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I know Satoshi is claimed to possess 1.1 million BTC (which would be an insane amount)

But who are the other really large holders and how much do they own? Roger Ver? Gavin Andresen?
I remember someone claiming that Ver owns about 300.000 BTC, is there any place where this is confirmed?

I have checked http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com (http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com) but they only show adresses and we cant know with certainty which of those are connected.


Are there any confirmed large holders, who openly talk about the amount they possess?

As you said , you can't get them connected to each other and most of the time people use different addresses to hold multiple amounts of bitcoins so you can't be sure how much they actually own .
Also , most of the time those big addresses are owned by companies and exchanges and not by individuals , so I'd say it's something like this :

1. Satoshi Nakamoto (If he didn't lose his private keys)
2. Mark Karpeles (If he really did the Mtgox scenario)
3. Roger Ver (If he actually owns amount you mentioned) .

As you can see I made in bold "if" because we can never be sure unless they admit that they own those amounts , and for what comes to Gavin , I don't think he holds that much . I'd he probably have less then 100 BTC .

It's impossible to know exactly. Who would brag that he's bitcoin rich? He'd put himself in danger. He would become a target for many scammers and thieves.
Those who say that are whales/bitcoin rich, probably lie for some obvious reasons.

Yes I forgot Karpeles.

I guess it's quite possible that he has set aside a nice stash after all those years betraying his customers.

The richest guy with bitcoin is Satoshi who is known to have more than a million BTC. Other than that Nick szabo, and the guy from anarkapulco should be the ones with the biggest amounts of bitcoin.

What, never heard of 'the guy from anarkapulco' - I'll check it out.

What makes you think Szabo is a large holder? To me it seems he is more concerned with intellectual exercises than speculation, he probably invests as safe as possible.

i know all accounts!

http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com/top100





.....but no names  :P

Unless they confirm, you can just speculate. I believe the twins have around 100.000 BTC and Gavin Andresen around 40.000 BTC from early mining, but this I read here in the past so it can be way off, though the numbers seems reasonable.

Well, Ver is known to be one of the richest Bitcoin users and he seems to be doing fine.

True, the Winklevii claimed a couple years back to have acquired 1% of all Bitcoins if I remember correctly.
Pretty awesome.

Thats the beauty of bitcoin, We wont ever know who are the biggest holders.

Why do you care?
Also you can't decide that on the rich lists. Because when I buy bitcoin I'm splitting them into 1 BTC blocks so no one can track my fortune like that.
So you can't know who's richest.

Im splitting up my whole half a bitcoin into 100 seperate wallets to really mess things up ;)

In a documentary "The Bitcoin Gospel" with Roger Ver as one of the main characters he said that he bought in early 2011 his first bitcoins worth $25000 at that time and then continued accumulating.So yes he might hold 100k+ bitcoins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg)

Start to watch at 7:00 min where he said it.

I believe another person holding a great amount of Bitcoin is Trace Mayor. He is talking about Bitcoin since it was worth  less than a dollar. He seed funded companies like Bitpay, Armory and Kraken.

Winklevoss bros are known to hold a big chunk of coins as well.Since 2012 I believe.

Erik Vorhees sold SatoshiDice for more than 100k coins back in 2013.So he is bitcoin rich as well I'd guess.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-company-acquisitions-begin-gambling-site-satoshidice-sells-for-11-5m-126315-btc/ (http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-company-acquisitions-begin-gambling-site-satoshidice-sells-for-11-5m-126315-btc/)

The richest person I know that has the most bitcoins is Satoshi Nakamoto 1 million coins.

It's none of our business.

You will never find out, there's just no need to. There's a reason why bitcoin is semi anonymous.
Nobody needs to know how much bitcoins anybody owns.

A Romanian billionaire called Mircea Popescu is rumored to hold a massive stash of Bitcoins, but I couldn't find out exactly how many he has. He paid $20,000 to help OpenBSD and I keep coming across his name on bitcointalk. Someone here must know more about his stash.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/20/openbsd_bailed_out/

I respectuflly disagree.

