scarcity of the remaining coins, although the effect on the price depends on many more factors. Bitcoin is currently trading around $63.000.