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Hi, I am a noob to all this bitcoin stuffs. It sounds like an interesting idea but before I invest too much into it I have
some questions and concerns. Perhaps highest on my list of concerns is the possibility that someone will buy up all,
or most, of all the bitcoins that exist.

Will it be just like the existing economic system where the rich get richer on the backs of the poor?
Will that not destroy the whole bitcoin project and make whatever bitcoins I happen to get myself worthless?

I have read a few things on this kinda stuff and some of it sounds pretty scary. I don't know how much of it
is FUD or how feasible any of it is at all at all.  

Please help me understand and ease my mind in regard to this issue.


Thank you

It is practically impossible to buy up all the Bitcoins that exist. As they are purchased, the price rises exponentially. Imagine how much this mysterious buyer would need to pay for the last Bitcoin still available? Who would sell it, and at what price? If there were only a few coins left, the price would be several millions of dollars, and people would simply use the fractions of a coin in the same way they today use a full coin. Furthermore, if someone attempted to do this, it would not harm anybody, and conversely the amount of resources that would be poured into Bitcoin would be immense! Every one of us who owns any coins at all would be rich, and would have the ability to start and fund new ventures.

I can think of nothing that would accelerate the strength, power, and development of Bitcoin more than "someone trying to buy all the coins."




The rich typically "get richer" because they earn money by providing things people want. This is also how the poor "get richer." Those crooks who get richer via the coercive power of government intervention or through fraud will not be benefited by a monetary system that removes this coercive power. Wealth is necessarily MORE merit based in a Bitcoin free market than in a fiat centrally-planned and controlled market, because those avenues to achieve wealth through anything other than merit are reduced through Bitcoin. To be sure, a more merit-based system may lead to greater wealth inequality... but so what. Every man has the right to that which he earns.

The "distribution" of Bitcoins is meaningless - it is the manner by which one is able to acquire them which is important. One can acquire dollars through government force. One cannot acquire Bitcoins in that same manner. This is why Bitcoin is fundamentally "fair," no matter who's rich and who's poor, and why fiat currencies like the USD inevitably lead to wealth distribution that is fundamentally "unfair."

Oooooh, I can hardly wait. Who is he? The price for my bitcoins will be $1 million each. This guy will make me rich. I will pay good money to know who he is.

actually it would be $infinity.  woohoo!

If the Dollar is worthless, that would still be nothing though. :(

+1

an infinite amount of zero.

What is someone bought all the gold? or oil? or electricity? or corn?

He'd be totally screwed because as I sell my 104th to last coin I'll have such vast riches that he'll have to make high level physics breakthroughs and sell me trips to the past or distant galaxies in order to get more.

No it isn't.  The point is nobody could buy all the gold or all the corn or all the bitcoins.  They would all be equally stupid attempts.

You can't acquire "all" of any commodity not without forced gobal "sales" using military force and the threat of physical violence/death.  Even if I were to liquidate 99.99% of my bitcoins I would still hang on to a few so the buyer wouldn't get all of them.

That really not likely since the next block would be worth about infinity * 50 / existing coins. It would be the most solid secure valuable block chain based currency even imaginable.

Why 99.99%? He's paying whatever you want. Sell half or 1% for more riches than you can every use.

What on earth would you do with all the corn? Spread it around to other people immediately?

Someone want to buy all existing bitcoins?

Nice! I am selling some of mine at 20 billions $ each  ;)

Gabi your brief comment actually conveyed the point I was trying to make better than I could have :) Nicely stated.

All this still fails to account for the coins that have been lost to careless wallet handling, sent into the void, or otherwise put someplace you can't get to them anymore: even if I wanted to, was forced at gunpoint even, I absolutely could not send you the first .00003355 of a coin I earned while mining.  Why?  A typo in the payout address.  They're still out there, somewhere, and until some hacker extraordinaire manages to crack that key they'll remain there.

This hearkens back to the argument from the '80s that "the Japanese are buying America!"  Someone's got to sell it to them!  Personally, I'm not selling mine for a nice long time.

What if someone bought up all the existing dollars?