As an owner of Bitcoins it is of interest to me who the other participants in this market are and what they do. If for instance (a very drastic scenario to illustrate my point) Roger Ver posts that he intends to sell all of his Bitcoins, then the value of my Bitcoins will certainly decline.
As you can see there is a direct causality relationship between all participants in the Bitcoin market.
Therefore knowledge about large owners, the sizes of their holdings as well as their intentions are in fact crucial information for everybody who owns Bitcoins.

I have read about the guy. He seems rather eccentric but has been/ is involved in a couple of interesting ventures.
I doubt he is a 'billionaire' though  :D

And my address is not on this list  :'(

Seriously, why is this mysterious account of Satoshi not listed? I do not know the address but all (including the media who discovered Craig Wright) writing about an account with 1,1 million Bitcoins.

No, and why would they? It's nobody's business to know this. I like to think that Satoshi owns the most and that he/she or that group, whoever that may be, are/is the richest.

We can only know addresses. Most users of course split their holdings between multiple addresses. Satoshi's Bitcoins are presumably all still unspent outputs from mining rewards (50BTC each)

I don't think it's needed for anyone to know. Most people split their bitcoins over different addresses anyway. I don't think we'll every find out.

I am not sure if it is only one single person or a group.
But coinbase should be in the top people/company that have bitcoins.
I will try to find the source as i read it somewhere here in forum.

satoshi is the undoubted nr1 when it comes to owning the most bitcoins. as a second it is either mark karpeles or roger ver. i hope mark karpeles will dump his last coins, if he haven't already. that means a less worry for the people.

Me

amount owned: 0 btc

because ownership does not apply on the blockchain

I thought someone tried to extort Roger Ver one time? Then he posted a bounty for their location name etc and they backed down?

I think exchanges own a huge stack of coins, and i'm not only thinking about Ver here. Just look at btc'e for example and their volume of trades. They
made 12 000 USD in fee's just on btc/usd trade pair today, and it's quite possible they're keeping some profits in bitcoins as well. Day in day out, they
earn from those fee's, to this day that amount they own could be insanely large.

cheers

We should grind up the poorest people in the world to make pet food. It would solve two problems at once. It would end world hunger because they're gone and provide a cheap source of pet food.

Why would anyone be stupid enough to release their net worth?

could be dangerous if someday satoshi drop most of his coins

You can't enjoy all that money when you're getting ass raped in prison :D

its not easy to find who is the highest bitcoin amount holders,but some address will proof that outhere will many ore bitcoin holder who have some many bitcoin on their address,this is i give you some.
Top 100 Richest Bitcoin Addresses :

1    $ 77,058,242.87    169,731.81248748    3Nxwenay9Z8Lc9JBiywExpnEFiLp6Afp8v    
   
check full here : http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com/top100

Curiosity doesn't make it any of your business.

But at the same time we have the right to know who has the most Bitcoin.


Yeah. I also saw that address. Do you know a way to find out who's address it is? I am pretty sure there is no way though.

My best would be that it's one of the big exchanges' cold wallet.
You could make accounts at and send different amounts to all major exchanges and see which one ends up in this address  :D

if i was one of them i never ever tell anybody nor i make any mistakes which can show my privacy because government can do things to you and also kidnappers and other bad things

this is what satoshi did he own insane amount of bitcoins and is living just because no body know him

Have you guys heard of user 'knightmb'? He owned 371,000 BTC at one point and maybe he still does.
If I remember correctly he was hired by people in Bitcoin's early stage to built a Bitcoin prepaid card or something like this for them. Then the project was abandoned and the people who hired him never bothered to check how much bitcoins were actually worth and knightmb convinced them to sell the 371,000BTC to him for $ 5,000.

Cheeky guy

He later claimed to have 'donated' them, but other users were able to disprove this claim.

Unbelievable bro, 371000 btc is very much. knightmb,, I'll remember that name, it will be my motivation to hard work and looking for bitcoin more

I have a list of the richest addresses..

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Why would he drop most of his coins? To put his money in a bank?
As far as I see it he is living like a boss and spending his bitcoins on a daily basis.

Other thing is I am sure by now he has enough $ to be rich even without his BTC.
So no I dont see him cashing all out, EVER.

