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A blockchain account that holds bitcoin, the first and most famous cryptocurrency, this is a wallet with fantastic value https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Maybe everyone can identify a wallet that is not from the market ?

I'm pretty sure anyone here or anywhere that holds thousands of bitcoins prefer to not expose themselves. That's pretty much just like asking to be kidnapped or to be targeted by hackers.

There are some of thee people who are holding bitcoin that is more then the published wallet balance put together and those are the real bitcoin billionaire's, what we must understand is that bitcoin respect privacy and at that most big holders of the coin are unknown and operate in they privacy.

 ;D Agree, one of the main reasons why people loved bitcoin decentralization is due to anonymity. Crypto millionaires feel secured because they can store as much as they can without getting their identity disclosed.

There was a case here in our country were a woman involved in crytocurrency got robbed at home and killed, which I think happened last 2017.

That is why it is best to remain anonymous even if you are just holding a decent amount of bitcoin, for your own safety.

there is no such thing as "blockchain accounts", the concept of account doesn't even exist in bitcoin.

these aren't "wallets" these are addresses and almost all of them belong to services which are mainly exchanges.
those individuals who own large amounts of bitcoin rarely hold them in one place because that can make them a target.

I wonder why you like to know? Where's the essence of anonymity  which is one of core characteristic of bitcoin dude if you will know who's the owner of that wallet! It's like saying, you know who's Satoshi...lol

but seriously, no one will admit they even have more than 10 bitcoin ...IRS/FED is the keyword   ;D

We cannot actually go and see how much amount is there in a person's wallet , only a few people come out in the open about how much money they have in terms of Bitcoins , it's still better than being in the public eye and being targeted by someone , the whole thing is supposed to be hidden also in some countries they would even have to pay taxes regarding that , therefore I don't think we can just find out , only few public celebs , some people who were made famous by the internet are in the limelight , besides hackers are a big threat , literally very big , they can easily steal your Bitcoins once you give them just 1% information.
Sadly we cannot pin point it

That is not entirely true. Some people actually had the guts to expose themselves even though they were aware of the risks involved like:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/meet-erik-finman-the-teenage-bitcoin-millionaire

Most people though prefer to stay anonymous which is the preferred way indeed.

Charts like that does not show the true ownership of individual Bitcoin owners. People with loads of coins "hide" their coins in MANY smaller amounts on different Bitcoin addresses. Some people store coins on hardware wallets and also in cold storage on paper wallets. Before they deposit coins onto these devices or cold storage, they prefer to push it through Mixer services, so nobody can link these coins back to a single individual.  ;)

So what you see there are mostly cold storage of large exchanges and wallet providers and not individual Bitcoin holders.  ;)

the real question that you should be answering first before asking your own question is "what difference does it make?"
since bitcoin price has gone up from practically being worth zero to a huge value ($20k at some point) there obviously are some bitcoin millionaires who started accumulating bitcoin in early days that it was worth nothing and have made a big profit but in the end knowing who they are and how much they own doesn't change anything for you so asking this question here doesn't make any sense unless you have a particular reason which is why I demanded that question.

It's just bitcoin addresses, no name is attached to it so it will be hard to identify them eventhough everything is on the blockchain. So there's no need to exert efforts to find them. And purpose does it served though? After you have find at least one? Go after them? No crypto investors with huge amount of bitcoin will exposed themselves in public maybe some few notable persons. Are you will to tell anyone out there that you have own millions worth of bitcoin?

They are using the anonymity of course.

These people or maybe a group of people will not be that easily known since we can't just track their wallets that easily. If people can track or locate these wallets, I think they will be in danger the same as that person that is beaten up in front of his child. Just imagine being a cryptocurrency millionaire and being tracked by the people that kill people for money.

Anyone with thousands of BTC vaulted in somewhere safe, probably anonymous as hackers are trying hard to identify such low profile people with millions worth of assets. Some had already make big businesses or simply generating passive income simply by owning it. Unless public needs nobody speaks about their fortune honestly.

True and maybe this is why Satoshi doesn't want to reveal his/their true identity.
He/They doesn't want to put his/their family in danger .
Some of those who become wealthy by crypto wants to keep it to theirself and doesn't want to brag about they want to remain low profile for their own safety.

if investors who have a lot of bitcoin obviously will not expose themselves, but if you want to see the owners of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, you just see exchangers like binance, hitbtc, poloniex, idex, btc-alpha.

