Is there a way to determine the number of people who are actually using Bitcoin till date? Who would have access to such information? Meaning a way to find out, how many new people have used Bitcoin in 2016 , so that we can say exponential growth is natural not artificially created by hoarders.
I think there is no way to determine this. there is nothing that can determine the actual growth accurately but i bet you there is increasing growth of people because of rising price.
Yes, it is very hard to trace the actual numbers of the bitcoin users, particularly in everyday happen in our lives there is lot of new users around the world are getting interest unto it or to adopt why bitcoin really is.