I think the Chinese are trying but they forget how good we are at printing.  One thing no country can do better than the US is print dollars (oh and sell weapons of mass destruction).

USD, the first homeopatic currency.

Certainly not the first, and quite likely not the last either.

He wouldn't need to buy all of them. If his purchasing streak pushes prices up so high, or so fast, that nobody will sell them or use them, then for all practical purposes, bitcoin is dead. A currency with no current is not.

Of course.  It is so easy.... er wait no it isn't.

Rising prices will cause people to NEVER (till the heat death of the universe) sell or trade. 

Is that your claim?  Really?  Can't find any flaws in it?

Not my claim, but look up the thread, ppl saying they'll sell for billions or $infinity if it gets scarce enough.

The discussion was about some entity buying all the bitcoins, and the counter argument was that this was impossible, cause people wouldn't sell them all, because you can't force anyone to sell. Or that the price would get so high it was not feasible to trade it.
My argument is that at that point, bitcoin is no longer useful as a currency, so the malevolent entity would have reached the goal of stopping bitcoin. So he wouldn't have to actually get all 21 million of them. Just enough to stop the liquidity of it.

(P.S: Even though that's my argument, I don't believe that the value will increase infinitely as it gets more scarce. The supply / demand law doesn't work well at extremes for one. Secondly, the bitcoins are not destroyed. The entity still has them, and can dump them at any time. Would you really buy bitcoins at $1000 (or whatever would be considered a high price at that time) a pop, if you knew some entity, let's say a goverment bent on stopping it, had say 10 million bitcoins in their wallet? That would be extremely risky, thus most people would stop buying (or start selling) and stop the price increase.

The discussion is useless. Let whoever make a try at buying "all" bitcoins so that the price will finally rise. I will sell mine at 10$ per coin already. Perhaps a big part at 8 or 6. I need to make up for a lot of costs. Topic postponed until at least 2022 or so.

Somehow I like how this discussion gets started over and over again :)

Simple answer: If anybody would really achieve to buy all BTCs (which would cost close to all the money in the world as stated above), on average 5 minutes later some miner would have more for him. Most likely AMD would get bought up by the same mysterious guy, every university in the world would give classes on "FPGA and future mining approaches", not only WWF would rally against BTC, the price of electricity and every hardware - new or old - containing any kind of IC would sky rocket, ... crazy world :)

They could make a ridiculously huge tortilla chip.  Would we have enough salsa?

It can be done, but it would potentially cost tens of billions of dollars for one person to buy up that much coins, as the last few thousand/hundred coins will be insanely expensive.

I respectfully disagree. If there's only a few thousand bitcoins left in circulation, and one entity controls the rest, then the community will flee (probably to another blockchain), the infrastructure will shut down (why run nodes if you have no coins), exchanges will close (as trade grinds to a halt).
And in that situation, is there much value left in a bitcoin? Scarcity isn't the only thing that determines price or value. The last dodo wasn't worth "insanely much" when it was killed.

If we are assuming that the only motivation of this entity is to buy all coins, then your objections don't make much sense to me. If the last dodo was infinitely divisible, and every unit had the same utility as the other, then yeah, we could use that analogy. In other words, a "last Bitcoin" is practically impossible. What if 1 BTC were worth a ton of gold? How would it deter trade? It wouldn't.

On the other hand, if the question is whether such a powerful entity could destroy Bitcoin *now*, then I don't think anyone would object. Bitcoin is only as powerful as the people that support it. Negatively affecting it this may become totally unfeasible in the future though.

The entire global economy could run on a handful of Bitcoins.

21M is simply an arbitrary value.  If 20M were lost Bitcoin would work just as well on 1M coins in circulation.  If 20.9M were lost it would also work equally well with 100K coins in circulation.  Conversely if Satoshi had made the block reward 50,000 instead of 50 then Bitcoin would also work equally well with 21B coins in circulation.

Bitcoin is divisible to the 1E-8.  So 100K coins is  10,000,000,000,000 discrete units, but even that is just set by consensus.  Bitcoin could allow smallest divsions if a majority of hashing power agrees.  At sat 1E-12 that makes 100K coins in circulation = monetary base of  100,000,000,000,000,000 discrete units (that's more than the # of pennies in global money supply).

