Im interested to know how many people are actually now involved in the bitcoin world, Is there anyway to find out a rough idea of the user base so that we can come to a conclusion on what kind of adoption we are currently at? It seems difficult to gauge since this forum alone has several duplicate accounts from the same people.
. /r/bitcoin has 180k subs to it so would it be safe to assume if we included all miners, users holders and whoever else that we are still at under 1 million users? If this is the case then we still have a long way to go.
Does anyone have any more accurate guesses or way to determine the market?
Ok I will help answer your question with some statistics, there are about 15 million people involved or holding bitcoins as at now and I got this statistics from a reliable source. Here we go;
1. 7.4 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .0001 BTC ($.0861)
2. 4.5 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .001 BTC ($.861)
3. 2.8 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .01 BTC ($8.61)
4. 1.2 million bitcoin addresses with a balance 1 BTC ($86.10)
5. 446,301 bitcoin addresses with a balance 1 BTC ($861.00)
6. 131,709 bit coin addresses with a balance 10 BTC ($8,610)
7. 13,698 bitcoin addresses with a balance 100 BTC ($86,100)
8. 1,658 bitcoin addresses with a balance 1,000 BTC ($861,000).
9. 121 bitcoin addresses with a balance 10,000 BTC ($8,610,000).
10. 1 bitcoin address with a balance 100,000 BTC ($86,100,000)
I hope this helps?
Not much. Big addresses usually belong to exchanges and mining farms, they can also be used by a number of people e.g. company addresses. Knowing how much is stored on the addresses doesn't tell anything about the number of people involved in a specific address, thus your statement about 15 million people holding bitcoins is most likely incorrect. I have a number of addresses with a balance of over 0.1 BTC each, think about how many such addresses can a professional trader have.