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Special greetings to all bitcoin talker's and happy Sunday. I was scrolling through X today when I came across this post above which the post really got my attention, because of the caption on it, so  I was eager to carry out few research about it if it's true, because i was not expecting just less than 4% of the world population to only own bitcoin, I was expecting to see a more reasonable figure. But Despite the growing hype around bitcoin am still surprise that bitcoin adoption globally is still low and slow. And from the estimated bitcion ownership by continent north America leads the park with 10.7%, while the adoption of bitcoin in africa is still low just 1.6%.
Am now wrapping up with this word of encouragement and advise, that those individuals who have not yet get started with bitcoin it's still early for them, they can get started as soon as possible, because this space offers vast potential for future growth and many more.
 source 1 (https://cryptonews.com.au/news/report-finds-global-bitcoin-ownership-at-4-claims-adoption-just-beginning-127597/)
 source 2 (https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/21969513218498)
 source 3 (https://blockchain.news/flashnews/less-than-4-of-the-world-owns-btc-trading-implications-for-adoption-liquidity-and-volatility)

No body here needs a sooth sayer to know how advantageous it can be to invest in bitcoin. Those who missed out to invest at the early stage of bitcoin still have the opportunity to do so now. No time is too late, the value of bitcoin will keep on appreciating, though it is volatile in nature but if you hodl you will definitely benefit from your investment on the long run.

Wrapping up is correct.
raping up is a crime.

and 4% of 8 billion is 320 million

only 20 million coins are mined

at least 2 million are lost.

thus 18 million coins are owned by 320 million people

or 18/320= 0.0563 btc for the owners on average

So your goal as an owner should be to own at least 0.1 coins

am not really cool with the bold words on your comment above, because they are word of discouragement, and am putting it to you that nobody is too late to start accumulating bitcoin, provided they accumulating it to hold for long term 4 to 10 years or longer and not short term. Normally there are no doubt that those OGs who first bought bitcoin at early stage when the bitcoin project was first launched are in good advantage. But that's doesn't mean that we who are just getting started and have not accumulated enough should give up and start saying that we are too late, because we are not providing we are committed and consistence in accumulating bitcoin until will accumulate a good portion of it and then hold for long term.

I think it's considerably less than 4% if we only take into account bitcoin ownership through personal keys. Not through a bitcoin ETF or any other vehicle for exposure to bitcoin. I've looked at the tweet, but it doesn't clarify anything else. I suppose it's a statistic, which, like all statistics, has a margin of error, but this aspect is not clarified.


Congratulations on your new Sr. Member rank (in advance, you only need 2 more activity).

I am not surprised at all. btc and decentralization achieved are two concepts that are not easy to be understood.
Even 4% it's an huge amount of people if you consider how few people are able to invest money or just saving it!
I think that this percentage could grow just a little in the next few years. Most of people will embrace bitcoin "inside" other products or maybe directly in their Nations.

Less than 4%, but that is still a lot of people. Okay, but when we see the +8 billion people in the world, than it is not much. Some of these people will never have the chance to own Bitcoin because they dont have a bank account or internet access. If you compare this with gold, then maybe +40-50% own gold, which is 10 times more than Bitcoin. In some countries, it is easier to own gold because they can mine it themselves and not need access to the internet. So if every second person owns gold and in the future only the half of them will chance it to bitcoin, then that would be a big change.

For you.
This article says something different by giving a number of only 1.29% of the world population owns bitcoins. It is only an estimation.

How many people own crypto in the world? (https://coinledger.io/research/how-many-people-own-crypto-in-the-world)

How do they get that number?
Let's see

For more details you can read that article.

4% is not a bad figure though, and implies that we are still in the early stages of Bitcoin. Imagine how big the price tag will be if this goes to, say, 40%, and how fortunate we were to know about Bitcoin as early as possible.

Keep HODLing..!

