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.
It is impossible to know the actual or exact number of people who using bitcoin every year. We cannot also depend the number of people who using bitcoin by the wallet address, because some of bitcoin users use two or more bitcoin wallet or digital wallet. We may measure that the number of people who using bitcoin is increasing because if you use internet, there are many pages or sites saying about bitcoin. Many people will see that, and maybe they will curious what is bitcoin and they will find out what it is. And they will know that they can earn money using bitcoin. Therefore, the number of people who using bitcoin will increase.