Wallet Recovery Services, a company that helps re-access missing digital keys, said it is averaging 70 requests each day from users locked out of digital wallets. The number of requests tripled from just a month earlier.
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Missing Bitcoin Login Info Accounts for $140B of Inaccessible Digital Currency: Report
A recent report from data firm Chainalysis indicates close to 20%, or about $140B worth, of the world’s supply of Bitcoin, is stranded in wallets due to forgotten passwords or locked accounts. So reports Business Insider.
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