Why would you want anyone trace who owns those Bitcoins, this is none of anybody's business, Bitcoin was created to be anonymous and we should respect people not to tell how many Bitcoin does he has. If I am the owner of those Bitcoin, I will not boast my wealth to anybody.

I was sure of this too until I read the news last year about some Bitcoin millionaire who bragged about it. Well, people robbed him and took all his wallet coins. Don't know what they did but I guess most people if tortured would give up their private keys. I know if someone even breaks my finger I'll give everything! So yeah, maybe just best to hide that you own Bitcoin, especially if it's a lot.

They have some people who I know they became millionaire because of the bitcoin and other is not because the only we see is the wallet their balance and we don't know their true Identity. They have few people who are now billionaire because they invested a lot of money in the year 2009 and still have patient so their have good result which is a lot of money.

Huge money in that list, whoever owns that are living like a king already.
Some of them are exchanges wallet but majority of them are unknown, probably they are also the whales in the market
and their big holders can move the market and therefore they can play with it.

The main advantage of bitcoin is its anonymity. This is what attracts a large number of investors. It is fair that they seek to hide their identity in order to keep their funds and lives safe. If I had such wealth, I wouldn't want someone looking for me to reveal who I am. And for this, at least, need to glimpse less on the network.

i call every bitcoin holder a potential millionaire because it is known that the price of bitcoin appreciates in matter of time irrespective of the fact that the bearish season has lasted for a full season and people are still trying to get to adopt it in their everyday transactions and businesses. In a short time, the price value of the bitcoin will be more than what it is today and every holder is a millionaire

I have no idea what do you mean under "from the market"
but here is for your viewing pleasure : top 100 richest bitcoin wallets
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-2.html
if you have a Sherlock Holmes dormant in you , you can go and track the wallets and see what or even who are they connected to

Well, I didn't literally mean 100% wants to be anonymous. There's always those kinds of cocky people who love to flaunt their riches. I guess some people have to learn the hard way.

People are so paranoid these days  >:( , there are a lot of public crypto figures and how often do you hear of them being kidnapped or attacked? never


I'm not saying its the best idea make all your information public but I don't see life worth living if you are in constant fear and paranoia. 

If you ever find a wallet address that has Bitcoin in it then expect that it belongs to the exchanges and not with a single person. If i have that big Bitcoin in my wallet then i would rather put it on a hardware wallet. But it's too obvious if someone has that big amount of Bitcoin they should have divided it to multiple wallets to avoid suspicion from people who have bad intention.

It seems to me that there are almost no such people.  Because bitcoin is found in almost everyone who sits on this forum.  And this is a large number of people.  And you can not concentrate bitcoin millions in one person.

Being paranoid is not necessarily bad. Remember, better safe than sorry.

For those crypto figures, it's pretty understandable. Being in such a hugely growing industry, and well, it's their career in the first place, so them getting some publicity is really expected. But for the common person? You're publicizing that you hold bitcoin, for what? Just to flaunt them? In exchange for potential issues with criminals? I don't see where it's worth it. If only you know how much death threats some of those public crypto figures get.

Also, just because not everything is being publicized in the news, it doesn't mean that nothing is happening.

Boy you should read the news about $5 wrench attacks on crypto holders and traders.

https://www.ccn.com/dutch-bitcoin-trader-suffers-brutal-torture-with-a-heavy-drill-in-violent-robbery

The person you're talking about was the Bitcoin trader right ? That news was just few months ago, the stolen amount wasn't a million BTC but still a large enough for most people.

There's no one to be found because ask this to yourself, if you have a million BTC would you announce it to the public that you have this much in your wallet?

I completely agree.  Even if someone has this million bitcoins, he would never in the forum tell this.  That's for sure.  But I still believe that this person still exists.

WOW interesting to see that, but i doubt we will ever find out who are those guys/girls/companies  :)

They just need to do 1 sell/buy and everything goes to hell, or other way around.

Are you assuming that those wallets that holds large sums of bitcoin are from blockchain.com wallet? I don't think so.

What do you mean by this? a wallet that exists and has bitcoin in it is already part of the market.