Remember that bitcoin has not gotten global adoption and there are many countries that doesn't even own a single bitcoin. The world population is large and i can tell you that 4% of the world population is large and even having up to 4% of those that owns bitcoins shows that bitcoin's adoption is growing among individuals and countries. Considering how bitcoin was introduced in 2009, it is a success to know that almost 4% are holding so with time the adoption will grow higher and we will reach the era of massive adoption as we are hoping. You should understand that despite the growth of bitcoin over the years, many are still in doubt and are even waiting for more global recognition before they can invest in it but do we even need to worry about who buys bitcoin and who do not buy? i don't think it's necessary, the impressive thing now is that we are have been able to identify bitcoin and believe in it's future growths which means that if we hold for a long term we will reap the higher dividends that will be gotten from our investment in the digital currency.

The information you saw on Twitter that you posted here that less than 4% of people in the world owns Bitcoin is very true, a lot of people in the world has not started investing in Bitcoin even with the level of popularity that bitcoin have gain and the reason why you are thinking that it should be more than that is because you are investing in Bitcoin and you are around people who are also investing in Bitcoin being in this forum will make you feel that the world are investing in Bitcoin not knowing that it is just few% of people that are investing in Bitcoin.
This is a sign that Bitcoin will become more big in the future because I'm very sure that more people will invest in Bitcoin in the future, just imagine that in the future 50% of the world population or even 30% of the world population start investing in Bitcoin I believe bitcoin will get to $2 million if that happens.
Those who know about bitcoin now are still very lucky and should take this advantage to accumulate as much as.

Owning 4% of BTC may seem like a small amount to some however for a 16 year old financial system, it is huge, right? Theres no other example of a financial system starting from zero value achieving such a feat in just 16 years. As the price of Bitcoin rises, millions of people are already waking up &  moving towards mass adoption.

I really like philipma1957’s figure. But the average lie is that whales, exchanges &  institutions hoard, so most people have to think about owning fraction, holding a full 1 Bitcoin is now beyond the reach of most people. That is why targeting 0.1 BTC as a personal goal is a smart, realistic flexibility

In fact, I would say that sitting behind the hype or the math will not help, unless you start quietly staking now, it will be impossible to even acquire 0.1 Bitcoin in the future. Bitcoins adoption curve is just beginning &   we are on the journey towards 1 million.

It’s hard to believe these are accurate numbers. We know that there should always be allowances because not everyone will be honest about their ownership of crypto. Most likely there are people who would hide that fact just to protect themselves.
I honestly believe there could be more people who hold bitcoin but I agree that those who are not holding yet should consider doing so. Those who have been holding bitcoin is a testament to how beneficial it can be

Most Articles like this usually clarifies the information or data by saying it’s an estimate and seriously this estimates has a large Margin gap between it and a real number, the data is drawn from the available number of bitcoin on addresses, since addresses are actually public you can see them and it has nothing to do with decentralization or privacy. The major problem though is actually the fact that multiple wallet addresses can be owned by one person.

The HD wallet itself allows many or multiple addresses to be accessed by one master private key and a user can actually holds bitcoin on many of the addresses and this addresses might be calculated during research for one person. So Ideally I think the number of holders should even be less than this estimate. But regardless this is an eye opener to people that even now is still early for bitcoin.


Is Satoshi personal bitcoin holding of averagely 1 million bitcoin also added to the 2 million bitcoin lost, even though it is not technically suitable to call it lost since it is still on a spendable address but for this discussion should be in that category

Not necessarily, 4% is still a great number (320 million people as @philipma1957 mentioned), so even though it might appear that we're in early stages, it's still a great number of people. Keep in mind that there isn't a "goal" to reach 100% or anything remotely close, I'm personally speculating that even 10% sounds a lot and may be unachievable, even in the long-term. The more time passes, the harder it's going to be for someone to be involved in Bitcoin, although we might soon enter the bear market and notice a major crash in value in the next 1-3 years, which might introduce new investors, but may also discourage others.