Look at this address:

https://blockchain.info/address/3Nxwenay9Z8Lc9JBiywExpnEFiLp6Afp8v

What kind of transaction is this?

https://blockchain.info/tx/3092ac842bd5f9abfec840e7404614b2a7ccb6c660a0ed1fd91efcd88727d62b

If im not wrong Satoshi has been missing for years, he didn't using his bitcoins and his bitcoins is still stored inside his wallet ;)
And i don't think we know how rich Satoshi is to begin with, so he could be poor or even living in middle economy :P

I think it is business address probably some cold wallet of an exchange or something like that.

I am surprised that nobody mentioned Hal Finney so far. He and Satoshi were probably first 2 people mining bitcoin. I wonder what happened with all his bitcoins after he died. Family kept or sold it all?

Of course Satoshi is the richest, because he is the one who invented Bitcoin

Most people suspect that his family has sold his former holdings by now. There were rumours that they were the infamous 'bearwhale'.

no because if he is somehow intelligent(and i know he is) he would sell them slowly, if he want to do so at some point

no reason to worry, unless his coins are in someone else hands...

if you want a face connected to one of hose address i know that the Winklevoss twins have a lot of bitcoin, in the rane of 10k-100k

No, you have no right to know who has the most bitcoin, but you do have the right to know what wallet addresses contain Bitcoin, and only because they exist on the public ledger/blockchain.

It's none of our business who has what.

With out the names, this information is useless!!  I do not think anyone should know this information because it just opens these people up to scams and hacking opportunities.  It is insane the extent people will go to try to rip someone off from what is theirs.

Please let everybody decide for themselves what their business is and what not.
As I said before, knowledge about large holders is vital information in any market. I am very interested in who the largest Bitcoin holders are, how much they have and what their intentions are.

Yes it is 'my business' because I own bitcoins and I care about their value. The actions of large owners can have direct effects on the price my Bitcoins and it is thus of high importance to me to know as much as I can.




It shows us the minimum amount that one entity controls in a single address. So obviously the richest Bitcoiners own much more than that, which I find kind of frightening.
I think the largest addresses (those p2SH ones) are cold wallets of exchanges.

Early adopters, gambling site owners, exchanges, investors.. list goes on.  :)

i saw he write a comment this year after 1 year..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1281423.msg13197381#msg13197381

It is not easy to be able to account the rich persons in terms of the coins they have. I am sure that people do own several accounts addresses for the bitcoins. Others have the coins traded everyday and you will find that they do not have the coins in there accounts but they are in the network working and multiplying. Anyone however who owns more than 100 coins to me is a rich person. The coins are enough to do greater things and give profits you cant imagine.

It is no question that the richest bitcoin is Satoshi
Everyone must know about it

I'm not, I'm just sick of the box in my living room asking me to send money to feed them every year. If there were more Nobel laureates than crime lords coming out of the region then I might be open to continued financial support. I can end crime in the Sudan completely with one large dog food grinder.

Yeah? Could you please give me his wallet address then. Just to check how stored his BTC really are.

http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com/address/1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF?charttype=balance (http://www.bitcoinrichlist.com/address/1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF?charttype=balance)

This one has to belong to one of the most richest Bitcoin very early adopters, maybe even Satoshi. Rank 3 on the rich list and has never sent a bitcoin since 2011.
If you track it down, the sum in this address is derived directly from very early mining rewards that have never moved since they all got sent to this address in 2011.

https://blockchain.info/tx/e67a0550848b7932d7796aeea16ab0e48a5cfe81c4e8cca2c5b03e0416850114 (https://blockchain.info/tx/e67a0550848b7932d7796aeea16ab0e48a5cfe81c4e8cca2c5b03e0416850114)

This is the transaction that seeded the address

Why the hell would somebody consolidate 80,000 BTC of mining rewards in one address and then never move them? Has there ever been any information regarding this address?
80,000 BTC was already a lot in 2011


Edit: After looking more at the seed transactions, it seems this was most likely the cold wallet address of a service, an exchange perhapse. So there has to be some information regarding this address out there

really hard to find name,because many bitcoin user have fake or anonymous identity,we just can indetify from bitcoin address,and its not enough to know who is the holder of that address.

i dont know dude, because i think that's not important.
why we think about wealth of others? but maybe they can inspire us in seeking bitcoin

It is very hard to know how the richest bitcoin users. Even, i don't know how much every users of bitcoin have BTC . But my friend told satoshi nakamoto have very a lot of bitcoin

That is what they say. But we don't really know, because we still don't know who he is.
I think Satoshi had a lot of bitcoin and just converted to fiat money and now is just having a vacation or retirement.

