Quote from: Taras on August 09, 2014, 07:06:56 PM

Quote from: accord01 on December 18, 2013, 03:08:32 AM

Here is the thing though, like any of those 47 individuals or less, could just destroy some ppl's lives with barely any of their holdings...

You know, the problem with that is, we don't really know if those big addresses really belong to individuals.
These addresses could very well be storing funds belonging to thousands of people.
Then, on the other hand, we don't know how many addresses the super-bitcoin-holders have.
We don't know the addresses belonging to the Winklevii. We already know that satoshi has around 20,000 addresses.
The chart is inconclusive at best.

Wow, I really thought that more bitcoins were lost by now. How did they even figure this out??? How do we know the Bitcoins in the addresses with most Bitcoins aren't really lost? We've really only 10 million BTC left to be mined, so we're at about 1/2 of the total amount to be ever distributed. Amazing!