Bitcoin Plunged: The Hidden Secrets Wall Street Won’t Admit

One major anxiety concerns the enormous tally of coins that have fallen into permanent stasis. Crypto savants put the figure at around 3.5 to 4 million BTC-nearly 18% of the total supply-that have not moved since Bitcoin’s infancy and are thought to be irretrievably lost. Then comes the not-so-hushed whisper that quantum computing might one day unlock these long-buried wallets with the ease of turning a page. Not confirmed, naturally, but markets love a phantom menace to sniff at during luncheon hours.