As @philipma1957 also mentioned, kudos to her for her quick calculations, if you have more than 0.0563 BTC, then you have more than the global average. 0.10 is currently a decent amount of money, but I'll go ahead and claim that anyone with over 0.20 BTC is likely to yield great results in the upcoming 5 years.

I would say that he is not wrong for saying that it's not really early, but you could say that it's not too late, these are two different things when put in context.

The things he said are correct, because those who bought at the early stage managed to gain wealth through it, wealth that no one could ever imagined can be earned from the internet, or at least not by buying or mining and then holding a coin that doesn't have a physical existence, and didn't even have any name at that time.

Those of us who buy right now, even if we will only be among the 5% of world's population to do it first, we will still not be able to get that good results from our investments, but as the guy said, it's still better than other investment assets or options out there, so we still do it and we know that it is at least going to give us good profits in a decade or so.

I usually have a hard time understanding how this type of data are gotten because there are many people who still store their Bitcoin in centralised exchanges. These Bitcoin will be regarded belonging to the exchange and they will not be added according to the number of people that own them. Of we add those Bitcoin ownership that are in CEX, ot will be obvious that more than 4% of the world's population have Bitcoin.

I don't know how accurate this may be, but I know that if we could get up to this within just 16 years of bitcoin existence since its introduction, shows that we can get more better than this as the time goes by, anything is possible with bitcoin and the more we go the more people gets convinced about it's adoption and they join the more to increase on it's uses, this shows how bitcoin has been relevant and will still continue to increase in value and acceptability from the people, because there is more understanding of this currency than ever before.

It might sound like a joke to you but bitcoin is miracle God has presented to all men who are willing to grab the opportunity. Believe me bitcoin will be worth 10x its value or more in the nearest future, just like gold it will keep appreciating.

Soon you will know the importance of even owning 10 Satoshi not to talk of a bitcoin itself.

That is great point that shows true situation for cryptocurrency despite all talk few people around world actually own Bitcoin. Your surprise that less than 4% of world owns it is reasonable but it highlights that this digital money change is just starting. Numbers also show that adoption is very unequal with North America at 10.7\% and Africa at only 1.6\%. You are right to encourage people. When so few people own Bitcoin it means there is huge chance for future growth. Because current adoption rate is so low it is still early for anyone who wants to start investing.

Well, bitcoin sure still has a long way to go in terms of growth in both price and adoption, this is one reason why I've remained extremely hopeful for the future, seems to me that we haven't actually seen the best of bitcoin yet, what we all seem to have seen so far is more like a scratch on the surface, something much more bigger than any thing we have previously seen is still very much on the way.

The US president's son, in that person of Erick Trump made a public prediction of the price he expects bitcoin to reach in the very near future, and he said bitcoin at $1m per coin is not very far away, it is obviously certain that he knows something so many of us may not know..

So, to you who is feeling it's already too late to invest in bitcoin, happy to also join in announcing that we all are still relatively early, because the party isn't even getting started yet, the DJ Is still setting up his instruments 😁

The infographic goes to show that we're still so... early yet some people are so depressed that they are not early enough. By the time the world adoption rate increases to arond 20% bitcoin might have been priced at $1m already or even more.
Such an asymmetric bet only comes by once in a century.


Even 1/10 of bitcoin is already good enough. Imagine if BTC reaches $1m. Every satoshi matters, hope people understand this more.
People are too fixated with how much they can own they ignore the ROI potential.

The truth often hurts, and while those statements may seem discouraging, they are the truth and we need to accept reality. Bitcoin is trading at over $100k and has a market cap of over $2 trillion, it is clearly no small coin and we are no longer in the early stages.

It's not too late to invest in bitcoin, but the idea of ​​getting rich quick or getting rich with a small amount of capital is no longer true even if you hold it for the next 50 years, let alone 5 or 10 years.