I certainly wouldn't flee from the community. I'd sell half of my BTC to the insane buyer, and use .0000001 BTC like I use 1 BTC today. Plus, it's only a simple change in the code to add more decimal places.

Interesting that the Mathew Effect is being observed in BTC: https://www.goldsilverbitcoin.com/mathew-1312-bitcoin-style-the-rich-get-richer/

Idk whos this guy but he can make us rich

OP, it can't happen. I wouldn't sell my bitcoins hence the buyer could not buy all existing bitcoins.  ;D

On the contrary, as the price of bitcoins goes up people will be more inclined to use them. People will offer steep discounts on the items they sell to get the bitcoin in the hope those bitcoins will go up in value even more.

Right. The stores confirm this. Bitcoin highes are rush hours on bitmit and others.

That's also a good argument for all the "deflation is bad" threads that pop up every month or so.

That would be like a few billion USD, am I right?

What if someone necroposted the most stupid thread up again and again?

This thread was created to provide a place to discuss, what was once considered it seems, a frequently asked question by newbies, as presented in the
New to Bitcoin? Start here! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7269.0) sticky.

I never really considered it a frequent question, let alone one I myself was ever concerned about, but in the interests of completeness I thought I should play the role of a newbie asking the question to provide a place to discuss the topic... 

I created threads for all those questions in that sticky... the moderators didn't even bother adding links to the thread I created which dealt with this question:
"Could miners collude to give themselves money or fundamentally change the nature of Bitcoin?" 
That is perhaps a topic people new to Bitcoin might be more concerned about than someone buying up all the Bitcoins. 

That New to Bitcoin? Start here! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7269.0) sticky should perhaps be updated again with more relevant questions and information.

A currency with no current is a store of value just as an atom that sheds no electrons is still potential energy. Bitcoin is money, not a currency traded for a single commodity at the highest market price on a universal exchange. Bitcoin is not more or less dead whether a bitcoin can be sold for $4 USD or $265 USD. People tend to hoard coins as prices move up and they tend to spend coins as prices move down. Bitcoins are commonly exchanged for values that are unrelated to a fiat currency. The market would have "current" as it finds a balance between hoarding and spending.

That would be wonderful - I would hold out until the price is up 1000000Xs:)

It seems, from looking at the amount of transactions and the experiences of bitcoin shop owners, that the reverse is actually happening: people hoard coins as the price drops (hoping they will go up again in the future), and people spend coins as they go up in price (taking advantage of the increased buying power of their money).

With one prominent exception: Satoshi Nakamoto never spent his 1,000,000Ƀ, most likely cause he knows it's going much higher.

1. How you know he has 1M bitcoins?
2. Maybe he lost the private key

1. 1M coins were mined with the same PC in the beginning and none of these coins moved.
2. "He" didn't. Trust me on that.

My assumption is that "Satoshi" mined and bought many more coins and we will know who it is in less than 5 years from now.

Do you remember the source of this?

I guess https://www.bitcoinstore.com/ mentioned this here on the forum and bitmit confirmed it but basically that's quite logical from my own experience. If only I head the money to buy this, this and that … if exchange rate rises, I will spend some coins. In my case it would be about a major investment and not about buying small stuff I don't actually need. I don't see anything bad about a deflationary money stopping people from buying stuff they don't need. Would save the world a whole bunch of problems. Actually I dream of effects like planned obsolescence being an actual argument when buying stuff, as with fiat money, anything but spending it is just stupid no matter if the jeans fall apart before washing them for the first time or if they hold for a lifetime but with honest money people will start to think about buying stuff that doesn't loose its value.

Good enough, thanks.

just asking is this possible that someone bougth all bitcoins

Then bitcoin be dead.

No I won't be selling my last Bitcoin.  They can buy all of my coins for $1M each except the last one which isn't available at any price.  So there you go I have proven they can't buy all the coins.

