70,000 Empty Accounts: The Owner Doesn't Know He Left 120 SOL Behind

If you are active in the Solana ecosystem, there is a very high chance you have money sitting completely frozen on the blockchain. Recently, I was analyzing some on-chain data and stumbled upon a single address holding 70,000 empty Token Accounts . That is roughly 120 SOL (thousands of dollars) just lying dead for months. The owner probably had no idea. Why does this happen? It all comes down to how Solana handles storage space. What is locked rent in Solana? Solana requires a ~0.002 SOL deposit