As per label on the site you linked it is mostly exchanges wallet that are on the top10 only few was personal or we dont know if its personal wallet or not,im pretty sure theres still an individual with hundres of thousands more than on bittrex coldwallet that remain unknown or he is keeping it secret.

They need to be more private or else they will ended up like that. I know a millionaires but not as much, he’s great in trading and works a lot that’s why he become rich. Bitcoin millionaire already have a great fundamentals and they already know what plan and strategies to do so they can multilply their bitcoin, i hope they are not the bad whales.

no one can't be identity who has big balance on wallet. because this is blockchain without centralization of where they wallet arrived on name and country. i saw of them old man when bitcoin easy to mine on little compentive. they hold bitcoin along time ago and know price bitcoin could be up and be sure can be grow up over 2017 then they still hold they have.

We can see the holdings in the wallet, but we don't know whom does the wallet belongs. To be a bitcoin millionaire is possible and more common people have attained it in their real life just on buying and holding the bitcoin. There are people who have turned millionaires through bounties as well, upon this millionaires of cryptocurrency happens through different forms. One need to know about the market as well needs luck without which it is simply impossible.

It is difficult to know who the owner of the wallet is, which is more certain that he is the person who follows the development of bitcoin since the beginning of bitcoin was created.

all maintain the privacy of all wallets, namely the greatness of bitcoin, if indeed there is someone who incorrectly indicates that (that address belongs to me) I think it will be a fugitive

One of the beauty of Bitcoin is its  anonymous or rather its pseudonymous feature and privacy. Many are bitcoin millionaires and are not known. So being a bitcoin millionaire is being safe. Bitcoin is also  the currency that had made a lot of people early adaptors millionaires by just believing and HOLDing it. It is also making a lot of investors and traders rich.

IMO, the most address that own thousand amount of bits usually exchange.
It's impossible for 1 people that able to own thousand btc except the owner of course.

Whoever they are , they need to extra careful on how they store those bits !

It is difficult to identify it all, because of the basis of its anonymity. We can only know just a bitcoin address no more. Maybe the large number of wallet holders of bitcoin can be exchanges, investors or Sathosi Nakamoto or a member of Bitcointalk.

If every wallet belongs to each people i think they can be recognized as bitcoin millionaire but if the question who is own those wallet i think it's hard to find because nobody know who are them and the wallet it's almost near to fully anonym and not easy to find the identity but i think possibly one from those address belong to an exchange

And why should we be interested in knowing who owns wallets containing thousands of btc? And right those addresses will remain anonymous to us and pretty much everybody. If i'm holding that much btc, i'd be smart enough not to risk my life and my loved ones by disclosing my identity. What do you even get from that anyway?

Bitcoin was made to be decentralized and anonymous, the point of bitcoin will disappear if you point out which people owns which address, which can be dangerous for the person especially if he's holding a enormous amount of bitcoin.

Great. We don't need to know the affairs of even someone else property. And if I have tens of thousands of BTC, I will not reveal my identity. Try to continue anonymously. With a bitcoin design like this that remains anonymous, it will be better. And I think the owner of a bitcoin address that holds hundreds of thousands of bitcoins can live safely and comfortably with the anonymity.

These guys put together a nice list of the top 100 (known) crypto millionaires and what they've done to acquire that status :)

https://cryptotradernews.com/millionaires (https://cryptotradernews.com/millionaires)

Enjoy!

People choose cryptocurrency or bitcoin since their identity is protected. So, I doubt if any crypto millionaire would even like them to be known. It's a huge some of money and this might put them in risk if ever they will be named. Huge investors are enjoying the anonymity and decentralization of bitcoin.

You are right why most people chose cryptocurrency is because of the freedom it offers it user with high privacy and decentralized mode of financial freedom, the are bitcoin billionaires such as santoshi whose wallet is holding over one million bitcoin. And so many other wallet holders who holds other amount out of the total 21 million bitcoin in use.

I think most Bitcoin millionaires has already been millionaires, and invested some money in Bitcoin. In fact, there are not many Bitcoin riches if you look at the distribution. There are also too many lost addresses and exchange/fund etc. btc addresses in the list.