Come on think about it, nobody can force you (or anyone else) to sell, so nobody can forcibly acquire ALL Bitcoins.  They can acquire some and the more they try to acquire the higher they will drive the price.  Even trying to acquire a significant fraction would drive the price extremely high but unless every single Bitcoin "coinholder" is willing to sell every single coin they own then no it is not possible to buy all the Bitcoins.

Try that with any other asset.  
Is it possible for someone to buy all the land on earth?  all the gold? all the apartment buildings?  all the shares of all the companies? Pretty silly to even think about it.

Though it is fair to say have a very small # of huge holders of the currency would be detrimental to its longterm viability.

where we will buried this dead bitcoin because its not alone many peoples also going with this  :-X

The prices will rise indeed but if he decides to sell people won't trust as prices will start downfalling.

Even if the government were to somehow coerce owners of bitcoin to sell all of their bitcoin them them, the government would still not own all of the bitcoin. There have been some transactions that have sent outputs to addresses that have no valid private key (this may not be a 100% correct technical way of saying this, but the TL;DR version is that it is that BTC was sent to an address that is impossible to be spent from). 

Or BTC r just wiped out...n ppl move to other newer Crypto currencies.!! That sounds more likely to me.!

Then we will all be living in world of cash and cash alone.

does it mean 51-attack will happen if someone buy more than 51% BTC

lol.. :) Which we all are doing today.

No. A 51% attack refers to mining capacity. Owning bitcoins doesn't give you any power or control over Bitcoin (except perhaps the exchange rate).

Another + from me. Your surely a cognitive thinker ;)

just waiting for the day when bitcoins will be $1 million each!!!

and all petrol, dollars, golds, diamonds holder will cry a lot!!!

buy BTC now!!!

ora cry later!!!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I don't think anyone except satoshi nakamoto can pull that off. He will be wanting to collect his spread treasure.

Then what would the mexicans eat.... the humanity....  :P

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

sathosi is playing with his model train like a little guy!!!

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-247957.html

no longer thinks to bitcoin!!

 :D :D :D :D :D

1) I'll let Satoshi answer this one.....

Satoshi Quote
July 9, 2010: "When someone tries to buy all the world’s supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes. At some point, it gets too expensive for them to buy any more. It’s great for the people who owned it beforehand because they get to sell it to the corner at crazy high prices. As the price keeps going up and up, some people keep holding out for yet higher prices and refuse to sell. The Hunt brothers famously bankrupted themselves trying to corner the silver market in 1979."

"Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt attempted to corner the world silver markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at one stage holding the rights to more than half of the world's deliverable silver.[1] During Hunt's accumulation of the precious metal silver prices rose from $11 an ounce in September 1979 to nearly $50 an ounce in January 1980.[2] Silver prices ultimately collapsed to below $11 an ounce two months later,[2] much of the fall on a single day now known as Silver Thursday, due to changes made to exchange rules regarding the purchase of commodities on margin.[3]" ~SN

2) If you want to understand the economics of Bitcoin, READ THIS(it's all there...just click)
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070618142414/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/scarce.html
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ttps.html
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html?m=1
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-ye-so-long.html?m=1
http://unenumerated.blogspot.ca/2008/06/commodity-hysteria-overview.html?m=1

3) The first credit to Bitcoin in the white paper was a citation for Wei Dai’s “bmoney”.
The first paragraph of “bmoney”:
"It’s a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations”. ~Wei Dai

The Internet and Bitcoin were created to allow people to solve social problems in a novel way: Instead of the ancient formula of “the strongest wins and then beats the crap out of the loser” we all can achieve a peaceful society where both rich and poor, strong and weak can protect their property and freedom on more equal grounds without relying on violent institutions like governments.

I dont think thats gonna happen as long as me n my pals hold up our bitcoins.!! :p

Then you guys would be very rich if this happens, though I think you sell before that when the price starts to rise astronmically.

A 51% attack would be possible if someone bought up 51% of the bitcoin and we decided to change the mining method to PoS

To address your point 1) above - it seems to me that a big holder with more bitcoins than the liquidity on the exchanges can keep pushing the price down, and thus keep buying at low prices.  It requires much more money to do this with silver, and more people would care and interfere.

