I learned from the study conducted by the chainalysis that Five million bitcoins (one third of available supply)
supply is 17 million. 5/17= 0.29 not one third (just nitpicking though)
and i can't help but notice the numbers you quoted don't even amass to 2 million let alone 5.
is controlled by the 1,000 largest long term investors,
i would love to see a list of these 1000 investors and the real evidence that the coins belong to each of them....
7.4 million in total long-term investment.
now i am confused. you said 5 million now you say 7.4? what am i missing here.
It is also known that at least 2.3 million bitcoins have been lost.
wrong. it is NOT known.
there are a lot of different
guesses about it and each of them come up with a different number some small and some way bigger than this.
1. Satoshi Nakamoto - 1 000 000 bitcoins, which are still untouchable.
an estimate not facts. so it can not be accurate.
3. Mt.Gox - 166 000 bitcoins, 34 000 of them were recently sold collapsing thereby the market.
4. FBI — they confiscated 144,000 bitcoins from Silk Road.
you started this by calling them "long term investors" how did these two end up being "investors"?