Forbes calculated the "dead" bitcoins

The volume of cryptocurrency lost and “dead” for the global market, primarily bitcoins, is estimated at $ 21 billion. Such calculations were held by Forbes magazine.

According to the publication, the total cryptocurrency market, according to Coinmarcetcap for September 2017, is $ 144 billion. In reality, it has liquid assets of $ 123 billion.

To understand the amount of “lost treasures” Forbes, among other things, he traced the wallets where cryptocurrencies are stored, and decided to consider them “dead” if they did not make outgoing transactions since March 1, 2013. From this moment, as the magazine explains, "Bitcoins have received a recognized significant material value."

In addition, Forbes believes that cryptocurrencies with artificially inflated cost using transactions conducted by robots can be considered unliky. The publication warns that in the near future there can be many such “non -excesses” as a result of ICO (an analogue of IPO for cryptocurrencies).

In Russia, the status of bitcoin and other virtual currencies is not officially defined. Now cryptocurrency can be bought at different sites, including in exchangers. At the end of August, the Ministry of Finance proposed allowing the purchase of cryptocurrencies only to qualified investors and only through the exchange. As the Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev said, for “just ordinary people” this is “very dangerous investments”.