Yeah that's rhe reason rich people.investing in bitcoin because of the anonymous privacy of the hodlers. And showing of bitcoin into the.public is front to the danger.

because they are interested in knowing who owns the bitcoins ?, if that is the benefit of the privacy offered by bitcoin, the important thing would be that they did not move a large amount of btc to sell...

wallet that is not from the market ? what do you mean by that ? all bitcoin wallets are all the same . they are compose of long letters and some starts with letters while others starts with numbers  . we can possibly recognize a wallet or a crypto wallet if its from bitcoin or  not   .  crypto millionaires on the other hand can easily be recognized by just looking at thier bitcoin wallet adresses although some didnt expose their names and true identity because they are afraid of being hacked  .

If for instance I became a millionaire through Bitcoin I would not reveal myself like Finman did. Well it is safe to guess that maybe he as many security personnel guarding him. In our country's case, if you hire securities, they be even the first to plan something bad or sell you out. So it is very dangerous showing your true identity with you having so much Bitcoins.

Nobody knows who is the richest person who has bitcoin. Digital currency is anonymous so anyone can have it without being noticed. maybe there were people we didn't know before and in the end he was the richest person. the same as when we have not known the actual figure of satoshi nakatomo. this is a system that has a high level of privacy.

what about the founder satoshi nakamoto ? isnt he consider the most richest person that have a lot of bitcoins ? i hear that satoshi nakamoto holds 1 million bitcoins but there were rumor said that he will be selling it soon  .


not all digital currency are anonymous because when you say digital currency you are reffering to all online payment methods such as paypal , payza , skrill and also cryptocurrency , etc...   only cryptos are known to be anonymous  .

This is right the faces behind those wallets are unknown and at that one can be mislead thinking it belongs to an individual but may belongs to an institutions and group such as exchange as you have said. So the only individual bitcoin millionaire to me is only santoshi Woe's wallet is holding over a million btc and so many others who are not even made public

Yes, you can only track the bitcoin in each wallet and also track when these bitcoins are moved to different wallets etc. You cannot track the persons who are the owners of these wallets. This is why we say that bitcoin is anonymous as there is no way we can track any person only on the basis of wallet, because we do not know whom the wallet belongs to.

Btc is rising and so is the prices of some other coins. If people who are holding the coins and continue to hold it definitely they will make more money in coming time as compared to others. So this are the luckiest one to be would be millionaire.

You hit the nail on the head. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts should never reveal their holdings to anyone else. There are way too many kidnappings, murders, and hacking attempts to take that chance. Loose lips sink ships, as they say. It's better to go about your business quietly.

With this big amount no one can identify on which wallets are from the markets and which one are not, it is possible that these people are the one who has a deep knowledge about bitcoins if not them maybe their right hand, who has some enormous amount of skills when it comes to crypto currencies so that they can protect their master's assets.

I have seen that information from the website you attached, 125,804.90 Bitcoin (BTC) is the highest number of bitcoin held by 1 address. I don't think it's spectacular, because I'm sure many people have more than that but they don't hold it in one wallet

Maybe they are owned by the exchanges, but whoever owned those wallets are none of our business, even if I owned that wallet I would not shout that I owned any of those wallets, it's not safe to post what's in your wallet and your true identity, you can become a target, banks don't so that and since you are your own bank do everything to protect your asset and your identity.

Many crypto billionaires and millionaires spread their btc among many different addresses so they won't appear on any of these blockchain rich lists.

Satoshi is regarded as the biggest bitcoin holder with an estimated 1 million bitcoins from the early mining days.

I think we also have so many wealthy person that is anonymous from the media.
We all know the names of the big people in the crypto industry,
But what about the people who are still anonymous to us and could line up to their wealth?

Bitcoin millionaires "society" consists of two groups. The first one is the guys, who bought a lot of BTC when this crypto was cheap. The second group is the largest rich investors.

Whoever's invested 100$ in Bitcoin in early 2010 and hild their investment untill today is now a millionaire.

Usually people don't scream on the street they are millionaires.

they are the ones who have a lot more knowledge and a lot about understanding and strategy about bitcoin. they have a lot of tokens of different clusters that they keep in mind and save for the day to lift the price. but before they got it they also got a great investment like time management and also money.

Maybe the richest are not holding just 1 of those high amount wallet but many of those.
The one who can control the market price.