Hi
I am new to this forum, rather very new to Bitcoin community. A very basic but important issue is on my mind. I can not figure out the incentive for miners after the capped amount of bitcoin are created (21million by the year 2040 say). Would the miners will survive only on transaction ledger commissions only? If so, would it be enough of an incentive for the community to keep bitcoin ecosystem alive after that point? Please help me to sort the issue.

Exchanges are already capable of this attack if it shifts to POS. The amount of machines dedicated to Mining is very much. If it were to shift to POS, huge losses will be suffered.

The estimate is near to 2140, actually


That's the idea, yes.


For that to be sustainable, Bitcoin would need to be valued in millions of dollars, and have a user base of several million people as well. That way they can receive satoshis as reward and still be profitable.

We don't know whether we will get there at some point, but that's the way it needs to be for it to work.

This is a very easy question.

Bitcoin rate is market price, the higher the demand, the higher you can sell. In theory.
But everyone has a limit when it starts to hurt, or isnt senseful to buy.
On the other side, if someone was willing and splendid enough to buy every BTC,
this person would have to make literally everyone rich who currently owns BTC.

After this happened, different to a normal currency like the dollar or euro, it would loose next to all of its value, which was necessary to achieve them.

Furthermore, just and only one person couldnt maintain all the technology.

Dollars can be printed again at will but bitcoin cannot be minted.There's a limit of how much btc can be generated so unlike gold,corn,dollar etc it is not impossible that one person has all of available bitcoin.

The bitcoin amount on the world is too much,i think even a most wealthy person is unable to buy all the existing amount .
For that a state or a group of state would have to pay all its money to buy that amount and after that they know well how to make worth of it.

One of the really wealthy billionaires could buy it all but what's the point? To control the bitcoin market? It would crash.

You CAN'T buy all bitcoins because :
- most of then is NOT on exchange
- most of then is NOT even connected at the bitcoin network actively (cold storage)

If you try to buy a high amount of bitcoins, you have this scenario :
- buy 500 BTC = 400 USD
- buy 500 BTC = next offer is at 500 USD
- buy 500 BTC = next offer is at 600 USD
- buy 500 BTC = next offer is at 1000 USD
- buy 500 BTC = next offer is at 3000 USD

you can't deal with it ... it's a free market after all.
whales can only wine when they discharge now (crash of the value).

not when they (try to) buy.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img903/6632/1DB13U.gif

It's nonsense to even think about it, there is no possible way anyone would buy every single coin, because there are people who would never sell.
The large parties like states and corporations are more likely to create their own fork of bitcoin, or entirely new coin, then that they would try to buy bitcoin off.

Practically it won't take place. If someone buys and holds a huge volume of the bitcoin, it won't affect much in the price of bitcoin. He surely has the ability to move the price of bitcoin by accumulating huge bitcoins, which generates demand with less volume in circulation.

Not even summing all companies with the large revenue in the world would have cash to pay for it. Imagine the scenario in bitcoin rising 100% a day, that would be crazy fin world.

If this is happening some day, i would like to have tons of it ande sell for a thousands % of profit! LOL

If anyone wants to buy all the bitcoins there must be sellers.so if demand is more sellers will charge so we can earn more in this case

why petrol, dollars, golds, diamonds holders should cry when their stuff don't even get affected by bitcoin? bitcoin have nothing to do with those stuff
their wealth value still remain the same even bitcoins reach $1 million price,nothing to be worried for them

Some btc are not in this world yet, so nobody at least can buy those. And for what will someone need such an amount of btc? I think it will make the price fall, because nobody will use btc much if they belong to one person

if anybody by any miracle could buy all the existing bitcoin then he would be bag holding something that has no value because he has all of it in his possession and since nobody else has any, nobody can use bitcoin anymore and it will lose the value :D

This thread was started years ago. Anything worthwhile to be said has already been said.

Oh sorry! I didn't realize that you are posting spam in order to increase your post count. Carry on!  >:(

I would have to say that if someone would buy up all the bitcoin, the value to it would be null.  The reason I would say this is because there is no Bitcoin to be purchased and there is no one willing to take some form of currency that only one person has control over.  If all the bitcoin was bought all the exchanges would have no use to trade it, so it would die at the end.

