Quote from: RapTarX on October 29, 2019, 01:31:51 PM

61% BTC is held by 16237 addresses.

That sounds about right to me given that there can't be that many bitcoin holders with respect to a significant percentage of the world population. 16237 is actually a lot, but that's assuming this represents individual people which I'm sure it doesn't.

If crypto keeps appealing to people and attracts new investors/owners, the distribution will eventually even out and there will be more addresses/individuals holding that 61% of bitcoin. That might take another decade or two, but it'll happen.

Quote from: franky1 on October 29, 2019, 01:41:04 PM

if you dont hold the private key, the coins are not yours
a century ago if you dont have actual gold. the bank note promissory note is telling you that you dont own gold.. you dont even own the paper. you just 'bear'(hold/keep) the paper that can be exchanged for gold.

Yeah, funny how the same situation basically recreated itself with bitcoin.