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A brief look at bitcoin wallet statistics

The bitcoin wallet space has been infused with hundreds of millions of venture capital dollars creating a very competitive space alongside bitcoin exchanges, where there is certainly some overlap between the two creating “hybrid” services. Well known startups for example are Coinbase and Circle, both in the U.S. who are both wallets and exchanges/brokers (buying and selling of bitcoins).

http://bitcoinx.io/news/articles/a-brief-look-at-bitcoin-wallet-statistics/

Same article was posted about a week back already https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1217425.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1217425.0)

This tells a lot about security practices of Bitcoin users. Two leading wallets are online wallets with almost 9M wallets combined.

It's amazing how people let other people save their money even when they have opportunity to do this on their own and actually be even safer. I mean Bitcoin gave them this opportunity but they are not using it.

yes, most people will always use exchanges as their banks. you cant change that and that is probably more secure than storing it on your computer (it is only more secure if you choose the right exchange like Xapo Vault).

most people dont even understand the basics of computer security, they should not store the coins on their pc and everything else is too complicated. sad but true.

That's scary isn't it?
And banks know that! This is what makes a bit of afraid that a bank coin will have kind of success beside Bitcoin or other decentralized cryptos.People are just too lazy and it feels comfortable for them to hand "the risk" of saving their money to another party.And of course this other other will abuse that.
This is so stupid!

totally agree with you man, seems like people or just don't care about his money or just will never learn, bitcoin offers them the opportunity to keep his money on his own hands and not on banks etc etc, and continues to behave like with fiat money, is just awesome.

people will never learn, maybe is just that they dont care about his money, i cant understand it.

It's uncool but inevitable. Most people will be inclined to trust professionals over themselves even when they're leaving themselves wide open with online wallets. Something trezor esque hard wired into your phone, tablet or computer is likely to convince them to leave that behind.