Quote from: TaunSew on May 17, 2015, 08:18:24 AM

Quote from: kazuki49 on May 16, 2015, 11:01:36 PM

Quote from: Lloydimiller4 on May 16, 2015, 10:41:08 PM

Quote from: smooth on May 16, 2015, 10:10:29 PM

Quote from: Lloydimiller4 on May 16, 2015, 09:57:13 PM

Here I don't quite agree that we have the assumed 25k persons holding XMR. I would estimate it to be at the most half, most likely around 7-8k holders, but I'm really just ball-parking as we don't have any good way to determine how many are out there.

Obviously we are totally guessing, but Poloniex has 71k accounts registered (from the bottom of their home page). Given the prominence of XMR on that exchange over the past year I would guess a pretty significant portion (obviously the preceeding three words describe a very wide range) of that number either has XMR or has traded it (but may not happen to own any right now).

You make a good point, I haven't considered that perspective. Hard to determine what accounts are real/which have interest in monero. I guess only Busoni and some Polo admins have this info.

because of how Monero blockchain works we'll never know how many single addresses are being used... I think smooth is right and thanks to polo the number of xmr users could as well be near 50k or more making risto's estimations very conservative.

Addresses =/=users. 95% of those addresses are probably Risto's, when he snuck into the aslyum's computer system,and created scripts to spam address creation. Shocked

The 70K number is not addresses either, it is registered polo accounts.

Risto is a lot of things but hacker is not one of them, or if he is he sure does a great job of hiding it.

I personally doubt the number is as high as 50K though. Probably a lot of the Polo accounts are fake/throwaways, and some are from people only ever interested in some other coin. But there are probably a few Monero users who never had polo accounts too.