Why would you want to know who owns those Bitcoins, this is none of anybody's business, Bitcoin was created to be anonymous by an anonymous man and we tend to keep it this way. At first I doubt that my identity will be hidden forever in bitcoin but guess what, I’m wrong and bitcoin is very secured because you don’t have to put your information there just to use it. I’m using bitcoin in my everyday life, primarily on gaming (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/durian-dynamite?utm_source=ccdd).

Considering the current state of the crypto ecosystem, people are concern about protecting their digital asset rather than making the amount of Bitcoin in their wallet known to the general public.  The crypto space currently is not really safe to show the amount of Bitcoin you have in your  wallet. A bitcoin millionaire is some one who gained about 90% of the total number of Bitcoin through either mining or trading and his/her bitcoin which can be estimated about 1000 worth of Bitcoin in his/her wallet. 

In terms of bitcoin millionaire i think only one person has more than 1M bitcoins and that person is satoshi nakamoto, we could say he is the only bitcoin millionaire in the world, i don't sink someone holds more than 1 million btc, even big business like poloniex have less than that amount,

Who is a Bitcoin millionaire is one who never thought that some day Bitcoin will have good value as of today and more future to come. Is really a great opportunity to get hold of bitcoin now because in more 5 years to come (on my own analysis) it will be more Greater than this.

I agree, those who holds thousands of bitcoin never tell to anyone or expose him/her coins just to make it private and be safe to those bad guys especially hackers out there. Hackers are very popular with this kind of activity so it is safer to be quiet than to expose what you have. So I am sure bitcoin millionaires will not going to expose their coins. That's a secret.

Though Bitcoin wallet and transactions are actually available to everyone's scrutiny...owners can remain anonymous if nothing can connect them to the accounts. Once there is the connection then certainly the address can anymore be anonymous and this is why many are calling Bitcoin not really private. With so much sophisticated tracking technology we already have in the market, it is good to be always careful at all times. Thieves are getting to be intelligent and there are people with genius minds who are choosing to trudge the dark side in using their talents and knowledge.

Almost half a million of BTC in the circulation belongs from 4 addresses or let's say 4 holders only? That was insane :o! For sure they are now sitting on front of their PCs and watching their money to rise while on the other hand I'm hodling few fractions, feel scared of the market's fluctuations and thinking whether I could get profits or not (I know most of you can relate).

Those big investors out there are surely called "whales" because of their strong influence. Also, I think they are the early adopters of btc, there's no doubt about it. I wish i could become a btc millionaire someday (well, dreaming is free lol).

Strange that this list is not have Tom Lee, he's making very optimistic and exaggerated predictions that I thought he'd taken all his money and bought bitcoin. But from what I see he just makes exaggerated predictions and did not buy too many bitcoin. something very strange coming from someone very optimistic about the future of bitcoin


This is a big problem

Amazed, I am speechless to see it. they are such a millionaire people, and i am not one of them. I am trying to earn more bitcoin and buy bitcoin, but still i am very junior than them. I have no competition with them, so simply i will say i am not Millionaire of Bitcoin.

That is right. They better to keep silent and not tell how many bitcoin they have or how much money they have. The thief is on everywhere, and we don't know who are they, and we need to keep by ourselves on our money. The hacker will always search on the next target, and once they found one target, they will do anything to steal the money from the owner.

I am sure that many people are bitcoin millionaire, some of them already sold their bitcoin in 2017 ago and still save the other amount of bitcoin and waiting for the next bull market. And the other still keep the most bitcoin in their wallet and not selling for a long time. If you can be one of the bitcoin millionaires, then you should always protect your wallet and don't tell anyone about bitcoin.

Whoever would endanger oneself by telling about owning a large number of crypto funds? This is ridiculous. There is no reason to build an assumption of who these bitcoin addresses belong to because one person can have as much bitcoin addresses as he/she wishes. I don’t think that Satoshi Nakamoto who is a creator of bitcoin and the biggest holder of bitcoins (around 1 million) would store it in one address. The bitcoin address with the biggest amount of bitcoins (almost 123k) may belong to crypto exchange. If it performs numerous transactions, then it’s very likely. Furthermore, we know about bitcoin millionaires among some public personalities like Winklevoss brothers, Michael Novogratz, and others however, most investors prefer not to disclose their investments. I think there are many not public grey cardinals with substantial amounts of bitcoins on multiple addresses we have no idea about.