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.
Counting the actual number of people who currently use bitcoin is really hard considering that there's a large number of users who invested and using it payment with world wide coverage. May be the bitcoin team can release an estimated number but not the actual as transction may come and go in just a few seconds.