For a deeper dive, my Medium post: medium.com/@danhedl/bitco…
TL;DR - check out this thread 👇
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
Before Satoshi’s invention, the concept of pre-mining didn’t exist. To be this prescient demonstrated incredible maturity.
Unchained Capital did a great analysis of lost coins and estimate: 2.78–3.79M BTC lost which aligns with another more sophisticated analysis done by Chainalysis @jony_levin