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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post">Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more.&nbsp; Think of it as a donation to everyone.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198.msg1640#msg1640">Quote from: laszlo on June 21, 2010, 01:54:29 PM</a></div><div class="quote">I wonder though, is there a point where the difficulty of generating a new coinbase is so high that it would make more sense to try to recover keys for lost coins or steal other people's coins instead?&nbsp; The difficulty of that is really high so for now it makes a lot more sense to generate but I just wonder what the real figures are.. would that ever become more productive?&nbsp; Maybe Satoshi can address this..<br/></div>Computers have to get about 2^200 times faster before that starts to be a problem.&nbsp; Someone with lots of compute power could make more money by generating than by trying to steal.</div> text/html