TL;DR: At present only 120,000 people in the world (1 in every 20,000 people with the capability to do so) have a bitcoin holding valued at least $1,000.The intent of this thread is to find out and update the statistic on how bitcoins as investment/holdings are distributed according to the size of actual holding (note that this differs from the largest addresses -list).
The intent is not to try to identify individual holders or the size of their holdings.
Assumptions and conventions:
- Bitcoins are overwhelmingly controlled by individuals (ie. no significant corporate/public sector holdings exist); if bitcoins are held by an institution, they are credited to the beneficial owner(s)
- The brackets are logarithmic; the highest bracket is
BTC10,000+, second highest is 1,000-10,000, etc.
The consensus is as follows:
26. Oct 2013
| #People | #Bitcoins | #TotalBitcoins |
| 50 | BTC10k+ | 2.9M |
| 1100 | BTC1k-10k | 3.1M |
| 12k | BTC100-1k | 3.3M |
| 58k | BTC10-100 | 1.8M |
| 110k | BTC1-10 | 0.4M |
| 110k | BTC0.1-1 | 0.1M |
| 57k | BTC0-0.1 | 0.0M |
Total: 11.5M bitcoins, 350k owners
120,000 people own bitcoins that are valued at more than $1,000 (
BTC5 or more).
A record-breaking 12 million people around the world were millionaires last year, with the US experiencing the biggest jump in super-rich residents.
bitcoin is strong but very very tiny. imagine it being strong and big/mainstream. every single bitcoin owner will have a blast.