Bitcoin can't go up by thousands of percent, giving us x100, x1000 profits anymore, let's be realistic.

Only a few countries mentioned here are for the use of Bitcoin, in these few countries only the names of those who are openly using Bitcoin have come up. But there are countless people who are secretly using Bitcoin who have not come out, but yes you can see that the number of Bitcoin users is increasing more than in the past. And the number of Bitcoin users will increase more in the future, because many treasury companies and Bitcoin holdings are seen in abundance at the present time, and the demand for Bitcoin is also increasing.
The more the demand for Bitcoin increases, the more the number of Bitcoin users will also increase. So the further you go into the future, the more Bitcoin users you will find.

Despite seeing so much prosperity of Bitcoin, if we talk based on the acceptance of all the people in the world, then only 4% of people have accepted Bitcoin, which is a small part of the total population, so the potential of Bitcoin is very high. Most people still do not know how to use Bitcoin, and most people are still afraid to use it because they are completely ignorant about its use, setting up a wallet and security. However, the situation is gradually improving. People are slowly learning to use Bitcoin. According to the prospects of the future, those who will use Bitcoin now will definitely benefit the most in the coming days.

Within this 4% of users, some places have more users and some places have very little. It can definitely be said that those who are investing in Bitcoin now are also in the early stages.

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/09/29/UQ9vz3.jpeg

https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-price-down-29-2025-liquidity-surge-us-crypto-stockpile

Its interesting that people in Latin America or Africa tend to hold U.S. dollars to protect themselves from their highly inflationary local fiat currencies. For example, in Venezuela there is strong demand for dollars and USDT tokens. In contrast, people in North America often prefer to hold Bitcoin as a more stable and harder form of money, protecting themselves from the dollar, which experiences about 7–10 years of continuous inflation.

People in North America are generally much more financially literate, so Bitcoin is more popular there, while in many other regions people still don’t fully understand what Bitcoin is. They often confuse it with various “shitcoins,” pump-and-dump schemes, and other scams.

We are still at the very beginning. Most people have heard of Bitcoin, but don’t really understand it. Over time, more and more people will grasp. I believe the biggest wave of adoption will come after the 2032 halving, when Bitcoin surpasses one million dollars at that point, many people will finally realize what Bitcoin truly is.

To be fair, are we still too early or is the demand for bitcoin in the world not as big as we imagine? Not many people really need privacy and freedom as we think. It's hard to know which is right.

But either way, I don't think we're too early, we're not in the early stages of adoption anymore.
And I don't expect the whole world to adopt and need bitcoin, because the world is very colorful and everyone has different tastes and needs.


1/10 bitcoin, which is 0.1 BTC, and if bitcoin hits $1 million, that means we'll have $100k. $100k is a big amount of money today, but I don't think it will still be considered a big amount of money in 20 years if the USD continues to depreciate more severely in the future.

Therefore, to improve our lives and become wealthy, we need more income and assets, rather than just waiting for Bitcoin to make us rich.

Joining earlier than the others is good advantage but it's not enough. Earlier investors in this market bought bitcoin earlier than the others who will only join this market in future years so that they have great price advantage with cheaper entries. However, the more important contributor to make their investment success different than the late comers is how long they can hold their bitcoins.

Buying earlier, and holding their coins long enough even after entries of late comers, earlier investors can get very good profit. Most of Bitcoin holding days are profitable days, but if you can hold more days, you can get better profit according to data as follows.

https://hodl.camp/
https://charts.bitbo.io/profitable-days/
https://www.bitcoinmagazinepro.com/charts/bitcoin-profitable-days/

This is actually a great question which I didn't consider myself either. We certainly cannot be sure whether this data is accurate, although from my perspective it seems like a plausible scenario. The OP has quoted a few sources which claim they've been collected from Crypto.com and the Nakamoto (I'm not familiar with the latter). Does that mean they've been collected through centralised exchanges? Because if so, the actual number is then certainly higher than 4%. I'm also guessing that they're seeing it from the total addresses that hold Bitcoin, there's no accurate way of knowing such a number.

