Chances are if you were in early enough to get rich from it, you would have been one of the people taken by the early hacks like Mt Gox or have them on a hard drive you forgot about
Even without all the problems with exchanges, lots of people just plain misplace/lose their private keys. I spent some time doing customer service for a wallet app (don't ask) and I'll just say....many such cases.
Chances are if you were in early enough to get rich from it, you would have been one of the people taken by the early hacks like Mt Gox or have them on a hard drive you forgot about
I wonder how many coins have been taken out of circulation by hardware loss/failure? It's gotta be a significant number.
Even without all the problems with exchanges, lots of people just plain misplace/lose their private keys. I spent some time doing customer service for a wallet app (don't ask) and I'll just say....many such cases.