There is currently an estimated $140billion in Bitcoin trapped in similar digital wallets where the users have forgotten their password or left it stranded
This bugs the shit out of me -- mistaking potential for actual.
There is not $140 billion "trapped." The missing money is what you spent to buy the bitcoins, and it is lost, it is gone.
Thinking the items that can't be used are worth $140 billion leads to thinking you are owed the $140 billion, and that is terrible and so infuriatingly typical.