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Are there any suggestions as to how many individual people are approximately using Bitcoin / have used Bitcoin in total?

This is really interesting in my opinion. :)

How many people have tried this beautiful piece of technology at their own fingertips?

I wonder also. I haven't seen anything recently about the number of users. Or anything that was done in a scientific way. As a question its quite problematic. You can count wallets, nodes, Tx, block volume, tweets, online searches, etc. But all will end in a statistical guess because all the data are just corollary.

I think it's agreed that bitcoin continues to still grow. But.. ???

EDIT: Perhaps the network hash rate is a better measure than users? It is a at least a number and not an opinion or interpretation. And if bitcoin is just a protocol then this measure of it's strength must mean something. You can see it graphed in the link below, which also has other relate graphs. 

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

I've seen a couple of other threads with a similar question, it is something that a lot of us would like to know. 

How you would determine unique users is something that appears to be a stumbling block, a wallet address is no good and even this forum not every user would have come here and even then you can have multiple usernames, it will be interesting to see if someone figures out a way this can be done.

Is it possible to tell how many wallets are out there?
That would not tell us how many people use bitcoins out there, but it would give an upper limit (I don't think that two people share one wallet).
And if we would have the number of wallets an everage person owns, then we could combine those two informations and come to a reasonable number of bitcoin users.

every day bitcoin users always be increase and i think very difficult to find accurate data regarding your questions but if any someone else can give to us these data with at least for 90% accurate this is could be an interesting because i was wondering same questions too

interesting to talk about bitcoin statistic,and its make me wonder too,but so far i never found any concrete data or chart about number of individual people using bitcoin,wish someone post here.

This number is not know as an individual can have access to several different wallets at any given time.
They hold any where from 3-5 different address at any given time, if you are heavily into bitcoin that is.

coinbase alone has:
Users‎: ‎2,800,000 (Nov 2015)

so im guessing alot more then that. but when i talk to people i prefer to use low numbers instead of exaggerating numbers out of thin air. so atleast 2.5mill people are using or have used bitcoin in the last couple years.(to be on the safe side)

According to my own experience most people just heard from Bitcoin but never used or tried it. The technological wall is simply to high for most "normal" people. For that reason, I think that less than 1 million people worldwide did try Bitcoin so far. I hope this will changes in the future.

I think that's gonna be forever impossible to know. It would be a fascinating statistic to a get ahold of.

I've wondered that many times, always getting to the conclusion that it's impossible to know. I don't know how many addresses I'm having right now, and I forgot how many wallets I've had trying different client over the years. So the answer cannot be found in the blockchain, and you can't find it by adding the number of customers of all exchanges: I have an account at 3 different exchanges!

This is good, no doubt about it. Sadly, the guy is from Lithuania. Hardly a leading European country. The effect would be 100 times greater if he was German, but maybe some colleagues from larger countries were listening. Maybe...

yeah i doubt that there will be any ways to check how much people are using bitcoins because some might use over a hundred wallets and some might just have one single wallet

it would be really interesting to know the statistics but i think that there would be less people than we actually expect because most users are just same ones not only in wallets but on this forum too

This chart is pretty indicative!
https://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

I think that maybe 10% of the users are alt accounts of existing users, but that is actually a really interesting graph and it does kind of put a small portion of the people that use Bitcoin into perspective.

I wish that more sites would publish data like this, so we could get a better idea of how big Bitcoin really is.

More than a million people, just to be on the safe side.

There is no exact data because most bitcoin users prefer to remain anonymous.Does it really make any difference whether we know the number of users or not?I think it doesn't

It really doesn't matter but I think that the users who are on this forum are only using and holding bitcoin rest of the world is still not aware about the bitcoin yet.

I think we need to do a survey to know how many individuals people are using bitcoin
But we need to add more question in that survey, Who earned a lot of money, Who earned in betting, mining, trading?

This would be great to know and I have wondered this myself.  Very difficult to know with all of the different wallets individuals have.   I think the number is still quite small.  I know people into tech that do not know of bitcoin or simply dismiss it.

of course all people will wonder about that number,but so far i can't find official stats,this  is might because bitcoin is decentralized,so we can count number of people using bitcoin.

I also wonder the same things, I am sure there are a lot of people using it, and it will increase in every second, and hopefully we can become the biggest community ever

i've seen a topic questioning about how much address which have bitcoin less than 100 satoshi,this one really useless if you're questioning here, a research never be done, the real quantity will never can be revealed

It is difficult to predict the exact number of individual using bitcoin but I am sure the community is growing at a moment and it will reach to new heights in coming years.

Nothing can count and its impossible to knowing the stats,we just can knowing about stats or transaction or bitcoin ATM stats.
but still possible if some people want to take survey about it.

It's quite hard to know that, because even tho we know how much of the total number of existing bitcoin address. We still can't know who's own each of the adress.

Yeah probably like with other interesting things we probably will never know.

Interesting question! ;D

How can it possible who using bitcoins, but you can see every passing the day bitcoin's number of the people is increasing, so in my eye, most of the people are interested in bitcoin and using it , it shows coming 2 or 3 years bitcoin's number will be increased.

Where is the mathematicians on this forum? Take this total for the USA and work out what % that is of the total population of the USA and then use that as a indicator for the rest of the world. The problem is

North America have a higher adoption than many other countries and most of these other countries have none of these KYC/AML regulations, so most of the users on those services are not authenticated and

basically a duplication of single users. With the pseudonimity of Bitcoin, we will possibly never get a accurate answer to this question.  ???

Yeah that's right we can't get an exact count of individuals  As people use different wallets, may be we can approximate bitcoin users by some factors like bitcoin address, that too is difficult.

we can only get total bitcoin in circulation but not the total number of bitcoin addresses in use so even guessing the number with the total bitcoin addresses generated till now couldn't help us find the exact number of users.

Im also wondering about that thing on how many bitcoin users is online out there.Cause of bitcoin popularity im pretty sure that there are abundant numbers of bitcoin users online around the globe.We can estimate the number of users online but i think we cannot exactly know how many bitcoin users is online.Maybe there is millions of people using bitcoins or more.Thats because of jts popularity

Finding out how many people are using Bitcoin is nearly impossible as there is nothing that can give you an exact number. But then again, what do you consider to be a Bitcoin user? When they use Bitcoin at least once a week? Once a month?

Im also wondering about that thing on how many bitcoin users is online out there.Cause of bitcoin popularity im pretty sure that there are abundant numbers of bitcoin users online around the globe.We can estimate the number of users online but i think we cannot exactly know how many bitcoin users is online.Maybe there is millions of people using bitcoins or more.Thats because of jts popularity