Yes, you are right. Impossible  to Satoshi Nakamoto converted all of his mine. From my viewpoint it can affect to bitcoin' s value.  If I  the richest bitcoin users I also need retirement from my hard work bitcoin activity

There's Charlie Shrem, and the like.

Get over yourself.   It's their money and even if they dumped it all on the market tomorrow,  they don't owe you or anyone else a courtesy flush.

you are right, it is really easy to hide your wealth when it comes to bitcoin and it is really good i think

It is quite hard to find out. No one knows whether this Satoshi Nakamoto is one individual, or a group of individuals. Secondly, we don't know whether he is alive or not. And most importantly, even if he is alive, we don't know whether he has access to the private keys of all his Bitcoin wallets (it is more or less confirmed that he is having some BTC980,000 in all his wallets).

It should be that way, tbh, but the problem is is that people can easily copy and paste the public address to see how much that address has.  That's a real problem in, for instance, Satoshi's case (if that person is still alive) because he has made his address public and people can see his coins there and if he moves them at all.  So, unless Satoshi just all the sudden wanted to create a mass panic in the bitcoin market place; it's safe to say that the total remaining Bitcoins in circulation are 20 mill instead of 21.

Having a protocol in place where there is no ability for people to see how much you have in your wallet or trace where one person sends to another person is a pretty important thing for personal security of your own wealth.

The richest bitcoin user is the people that hack bitfinex bitcoin, the hacker got bitcoin worth $72 million stolenn from bitfinex. The hacker is get rich in instant and i can't imagine that.

If that is the case, the richest guy must be Mark Karpelès. In 2014, he stole around BTC650,000 from the Mt Gox users (in addition to another $50 million worth of fiat). Now he is enjoying his life, moving from one luxury apartment to the other in Tokyo.

biggest holder bitcoin i think satoshi nakatomo
because he is founder bitcoin and early price bitcoin only one dollar, so he much collect and hold bitcoin
but diference he is lost private key or all balance in sell

Why do you want to know?

Mark Karpeles Bitcoin address is still active since I looked at it a few months ago anyway

and the sums moving around from it from what I can remember are fairly sizeable

of course satoshi Nakamoto has millions of bitcoin in their wallet but I'm sure he will not sell all their bitcoin at a time. of course it will hurt himself. I do not think that he is the bitcoin? he is the creator of course he has a lot of bitcoin. for users themselves. I've seen users have more than 1000 BTC in their wallets

i thin no one know about the number the amount of bitcoin one have, and that is the beauty of bitcoin, but still i am sure that there are must be so many people who will have a big amount of bitcoin,

Yeah. OP already included that in his post.

If I'm going to be one of those rich people I won't ever say anyone about it. What for? I won't let myself be in danger.

i secondly agree with you...the richest is satoshi....but i dont know of anakapulco..though will make research on or check it out...

I think we will never know their names :)

The fact is people will never disclose how much amount of bitcoins they own, they would like to keep it secret and its impossible to know the names of richest users.

Chinese English teacher and angel investor Li xiaolai said that he has over 100k btc, must be a top 10 rich guy if the figure is correct

Still his coins are worth less than $60 million in fiat. When we will get our first Bitcoin billionaire? Li Xiaolai will become a billionaire if the exchange rate rises to $10,000 per coin. But that seems to be a long way off. I am losing patience over the stagnant exchange rates. When we are going to see BTC surging in to the 5-digits?

Chamath Palihapattiya is on record as saying that he owns ~ 25k coins
Tim Draper probably owns 25 to 50k coins all purchased via exchanges and auctions...

Tim Draper is probably kicking himself right now because his coins are worth less than he paid for them at auction.

I don't know.... In addition to the coins which he got from the Silk Road auction (close to BTC30,000 at around $600 per coin), he purchased thousands of additional coins from various exchanges. And right now, it seems that he is almost at break-even.

I can't help but think, what if he decides to dump his coins right now to get back his FIAT? What would happen? He definitely won't get his 60M$ if he panic sells his 30kBTC because there is no such support at this price range. We would see like 100$/BTC i guess.

