The interest in bitcoin is rising again, and that can be seen is the price. As a whole, bitcoin is now worth more than $ 10,000, and a lot of “newbies” will find this to be much to see and do at the same time to give it up (don’t worry, us too). Fortunately, you do not have a whole bitcoin is to buy it, but you can even do all of it for 1 euro in bitcoin is to buy it.
However, it is, however, a more interesting question is, how many people have actually 1 whole BTC?
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The people or addresses
It is impossible to make statements about the number of people who have all the bitcoin have. Bitcoins can be attached to the bitcoinadressen, some people have multiple addresses and share a single address. For the latter, you need to think of is a exchange of bitcoin is to trading. The grant is used, then a single bitcoinadres, where thousands of people trade.
So now, instead of the number of people watching, we examine the number of bitcoinadressen. We do this by using a blockexplorer in the blockchain of bitcoin is to be analyzed. All of the data on the blockchain is public for everyone to grasp.
The table above is from Friday, the 14th of February. At this time, there are more than 18 million bitcoins released. The table above shows the breakdown of all the bitcoins on the address. In 787.244 recipient addresses is at least 1 bitcoin. There are a total of 29.107.401 addresses will be created, and it has, therefore, to 2.7% on a minimum of one bitcoin.
Once again, this does not mean that there is 787.244 people have at least one bitcoin. A person might, for example, two email addresses, which is the one for 0.8 BTC and the other is for 0.2 BTC. In this case, these addresses will not be recorded as a +1 to bitcoin.
Also, you’ll see that some of the addresses in the thousands of bitcoins they contain. This email address belongs to a company stock, or diversified, where each member has a different amount of bitcoins you can have them. It is also miningbedrijf that all the bitcoins as a reward to be received, but this at one time.
We can, however, be sure that it is between 500,000 and 1 million people have at least a single bitcoin will have.
What’s the deal with the lost bitcoin?
Not all of the bitcoins out of the 18 million are still spending. If you have access to your bitcoins will lose, because your private keys are lost, then you can take those bitcoins lost their value. No one can do more with those bitcoins. Chainalysis, it was concluded in 2017 and that approximately 23% of all the bitcoins be lost forever. Also, the first million bitcoins gemined by Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of bitcoin. These bitcoins are made to the same address, and it is considered to be as an immovable may be considered.
With this in mind, there are so many people with at least one full bitcoin.