This thread started in 2012 and its been dug back up lol.  Interesting to see what they where talking about back then.  Its obviously fairly obvious now that it would be practically impossible to buy up every coin now.

First I would think that it would also be impossible to buy up all the bitcoin.  There is so much and it would be worth about 14 Trillion dollars.  It is not all mined so that would prevent it and there would always be transaction fees out there that were paid to buy all of the bitcoin. It is interesting reading through all of the back old questions.  I like looking at the ones in which we already see the answers and then look to see who if anyone actually made the correct prediction.  Then you also get to look at all the stupid comments and all. 

First of all he think that he is on top of the world but very soon he will feel guilty for buying all bitcoin became when all bitcoin will be bought by a single man then obviously there will be no demand in market and all bitcoin user will move to other cryptocurrencies and final no one will like to use bitcoin. And that old man will weep in grief.

yes that is a fact that if the demand is increasing then the price of bitcoin will also increase, but in other side i think a single person cannot buy all the bitcoins as the price of bitcoin is really so high from the range of a single person to buy it.

Bitcoin Market Capitalization is around 10 Billion USD today. I think someone with that amount of money wouldn't waste his time on such stupid experiments. But let's assume he'll start buying anyway. The thing is that probably and even most likely the price of Bitcoin would rise so high that 10 Billion USD wouldn't be sufficient to buy even half of Bitcoins existed.

If someone buys all of our coins then all of us will have fiat money leaving the buyer with all the Bitcoins. He can either step up his Bitcoin advertisement game and then convince us to buy Bitcoins from him. In that way, he'll earn money and the price of Bitcoin will pump because it would be scarce on the market.

Other things can happen too. Somebody might create a carbon copy of Bitcoins and while we are selling our Bitcoins, he's starting to build up his coin's audience. Making us all migrate to the coin that he just created.

It is not possible to purchase all the existing Bitcoins, simply because all of them are not for sale. For example, what about the BTC980,000 which is held in Satoshi's wallets? These coins haven't moved for almost 7 years now, and no one knows whether Satoshi is having the private keys or not. A lot of the early miners were careless with their private keys, and a large number of the coins have been "lost".

So that guy hold all bitcoins and bitcoin will be dead because no one wanna buy it. Where will he spend all the bitcoin?

I think it is impossible to buy all bitcoin that exist because not all users are selling their bitcoin in exchange. so even though the rich will not be able to buy all bitcoin although he has a lot of money.
and after all, there are millions of existing bitcoin might need about $ 1.2 billion to buy all bitcoin

But its possible someone purchase all the bitcoins in circulation, with a low cost, some people would dump their coin now as they can convert into fiat and moove on. But the big owners, miners and early adopters may react and make price crash more.

This is impossible,but if someone buys all the bitcoins in the world and holds them, the bitcoin

price will become zero and he will lose all his billion dollars invested.

All the bitcoin users will move to some altcoin,i guess.

I will give up bitcoin and rather deal with other cryptocurrency and that old man well eat his bitcoin and one will be there to buy bitcoin again and final his  property will be his and he will die of the mistake he did.

Some flash news from eastern Europe:
Russian oligarchs with president of Russia included , currently buying off the bitcoin!!!!
Hint: look up power outages in Russia and you will understand that is really happening!!!!

can you buy all the gold , all the oil , all the mineral of the world ? So you are asking some random guy come out and buy all bitcoins ? moreover , bitcoin is now about 4000$ he must be like have over 90% of money in this world to buy all the bitcoins ! Also if he buy all the bitcoins ? Bitcoins may be loose price and he will be loose ! Noone can buy all bitcoins ! even donald trump said bitcoin is good but he doesn't invest in bitcoins !

Funny, how this thread started in 2012 and still got replies. IMO, some day cryptocurrency will do something tremendously bad (less chances - something good) to world economics. And, i think, we will see it with our own eyes :-[

One can buy the entire bitcoin if each and every user sell the bitcoin. In reality it's not at all possible for a single user to have the entire bitcoin. Based on the fact it's not required to think about an user holding the entire existing bitcoin and make it go valueless.