Yeah, he couldn't do that and not lose money. He has to be it it for the long haul because it will take years for the price to go high enough for him to sell and not crash the price. If he bought at $600 and began selling at $600 the last third of his coins he would be selling below $400 and lose money. He needs the price to be above $1,000 to sell for a profit.

Those who bought at $600 are probably invested for the long haul. They see the potential in bitcoin that is why they can afford buying that much. Besides, the price has reached 4 digits once, there's no reason to believe it isn't going to reach that price again. The only real question is when. And I'm sure this huge investors have the patience to hold until they have profited enough from it.

Why he must be a billionaire? You can afford anything with 60 million usd in fiat. Many villas, yachts, super cars, even small plane and jet only costs several millions usd. He needn't buy a Boeing 747.

10k usd per bitcoin is an impossible thing, how can you imagine that price if btc is 10k usd, damn I could be a millionaire if bitcoin is 10k usd. Bitcoin riches can be very wealthy compare to fiat riches.

I doubt if Roger Ver have any Bitcoins at all, because lately he has been very outspoken against Bitcoin. He is busy pumping Monero now, and once he is finished with that, he will be jumping to the next thing. The pseudo anonymous nature of Bitcoin gives everyone the peace of mind that their financial status would be protected from the thieves of this world.

In some instances the governments are part of these thieves, so it protects you from them too. ^smile^

if its actually true they predicted the bitcoin price will go sky rocket lucky for them i wonder where did they got the money maybe they bought it when the price was still less than 0.01$ 

in my opinion we can't get a real detail whether who hold the btc in large bulk amount because bitcoins is the platform which allows the user a secret & best privacy to hide his detail .
since we can see the some of the official and former member detail that how much they hold buy you need be a member for this to chek detail .

i am quite sure, that every large holder (or let us say 99%) was in early. i would define a large holder as someone with 1000 bitcoins and more. so maybe they mined it or bought it, but like i said 99% of those large holders did it before 2013.

I dont think the richest bitcoin people are known because the bitcoins are all not on name because it is untraceable so you wont know who has the most only if they are saying it.

i think that there might be a need for bitcoin price to increase way more in the future and only then we might see a first bitcoin billionaire

There are just few who are talking openly about there bitcoin holds, I recall theymos opened a thread selling some of his personal coins "and changed his mind" and it was around 1000 BTC. Some members like dooglus seem to have quite a sum but not sure about the exact amount if they ever mention it clearly though.

I never knew anyone who were rich with having bitcoins.  Yes, it should be the developer who is the richest with bitcoin as he was the one who created this masterpiece and was become the reason for every altcoins birth.  I would gladly to meet people who were rich with btc.  I would like to know them and atleast ask them to give me just a part of what they have.  Lol

Honestly its hard to know who are holding a lots of bitcoin or richest in bitcoin user. because we can not know those easily i think chinese farmers are the most riches users of bitcoin.. because chinese have a largest mining farm. .

I'm probably one of the richest bitcoiners in this thread except my riches are rolled up in Bay Area real estate.

hahaha, though if he will hold it enough he is going to be in profit in my opinion so that shouldnt be too big of a deal i guess

I would think Theymos would surely have alot of hundreds of bitcoins so he would surely be one of those users but can not tell how much exactly or near about he own.Nor could any one other tell about it.I also know 1 or 2 guys from lending sites who are holding close to 1500BTC or even more are more in giving loans and investing.

you are right but another thing that i want tell you , bitcoin is a way to store money in form of btc unit without knowing another person which is privacy . if any person will openly declare that i have large bulk amount of btc then there is very less need of  online bitcoin like wallet for such type of people .

Bitcoin is anonymous.The large holders(most of them) obviously want to stay anonymous.

There are rumors about large holders wealth but nobody can verify the rumors.

Why are you asking this?Why do you care?

We can never tell who it is! If I will be rich in using bitcoin of course I will not tell it to the world for privacy and security purposes!

thats true, most of the people who own some bitcoins right now usually are just anonymous in my opinion and we dont even know them

I think it is not possible to know about them unless someone comes himself and shows what he has, otherwise we cannot find them.

Its impossible to seeing them because i think they are also afraid to show their bitcoin and how much they are holding.. and maybe someone can bruthforce the private key of his address..

