The statistic presents the total number of Bitcoins in circulation from first quarter of 2011 to fourth quarter of 2017. The number of Bitcoins has been growing since the creation of this virtual currency in 2009 and reached approximately 16.78 million in December 2017. Those 7 would relate to .00004% of the total Bitcoin and will a a minimal effect. The focus should be with the news and how part it spread. This kind of negative news might have a great impact especially in investor.