Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 10:41:46 AM

Quote from: BayAreaCoins on June 27, 2021, 07:34:16 PM

No they wouldn't. That's not how this stuff works.

No, but this is how the news work, fake or not, doesn't even matter, since all exaggerate.
Some of those numbers are for real, but not all. And if you start adding up all those alleged lost coins in huge amounts from the news you have a good chance to already get to more than the current supply.

Exactly, if we add all of them and then we throw in the number of so-called hacks and all the bitcoin stolen we might arrive at the conclusion not only a few guys own all the coins but they've also been robbed 10 times and they've managed to get their coins back. Same for the numbers of users or the percentage of the population owning bitcoin, adding those percentages we would end up with more than 4-5 hundred million, close to the total number of all the transactions ever made in the blockchain.
Oh, and let's not forget in that list knightmb, he had 370k BTC.

Quote from: davis196 on Today at 11:57:24 AM

This is the first time I hear or read anything about this guy.
If he really had 1 million BTC,he would be way more famous and popular across the crypto community.The crypto news websites would be gossiping about his Bitcoin wealth every day.He would've been as famous as Satoshi Nakamoto,Roger Ver,Craig Wright and Elon Musk.

I don't think he had that amount, I don't think even 1/10 of that claim but at the same time why the hell must anyone owning larger amounts of bitcoins be the talk of the town and make the headlines of every news like rappers do when spending money around? Take a guess, how many people have heard of Bernard Arnault? Well, he is richer than Musk but I don't see him twittering all day long!