Aftet satoshi i do not know who will be the richest bitcoiner of this generation but i can say that satoshi dice has really made some of men really profitable. I mean millionere or billionear

Today?I don't know who are the richest bitcoin users. If you mind, share to me your ideas guys. Is really bitcoin can make a person rich?  :)

Makes no sense to have to expose the owners of the adress just because they are into the top 100 richest list, bitcoin its pseudo anonymousn and if someone show off, its a sure the bad people will attack their family, soo its a big reason to stay the way it is, even being curious about each adress i do understand the risks to get exposed.

I don't have an idea who is the richest bitcoin users, but I guess if we are going to have intelligent guess those people are the developers of bitcoins. I think Gavin is the richest bitcoin person. And maybe we can also consider that Satoshi is next or first to him. But we can't prove it unless we are going to know their bitcoin addresses.

Multi-sig, with most those addresses still active today.

I do not know who has the most coins but I see on the internet satoshi he has a lot of coins, so no one can match it

Satoshi owns by far the most bitcoin (if he/she didn't dump the coins yet), and we'll deserved. But what does it matter? Focus on yourself instead of losing yourself in other people's possessions.

That's some crazy amount of BTC!

There might be a huge shift in Forbes ranking supposedly BTC is treated as currency rather than asset.

Pretty crazy and if anybody was known to be among that list they could be putting their lives in danger and there is a possibility that one bitcoiner could be the owner of several addresses from there...and there is a possibility some of the private keys to those addresses are lost.

I know someone who owns more than 1Million Bitcoins :D

I guess or should I say the richest bitcoin owners presently should be the original creators of the blockchain network, since they were able to buy much of the crypto(or own much of it) at an early age then I think they should be the richest

You mean 1 million Bitcoins or 1 million counter value of Bitcoins? This is huge sum.
I think that the richest Bitcoin users are early adopters who bought large sum of Bitcoins at the begininig and kept them long enough to achieve this value. But this information about richest bitcoiners would probably remain secret because they don't want their identity to be revealed if they are smart enough.

Of course the creator of it Satoshi Nakamoto. but I think the others are the people who have the extreme patience to wait to sell their bitcoins. And some are the richest people here on Earth like Bill gates and other creator of large Trading site and Wallet because that is for sure that they are earning a lot of bitcoin in that kind of business.

People who adopted and trusted the bitcoins in its early stage are the one who holds the maximum amount of bitcoins. No one will disclose that they are holding the huge amount of btc, due to the fear of security and inquiries from government officials. 

Why I'm here? ;D

 I am sure that people do own several accounts addresses for the bitcoins. Others have the coins traded everyday and you will find that they do not have the coins in there accounts but they are in the network working and multiplying.

This guy : https://blockchain.info/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r

In dollars there are currently $ 2,509,491,675 and seriously if i convert them in my currency i would totally forget the counting as the number will be unreadable, there is some insane amount of money right there.

I think the person is a very good trader, or maybe the person has a very large amount of bitcoin for a long time. but I think a lot of people who are in cryptocurrency have a very large number of bitcoins.

Satoshi Nakamoto is incredible rich man or group of people. This is obvious thing. Also the people who bought bitcoins in 2010 or even 2009. They have got so high profits that I hardly can understand what they feel about.

This is a great legend!

I was looking for a large sum btc for the investor. (20-50K)

No offers.
Those who wish can not confirm the availability.

because the bitcoin is anonymous in the chain of blocks you can see the address but not to those who belong among them also open banks and governments and even the cia does not really know the richest one would be nakamoto of the others you do not know can say they have but it is not certain I suppose that the richest ones will be those who gift them nakamoto in 2009 and those who bought for there in 2012 and those who sold in December 2017

I think the most bitcoin users is Satoshi the one who created bitcoin he created bitcoin because he want to share their learning and knowledge about bitcoin and they want to share his blessing that he adopt because of bitcoin.

I am not sure if it is only one single person or a group. But coin base should be in the top people/company that have bitcoins. I will try to find the source as i read it somewhere here in forum.

it just speculation who was that accounts was..no one will ever know the owner of the account. you can see the addresses but you sure will not know who is the owner of that accounts.I wish im in the top ten richlist..hehe..