I think the early stages are already behind for Bitcoin. Now that it has surpassed $100k and countries are considering creating their own Bitcoin reserves, this is already the stage of establishment, and those who don’t have Bitcoin now will think it’s already too late because it has become too expensive. And when you tell people that Bitcoin can be bought in parts, it rarely convinces anyone, because in the end they still look at the current price of Bitcoin.

Right now, Bitcoin is becoming an investment asset that has attracted the attention of big players, this is already a completely different level, while retail is now more fascinated by altcoins, because they believe in the altseason. And I think this trend will continue in the future.

It won't give such x's, but it's still the stablest and greatest coin, performance-wise too (even though, of course, it doesn't pump like a meme or so).

Surely, the early stage of BTC can be said to be gone, but we need to act with what we have at hands.

If others are going to see this, it's a good goal for them trying to reach before the price of Bitcoin reaches to the top. Having 0.0563 BTC or 0.1 BTC, it's already a lot today.

But, if they're going to think of how long term investing is in bitcoin. They'd understand how encouraging the scarcity of it.

So, to those who own 0.1 BTC and above, you're now bitcoin rich. While others might not agree to that, but believe it you are.

It's not something that happens over a day..

Not many people are able to put so many funds or trust in BTC from the get-go, and they should learn before they go forward..

Eventually, people with the right knowledge and discipline will reach their goals, be it 0,1 BTC or more.

Or it could be 96% of the world are poor/low middle class people.

Just like this in statistic, 68% of people only have <$10K, 22% of people have $10K-$100K. Average people place Bitcoin as their last investment because it's high risk, they will prioritize lower risk investment.

Even these 96% of people invest in Bitcoin, I think it won't really drive Bitcoin significant, probably the price will double or triple from the present. Not 25x from the current price.

https://imgvb.com/images/2025/09/29/b097b55d5170e54413ef588bad4304af.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

Thinking like that? That's how you stay poor.

Sure, those who bought Bitcoin super early made a killing. They were visionaries and got lucky.

But obsessing over Bitcoin's past and wishing you'd bought it at $20? That's just feeling sorry for yourself, not being smart about money. What others made then doesn't matter to you now. The point is, even now, a well-known asset like Bitcoin could still give you a 5x or 10x return in the next ten years.

And if you don't think a 10x return is a ton of money, then your expectations are way too high.

US is planning to buy 1.000.000 BTC for it's strategic reserve. Other contries are accumulating as well. When the accumulation will end, I can imagine the price will be driven to 1 Million USD per Bitcoin, with a lot of printed $.

0.1 BTC to have is very nice, I would say even 0.01 is a good amount, it will only grow.

There is no official information that the US is planning to buy 1 million BTC as a reserve. This is just the idea that Senator Cynthia Lummis raised at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, in July 2024.

To date, no country has officially had bitcoin reserves and is actively accumulating bitcoins. All is just rumor or is under discussion and waiting for National Assembly approval.

Also, if countries plan to buy bitcoin as reserves. They will need to use sources of funds such as borrowing, issuing government bonds or selling other reserve assets to buy bitcoin. They won't print money indiscriminately just to buy bitcoins because that will cause inflation. So this is going to be a long process.

Check this link, it is not just rumours and speculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Strategic_Bitcoin_Reserve#:~:text=A%20strategic%20reserve%20is%20a,establish%20a%20strategic%20bitcoin%20reserve. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Strategic_Bitcoin_Reserve#:~:text=A%20strategic%20reserve%20is%20a,establish%20a%20strategic%20bitcoin%20reserve.)

With the figure am seeing right now I won't say otherwise but to stand on the existing protocol, if this is the exact figure of the  world population who owns bitcoin, then bitcoin adoption is still slow and still early. Although others may see this figure as a good one from the mathematics that has been done so far, but for it not, let's take a look at how far bitcoin have gone, people talk about bitcoin both offline and online yet less than 4 percent of the world population owns bitcoin, not good at all I expected to see more than that  at least 10 percent will be preferable.

