How many people in the world own bitcoin

1. The number is about 50000

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Recently, logic thinking & amp; The video of APP founder Luo Zhenyu talking about his investment in bitcoin was exposed again. In the video, Luo Zhenyu said that because he believed in the trend, he bought 100 bitcoins, which are now worth 3 million

LUO Zhenyu said that the simplest way to invest is: as long as you believe in the trend, you don't care after investing. It's more important to increase your ability to earn money

Unlike all currencies,

bitcoin does not rely on a specific monetary institution. It is generated by a large number of calculations based on a specific algorithm. Bitcoin economy uses a distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The decentralized nature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially manipulate the value of bitcoin through mass proction. The design based on cryptography can make bitcoin only be transferred or paid by the real owner. This also ensures the anonymity of money ownership and circulation transactions. The biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total amount of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity

on December 17, 2017, bitcoin reached an all-time high of $19850

3. mining is that you help bitcoin network out of the computer to help witness the transaction, and bitcoin network gives you bitcoin as a salary. At present, the attitude of the international community is as follows: to recognize the status of currency: for example, the United States, Germany and other countries that recognize it as a speculative commodity, but do not recognize it as a currency; China and other countries that prohibit the use and trading of currency; Thailand, Russia and other countries that recognize that non recognition has little to do with mining, but it is mainly decided by the national system, just like some countries have freedom, In some countries, only the two countries that do not recognize it are: the prevention of the huge bubble of national speculation and the great risk (most countries have this worry) to prevent the rise of bitcoin from causing the status of the legal tender to be shaken (some countries consider it so).

4. Let's make a brief conclusion: according to the data a year ago, about 500000 BTCs are worth a little bit of taste:
1) two American brothers, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, claim to hold about 1% of bitcoin in the world? Now the total amount of bitcoin in the world is about 12 million BTC, that is to say, these two brothers hold about 120000 bitcoins. Maybe you don't think these are too valuable, but note that the starting price of bitcoin for these two people is below $10 / BTC. At the current market price of $430 / BTC, the yield is...... (2) Li Xiaolai claims that he is the first person in China to hold bitcoin, holding six digit bitcoin (no video link found.)
3) after the founder of the silk road was arrested, his 140000 bitcoin was seized by the FBI [2]
therefore, the people who have the most bitcoin should hold more than 1% of the world's total. This can be seen from the daily BTC holdings list
more systematic research comes from academia. The Israeli mathematician ADI Shamir (if the name is unfamiliar, he is the s in RSA algorithm) published a paper "quantitative analysis of the full bitcoin
transaction graph" in 2012, which analyzed the transaction records of the first 18000 blocks in the special currency system (as of May 13, 2012), This paper studies some interesting problems in bitcoin market
in their analysis results, at the end of the first 18000 blocks of chain, the entities with the most bitcoin holdings range from 200000 to 400000 BTC (the article does not give specific figures), and only one entity with more than 200000 bitcoin holdings. In history, the largest amount of money held was more than 500000 BTC, with two entities
note that "entity" is used instead of "person". In the analysis method of this paper, bitcoin wallets that may belong to the same owner are classified as the same entity. This entity may not only be a person, but also be a trading organization such as Mt. GOx
in addition, by analyzing the table of the most active entities given in the article, the income of the people with the most income (excluding expenses) is below 700000 BTC. In other words, the person who owns the most bitcoin will not hold more than 700000 BTC