It's not easy to track who owns the most Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is anonymous, I'm sure that people do have some account addresses for bitcoin. But anyone who has more than 100 coins for me is rich. You can imagine that with 10 Bitcoins it's enough to do bigger things and provide benefits that you can't imagine.

Just appeared new data from the  block blockchain Diar that one percent of the wallets own 55 percent of all bitcoins. Of course, you can not tell who these purses belong to. However, this indicates that whales can fully control the crypto-currency market. I think that's the way it is.

it's impossible if they say that they have a lot of bitcoin, because it will endanger their lives. so to find out who is the best bitcoin holder is impossible I feel.
but maybe they have another reason if they dare to be arrogant to have a large amount of bitcoin. ??? ::)

nobody will know who is the one :). people can only guess, but could not know exactly.

It is not easy to be able to account the rich persons in terms of the coins they have. I am sure that people do own several accounts addresses for the bitcoins. Others have the coins traded everyday and you will find that they do not have the coins in there accounts but they are in the network working and multiplying. Anyone however who owns more than 100 coins to me is a rich person. The coins are enough to do greater things and give profits you cant imagine.

I think none of those people who have a large amount of bitcoins in their account will ever admit how many coins they have . I'm sure they're all in separate wallets.

As such there is no facts and figures that who owns the maximum number of bitcoin or who is the richest bitcoin this time or if would be that I also don’t know but the thing that that these richest bitcoin owners are the real whales of the crypto market and the flactuation in the valuation of bitcoin is mainly determined by them only as they use to invest a huge amount of capital into bitcoin resulting in inflation in valuation and vice versa.

Who is the richest owner of bitcoin, no one knows because the ownership of bitcoin is not for people's names but based on complicated codes. The richest owner of bitcoin can be ascertained by investors from the beginning when the price of bitcoin is still cheap, so the ownership is very large. Loyalty to bitcoin is finally sweet.

Definitely, it is clear enough that the security of block chain does not allows any third party to get involved which means to say that no one will ever know who is the richest users.

No one can really identify who among the investors are the richest bitcoin users because bitcoin wallet are all annonymously owned by different people whose identity is not visible.

Well it was year ago when that amount tallied to that person,i wonder how much he has now?or maybe that value drops since it was recorded when the market bubbled and now that the price of bitcoin is divided into three,so that amount become lower than a billion already

We can only see the addresses but can't link any real person to those, but it's interesting to see some BTC-blue-whales.

The amount of bitcoin in the world is not in one place, it is widely distributed all over the world. So, I think Satoshi is not the one with the highest number of bitcoins in the world.

I don't know who is the largest and richest bitcoin holder in the world. because many people invest in various countries. if I think again, maybe Satoshi holds the most bitcoin in the world.

I think they will not say the bitcoin they own, maybe they will divide their bitcoin into many different wallets to ensure the safety.

I don't think he is a trader, I will not be a trader if I have that big amount, I could easily make an international class company with that much bitcoin, and I can hire lots of people with that bitcoin I have and enjoy my income without working, maybe he is an early investor or developer

No ome will tell if they are one of the richest in bitcoin industry. Because all of us thinks that we are the poorest. However, in regards to the information that you provided that Satoshi has 1.1 Mil BTC, then he will be the richest man in the whole world!

Does anyone here really knows who are these people with big volume of bitcoin? I think only few knows about it because in the first place, no one really wants to tell that he has that amount of bitcoin in his digital wallet for security reasons.

i think mark karpeles was so incompetent that he not took anything for his own actually
it was pure incopetence, and "police" recovered 200000 bitcoins to give back to people

Until now the blockcain technology system is still very good, so that the main goal will not be replaced as anonymously, the transaction is transparent without looking at the profile of each user. Thus, even now no one can know who is the person who has the most bitcoin. No mention of the name is of course also good for bitcoiners because if you know the identity of the richest, you will be pursued by greedy scammers with bitcoin.

Nobody will give you the correct answer to this question. People, especially the richest ones, do not want to share this information with everybody. If you had millions, you will also not tell everyone about it.

The nature of bitcoin is anonymous. you will not know the richest Bitcoin holders until they want to know others about them.

Satoshi Nakamoto aka Elon Musk ;D ;D ;D

it is really hard to know who hold a big amount of btc now, because i think they hide their identity for their secured because many bad people can hacked it. but i'm pretty sure he/she is very lucky to have that.