Well said.

It's because that many of the early buyers probably have sold their Bitcoins when it has reached x5 to x10. And that's why even with the early advantage that they have, it's unknown on how many of them were able to keep most of their bitcoins.

But it's greater if these early holders have managed to hold their bitcoins and didn't move an inch when the all time highs have appeared. That's why I understand those billions worth of bitcoin that have suddenly awake for this bull run if most of them were sold.

That means people out there still have a chance to accumulate Bitcoin. It will not be a problem if they can not have more than 10 BTC or more because having 1 Bitcoin from accumulating will be worth doing. That will be valued much in the future especially if Bitcoin increases to more than $500k or $1 million. It is still early for those who realize the benefit of Bitcoin to them so they can start right now to invest in Bitcoin. The best is that they have the best way to accumulate Bitcoin continuously using DCA methods. Many people benefit from using this way so they can follow the same thing.

You remind me of Warren Buffett's legendary quote, And this can also be applied to the cryptocurrency market.

Yes, getting in early is considered a big advantage but it is not the only or the key factor that determines our success. Success in investing is not about getting in early or late but is determined by knowledge, patience and discipline...And the rewards are only for those who deserve it, and only those investors who are knowledgeable enough, patient enough and stay in the market for a long time. It is not for the impatient, get rich quick mindset (gambling) .

pretty sure a lot of the ogs just went back to bitcoin after they had sold some since they have seen the ups and downs of bitcoin and got many opportunities to buy again even at a cheaper price well at least i would hope that that’s what most of them did because if i sold bitcoin at a cheaper price and i just watched it rise in value, i’ll regret it a lot

I agree that it's not going to be easy for the majority who still don't own any bitcoin. But it's about the action that they are going to do. It's not about getting instant to that amount of Bitcoin.

It's about how they are going to accumulate it in due time because the price is just getting more expensive from every cycle.

I couldn't agree more. Even owning 0.01 BTC is better than nothing and it's going to be like how 0.1 BTC is valued today and even more.

I think you are lost your way, let me give you some motivation.

Bitcoin has proven its ability to maintain value, especially when held long-term, and I think that is one of the reasons why companies, institutions or countries are starting to adopt it. Bitcoin has many advantages; its scarcity, supported by halving events, its borderlessness, and its ease of unrestricted transactions anywhere in the world. I am sure there are many more benefits to Bitcoin, but I will focus on just a few.

Besides that, every time Bitcoin increases, especially to a significant value, there will always be people who say "it is late" or "it is too late", I am sure they will say that even when Bitcoin increases tenfold from its current price, and it will be something like;   Bitcoin price $100 = "Late"   Bitcoin price $1000 = "Too Late"   Bitcoin price $10k = "Very late"   Bitcoin price $100k = "Finally too late"   Bitcoin price $1M = " ??? "

By the way, a few months ago, my parents sold all the gold they had saved up or they held in long term, and they ended up with about $60,000. I think if my parents had saved in Bitcoin instead of gold, I am sure it would be much more than $60,000, maybe even at least $300,000. So, I want to ask you a few questions: Do you think gold isn't owned by many large corporations? Can't even a small number of gold buyers profit?. I hope you will find the answer after some careful consideration, and I hope you understand the meaning of my questions.

Well, my advice to you is, you should consider that it is never too late to invest in Bitcoin. All you need to do is try to earn income wherever you can, then set aside some of it for savings, and invest it in Bitcoin. If you do, trust me, you will be very grateful in the future.

4% corresponds to a considerable number of people. Here in my country, only 5,4 million individuals invest in variable income category of investment, corresponding to more or less 2,5% of the country's population. Proportionally thinking on global levels, Bitcoin is almost two times more popular than variable income in my country.

