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Economy => Speculation => Topic started by: chessnut on January 26, 2014, 12:18:15 AM



Title: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: chessnut on January 26, 2014, 12:18:15 AM
I came across a link to a web page a while ago that gave the statistics of those who own bitcoin. For example, approx 80,000 people owned between 1-10 bitcoin. only 500,000 own between .1-1 bitcoin etc...
does anybody know where I can find this link again? or a link with the same info?
thanks for the help,



Title: Re: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: notme on January 26, 2014, 12:23:08 AM
You don't know how many addresses I split my bitcoins across, so any such statistics are very rough estimates.


Title: Re: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: chessnut on January 26, 2014, 12:43:55 AM
You don't know how many addresses I split my bitcoins across, so any such statistics are very rough estimates.

ok but it still give us an idea of the maximum, which is still very useful.


Title: Re: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: Peter R on January 26, 2014, 12:44:04 AM
All the news about the bitcoin wealth distributions, believe it or not, came from Risto's "estimates" on this thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316297

I wrote a bit about how first the media and later even university professors ran away with this story as though it was "fact" here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=420005.msg4607530#msg4607530


Title: Re: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: BitcoinAshley on January 26, 2014, 01:50:35 AM
Lol. Oh, Reptilia.  ;D


Title: Re: Wealth Distribution.
Post by: wobber on January 26, 2014, 10:33:57 AM
The problem is that on that website granularity is very bad... I'd like to see more granularity options. Then, we all could make a more in-depth view of btc distribution.