This is not possible technically and in practise. One cannot buy all of the existing bitcoins via fiat Money. The price would go up 100x maybe. And other thing is that there is something known as 51% attack. If one has more than 50% of the total bitcoins, then he becomes the ruler.

in reality i think no one would dare to buy all the bitcoin available
most certainly people will just look for another kind
what you got would have no value at all
waste of money

Your idea is good but it is impossible. As it is now, the price of bitcoin is very high. Owning some bitcoin - you can already become a millionaire. Bitcoin decentralization a lot, I do not think anyone can buy all. Unless the price of bitcoin goes down.

haha The one who created this thread was a noob in 2012 now he is legendary
em sure he already learnt the answer to his queries back then 
as for me i guess its not possible for one person to accumulate all the existing btc and even one can i think he wouldnt dare.
he would just make the market dead

I read new comments , people you underestimate russian oligarchs , they store physical us dollars "assets" in rooms like 2 -4 floor building not in banks, some of them bought from China a lot of heavy bitcoin mining equipment and as i said earlier their hardware consume to much electricity so some Russian east country parts experiencing power outages!
I predict further heavy btc increase, still i am interested to original question what happens with btc if a major bulk of btc will be bought,  all who own now the btc will become a instant millionaire which in my opinion is very good ;)
Is there any regulations in BTC for such case?

Although that's not possible but even if for some reasons we imagine something like that to happen then it would be just like a dictator holding all the fiat currency and not letting it circulate in the market and then obviously the money he's holding will have no value or will become just worthless so same thing should happen to the bitcoins too eventually they would also become worthless if there were left none of it with anyone of us but all of them were in just one person's possession, it would become worthless I guess.

Though this idea is merely impossible but lets say it did happen, then i think i will find some other ways or industry to invest my money and start from scratch. Or i can invest it to other crypto currencies that are still growing and starting out. Afterall there's unlimited opportunities for you or for anyone here if ever this thing mihht happen especially you already know the trend and the industry.

It is just not practical for someone to buy all of the bitcoins because he will need all the little pieces around the world plus the more he buys the more expensive they will become and I don't think he will prefer to loose all his fortune on something that will be rendered useless after his total purchase.

Yersd it is impossible and it is not healthy too. The bitcoin must be distributed as many peoplae sa it can so that it has a healthy virtual economy. If it is controlled by only one person, then he only is using it and its boring and it defeated its purpose :)

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The question is: Why would somebody WANT to buy them all? I don't see the point?

Yeah power outages means Russia has a plan to acquire all the bitcoins. By mining them....
The current reward is 12.5 btc per block or 500k$ per hour or 12 million$ per day.

Taking into account that there are at least 10 known Russian oligarch with a fortune of over 10 billions or 3 years of mining, I really doubt this is their plan.
They could acquire those coins far more cheaper and without headaches directly from the market.

The outages are a result of poor management , no investment no maintenance.
Even Putin was angry when the last one hit even the government and the some of structures run by the goverment.

Maybe in 2012 there are people who are able to buy all the existing bitcoin. but for now (in 2017) I think it's a very expensive thing. even though it's bill gates. now the price per 1 bitcoin is about $ 4588.77 and even then it can go up again. so I guess for now it will not be possible.

if someone have all bitcoin, just for what??
many possibility about it, like he will sell with high or low price. or people will not interest with bitcoin again, people will earn altcoin. but, no one will buy it.

If someone will buy all the existing or the bitcoins that are left in the markets then the price will go very high and all of us will become happy because of the rise on the price and i think most of us will sell our bitcoin and that person who bought all the existing bitcoin will have a power to control the market using the supply of bitcoin and that will give him a chance to make bitcoin more profitable for him.

Well, in that case the price would skyrocket, at least according to market laws

if anyone buys an existing bitcoin it is he who is the owner and the largest shareholder of bitcoin

I can't imagine a person who can buy every coin in the blockchain. Bitcoin price will rise exponentially to reach unbelievable rates.
I can't even imagine the price of last bitcoin (If everybody want to sell to this buyer).