Considering Bitcoin is decentralized and an outsider compared to mainstream investments (like variable income), it's quite popular already.

The point is that people in general aren't used to invest money, so don't expect that percentage to increase a lot any time soon.

If you feel regretful for selling your bitcoins cheaply and are not satisfied with what you have achieved. You will probably regret it for the rest of your life even if you sell it for $1 million or $10 million because the price will continue to increase over time.

The future is unpredictable and the opposite can happen too, so set clear goals and be happy with what you have achieved. Don't be too greedy because sometimes you will pay a high price. Also, as long as the market is still there will be no shortage of opportunities for us, so there is no need to feel regret if you sell at a lower price.

This same question just ran through my mind as well. So this means that the knowledge of Bitcoin has not being spread as far as we all expected. Bitcoin would get to a point that it can no longer be purchased and the price would rise like a fountain, this is an assured possibility given the statistics and people who invested in it would be happy they did.

Bitcoin investment is never a waste of time or money.
Success doesn't come easy, but through perseverance and consistency.

Keep hodling because the future is bright. I can't imagine when 40% of the world has Bitcoin, that will be a whole fortune for us who start to hodl Bitcoin when 4% of the world has it as a store of value.

Whenever that time comes(40% of the world hodling Bitcoin), we will talk about being the OG's that hodl Bitcoin at its early stage

It's quite a surprising figure, considering the large rate of awareness of crypto currency especially bitcoin, but this shows that bitcoin is still in its early phase at $113k !! It's so fascinating, As a matter of fact this also surprisingly proves that there is still a large number of individuals that are still yet to know about bitcoin, according to research awareness of bitcoin is majorly in the age range of 25 - 44 years and also majority of them are males. Although most of them are aware but stìll lack understanding of the coin, so the figure could be accurate.

Everyone who gets in from this point is still early. Before when it's down to $3k, they think that it won't recover and it's too late for them. But when it has reached $100k, they all have thought that even going with the former ATH on 2021 which was $69k is a good entry point. And so, think of the next cycle if they enter now or by next year when the price is likely to reach a new high by the next cycle. Though we can't validate on how much it will be and how many multipliers we'll get by that time. As time passes by, the multiplier becomes lower and so if it goes by 2x, it's already a win at $200k or $250k if it goes 1.5x.

Who would have taught that out of the 8 billion people in the world it's only 4% of people around the world that knows about Bitcoin, could it be that there are still countries that doesn't know about Bitcoin? Bitcoin has gone viral globally and it's surprising to see that it's not a lot of people that have Bitcoin in their possession, thinking about it now it was quite easy and less expensive for people to buy Bitcoin but they hesitated and there's still time to purchase it now because many people are coming on board now and in the next decade it might not be as easy as it is now to purchase Bitcoin.

To reach fiat equilibrium there are another 2-3 orders of magnitude here, so there is a reasonable chance it is still early.  People were saying the same thing, e.g. "we're late" back in 2011 and 2013 etc.  At dollar parity back in 2011 there were plenty of people saying that the big gains were gone and they had to accept it.  And so people missed out on still huge gains. 

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Africa is less technologically advanced than the others owing to their little percentage, secondly most people in African don't practice self-custody, they buy and hold on exchanges which does not count towards true ownership on bitcoin. I believe with time proper knowledge would spread and more people may want to hold bitcoin rightly because bitcoin in the possession of a custodian doesn't count in proper adoption.

Well, that's going to be a good thing. I am curious about how they knew because many people don't want to say they own Bitcoin because of their privacy and security. So maybe the results are not that accurate.

Is there also a factor where they keep it in a cold wallet, or is it generally on the exchange or something? That would be interesting data as well.

This shouldn't be something surprising to people because bitcoin is still relatively new in the digital market, unlike stock, forex etc that have been in existence long time ago before the creation of bitcoin.
Bitcoin is gradually growing in adoption, and it will come to a time when bitcoin will gain wide spread adoption and interest and eventually the number of holders will definitely increase.

