Quote from: peter0425 on Today at 04:31:39 PM

Quote from: Joy- maker on Today at 12:09:33 PM

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It’s hard to believe these are accurate numbers. We know that there should always be allowances because not everyone will be honest about their ownership of crypto. Most likely there are people who would hide that fact just to protect themselves.

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Am now wrapping up with this word of encouragement and advise, that those individuals who have not yet get started with bitcoin it's still early for them they can get started as soon as possible, because space offers vast potential for future growth and many more.

I honestly believe there could be more people who hold bitcoin but I agree that those who are not holding yet should consider doing so. Those who have been holding bitcoin is a testament to how beneficial it can be

Most Articles like this usually clarifies the information or data by saying it’s an estimate and seriously this estimates has a large Margin gap between it and a real number, the data is drawn from the available number of bitcoin on addresses, since addresses are actually public you can see them and it has nothing to do with decentralization or privacy. The major problem though is actually the fact that multiple wallet addresses can be owned by one person.

The HD wallet itself allows many or multiple addresses to be accessed by one master private key and a user can actually holds bitcoin on many of the addresses and this addresses might be calculated during research for one person. So Ideally I think the number of holders should even be less than this estimate. But regardless this is an eye opener to people that even now is still early for bitcoin.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 12:38:52 PM

Wrapping up is correct.
raping up is a crime.

and 4% of 8 billion is 320 million

only 20 million coins are mined

at least 2 million are lost.

thus 18 million coins are owned by 320 million people

or 18/320= 0.0563 btc for the owners on average

So your goal as an owner should be to own at least 0.1 coins

Is Satoshi personal bitcoin holding of averagely 1 million bitcoin also added to the 2 million bitcoin lost, even though it is not technically suitable to call it lost since it is still on a spendable address but for this discussion should be in that category