Cracking a $2 million crypto wallet - The Verge

The issue of "lost coins" is a real one. Knowing how hard it is for people to even keep digital photos around, I worry that self-custody of digital money is just too difficult. Relying on "crypto banks" may be a much better answer for most people.

It also raises one issue with Bitcoin that I don't have a good answer for… over time more and more Bitcoin will be lost. The keys will be irretrievably gone. How do you handle this loss in a mathematically finite system like Bitcoin. Over time, the coins get more valuable just because of the lost coins. But it is also very hard to identify a lost coin…