I believe with time the number of people that will hold bitcoin will surpass the number of people holding other digital assets, because when we look at the amount of profit that bitcoin has made for it's investors within the short period of time bitcoin has been in the digital market, no other digital asset including stock has made such profit.

Only time will tell, because surely bitcoin will one day be recognized by the whole world and by then almost everyone will like to have bitcoin.

Well, we've been through the same experience of selling too early. Despite that we've bought at a cheaper price, we have sold some too early too.

But don't think of it as something regretable forever. Because if by the time that you've sold bitcoins too early and you have spent it wisely and it went to a beautiful purpose and cause, that has helped you.

Although it is hard to remove that thought of regretting that you should have more by just holding but that's life, so move on and accumulate again.

This data shows us two opposite things.
1.There's still plenty of room for growth.
2.More than 15 years after it's creation, Bitcoin still can't become fully mainstream and the BTC adoption is still slow.
There are several factors, which stop mass BTC adoption.
1.Price volatility. This is what stops many businesses owners from accepting BTC payments.
2.Regulatory uncertainty. This issues has been solved in the USA, but such uncertainty remains in most parts of the world.
3.The BTC blockchain cannot handle billions of every day transactions(the so called scaling debate).
4.All the negative talk about Bitcoin being "used by criminals and terrorists".
5.All the FUD propaganda about Bitcoin being a bubble or ponzi scheme, which will collapse tomorrow or next week, next month or next year.
The FUD and the negative talk will never end and we can't do anything to stop it from spreading.

Bitcoin is only about 16 years old. It's still a minor in most countries if it were a human, so if a person starts investing in bitcoin today till bitcoin gets to 50 years, that's over 30 years of investing in bitcoin. With that, is it not safe to say this is still in the early stages?
There are different stages of early. You can't compare yourself with the first set of investors. Big corporations will always have more than average individuals, even if they all invested at the same time. So it's fruitless looking at it from that point of view.
You said the real bitcoin OGs made a fortune; that's true, but they didn't make that fortune just like that, they held their bitcoin for a long time, so if you also want to make a fortune, you need to hold for a long time as well.

As far as I know, the scaling debate would be resolved with LN.

All the rest - well, we really can't beat the FUD if the people in question don't want to look at a broader picture themselves.

BTC is the future and they will understand that eventually.

i have my doubt about what OP said, how can we have the accurate numbers of people around the world that owns bitcoin? saying it is only 4% sounds ridiculous unless there is a way to start counting every single btc wallets that are holding bitcoin, if this is not happening then i will never believe such claims, it could be more than 4% already, this is not a voting about to happen in a country, even the presidency elections are always full of incomplete counting of votes.

And not every wallet would be a new person, that wouldn't be the thing easy to calculate.. All the data would be only close to reality.

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point of correction the OP didn't say that only 4% of the world population owns bitcoin and the OP didn't know how they came about that. and if you truly read through the content of the thread you noticed that even the OP was also suprise to see only that figure 4%. So the OP quickly carried out some few research if it's really true that only 4% of the world population owns bitcoin and all the results came out to be true, and the OP created a thread with those information he got to pass an information and quoted those sources on that his post, so that those users who are good in research can do their own research to verify if true that only 4% of the world population owns bitcoin. So just do me a favour by saying things correctly next time.

I think we have to consider individuals holding Bitcoin through personal keys, the percentage of global ownership might indeed be lower than 4%. This method requires technical knowledge and involves managing one's own wallet.

Estimating the exact percentage of global Bitcoin ownership is challenging due to the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency. However, Don Pedro Dinero's point about personal key ownership is crucial.

And still on th other hand, Bitcoin ETFs and other investment vehicles have made it easier for people to gain exposure to Bitcoin without directly holding the cryptocurrency. This has led to increased institutional investment and adoption.