I think the detailed data of who owns bitcoin in the world cannot be known with certainty because transaction turnover also keeps moving without anyone being able to provide data

I dont bother any more than the fact that owning just 0.28 BTC make you the prized 1 percent of the hodlers.
Let the blockchain do what its do best and you keep on to hold on to your dear life your private keys.

i have no idea who the richest bitcoin users are and how much they own as no one ca accurately say. people just assume some indiviauals own a large amount of bitcoin but no one has come out to declare how much bitcoin the own publicly

How it's possible to know who are the richest bitcoin users? In fact, I think it is quite impossible for us because they themselves don't want to disclose about their status. They hide due to a security issue as we can guess. So we never find out them and we will never know who are the richest bitcoin holders except Satoshi Nakamoto  ;)

If i have large amount of bitcoin, i will keep silent and prefer under the radar. Its very risky exposing our identity when we have a large money without good protection. In that website, there is no identity who owner the wallet because its anonymous

The richest bitcoin owner is unknown, because it's only an address with bitcoin contents without a name, so whether it's their own, a group or a company also nobody knows. One of the biggest bitcoin owners is twins Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, his bitcoin has exceeded USD 1 billion.

The richest bitcoin users cannot be determine because the wallets are very unique and no one knows whose the owner of such wallets with huge number of bitcoin. Since every wallet are not registered no one can identify who are the owners.

maybe they are still holding back longer and trying to save the bitcoin they have so that bitcoin really becomes very expensive and bitcoin has started to be difficult to obtain and after the expensive price maybe they will sell some existing bitcoin.

No one is so stupid that they want us to call Bitcoin the most, if any, people who are liars. Because when someone is holding Bitcoin a lot they will never tell others because they will be in the reach of the bandits and hackers.

I'm sure that there are various ways to find out about how much bitcoin people hold; however, as many posters already mentioned, there seems to have been a considerable change in practice, especially compared with the early days of bitcoin, and it would be quite rare for individuals to keep bitcoins in a small number of addresses.  It could also be less and less prudent for exchanges to keep bitcoin in only a few addresses.  So in the end, large holders are likely to embark in a practice of spreading out their bitcoins, and how much they spread it out may depend on a variety of their own personal circumstances, and maybe even some coincidences (which might also contribute to some reluctance to move some of the coins very much once they are already in a seemingly secure location). 

Of course, on the other hand, there seem to be developments in both direction.  One set of development seems to be attempting to connect addresses to one another in order to attempt to figure out possible common ownership, and another development direction seems to be providing more and more tools to be able to allow disconnection or reannonymizing some addresses.

as you know there are some bitcoin addresses with big sums and they stay untouched for a long time. so noone knows are they lost or someone just holding these amounts.

It is waste our time when we try to figure out who is the richest Bitcoin user. I don't that person will share any of their experience with you.

You will never know who is the largest bitcoin holder besides Satoshi, maybe only the closest people who know who is the most bitcoin holder besides Satoshi, and for me that doesn't really matter because the most important thing is how bitcoin can return to its highest price.

It is really hard to know who owns it for real I mean who is the person behind the wallet's that have a great amount of Bitcoin,
We could see some wallet which have a huge amount of Bitcoin but we couldn't really know who own's the wallet .
Satoshi Nakamoto is one of them but surely we don't have enough proof who is Satoshi Nakamoto in real life .

Nobody will come forward to claim himself to be the richest bitcoin user because nobody wants to trape themselves in hackers or scammers it is all about security concerned. So far I know Satoshi Nakamoto is the richest bitcoin user in the world but pal really should we need to care? Actually, it is none of our headaches.

We can never tell who it is! If I will be rich in using bitcoin of course I will not tell it to the world for privacy and security purposes!

no one can know the richest bitcoin owner because we have no income scale and written records that can serve as guidelines in the bitcoin assets that we have and other people

People who become wealthy are people who can take advantage of every difficult situation.
As is the case at this time, when the price of Bitcoin decreases, the person will dare to take risks and buy bitcoin in low price rates.
Then he holds for a long time and sells it when the price has increased.
So if you all want to be rich then you have to take risks !! People who don't dare take risks will never get the chance to become rich.

I think we never know about that person. The info about that person will be kept as secret. No one want to public their info.