I dont think that will happen because thinking about it, I don't think that bitcoin is already on its peak. There are still a lot of bitcoins to be mined meaning a whole lot of bitcoins to be added to the market and that means higher chance for the bitcoin price to increase. Also, lot of people are holding their bitcoins waiting for it to reach a price that would really make them very rich and I don't see them selling their bitcoins unless offered with a very very very handsome price.

I also agree with you that it will never happen, because the price of one bitcoin is very high and I also don’t think that one person have the investment to buy all the bitcoin as it is in a very large number. And the other thing is that if someone bought all the existing bitcoin, he will also offer if for sale, and if he do not, then there the controller of bitcoin must create more bitcoin to continue the business.

I think that this is simply impossible, even if 100 years pass. People will periodically sell bitcoins anyway because they will need money to buy something or they may lose them in the trade.

Its not possible to buy all the existing bitcoins,because as you start buying it its amount incrases exponentially,im not talking about 2-3 btcoins,im talking about buying in bulk.
you cant even imagine what would be the price of the last bitcoin,it would be upto the seller as he can ask any unimaginable amount for it.

In general, this is one of the main problems)

But I heard about the project, which will allow to change bitcoin to national currencies and at the same time to "destroy" coins. Perhaps this will solve the problem. But I can not find a link to the project. When I find it, I'll throw it off.

Very ineteresnaya topic for reflection. Especially considering that out of 21 million possible, only 12 million were mined, and this is for 8 years of existence of bitcoin. So buying all existing bitcoins will not happen soon, as with each new buyer its price grows, and buy more of its number is more difficult and more difficult due to the price increase.

Despite the fact that it is old thread, I was looking for something similar or was going to create one myself. But now I'll post my opinion here: I think that won't happen and there are some reasons: 1. Some bitcoins are lost and are loosing (because of someone's bad memory). 2. There are some types of people here who only hold and don't sell bitcoin, they don't look it like money and I know similar persons. 3. When exchanger or someone sees that one man buys all bitcoins, this exchanger will unbelievable grow price and it will be difficult and possibly impossible to buy all of them.

Wow, you posted this question in 2012 and you are now a Legendary member. I said this because it's curious to me that i am in the situation you were back then right now, trying to see how to earn Bitcoins.

I personally think that Bitcoin prize would rise exponentially and if someone manage to do something close to that they would do like the people in the diamond industry do all the time. Create a non-existent lack of offer.

In order for people to sell their btc is because it becomes unsaleable or falls so much in value. Than this investor could easily purchase all the btc`s in market but even if he does it, if people don`t show interest in btc the demand would be very low by leaving this man with a lot of btc but no volume.

I hope that this won't happen. If it does happen, it will be one person vs the rest of the world. How will he be able to buy a coin if someone was holding it? I think there will be holders who will notice the price exchange and most like their initial reaction was to hold it. I don't know if a person is allowed to buy bitcoin. I was thinking "What will he do with all the btc, and if he is that rich, why even do that?". Maybe rich people are greedy and unable to be happy with life.

The number of blocks sets the block value in BTC through the amount of money in circulation. The block cost is 50 BTC for each of the first 210,000 blocks, 25 BTC for the next 210,000 blocks, then 12.5 BTC, 6.25 BTC and so on.

Bitcoin is the first crypto currency in the world. This is the first digital currency of a new generation, which is created not by governments and banks, but on the Internet.

Woooooww OP is now legendary, and to think he was a newbie at posting waynack 2012.
Anyway, I think it is very impossible to buy all bitcoins. One is tje available resources of a single person, two how would he convince all to sell it to them(?), and three it is impractical and would result to extremely low community support-thus, killing your own investment in the process.
So there, I believe if it would happen, and am not saying that it will, would result to you forfeiting the worth of your own thing.

As with any other currency, using bitcoins you can make various transactions - pay, transfer, exchange. For operations with bitcoins, it is enough to register a purse and buy a bitcoin

This kind of thing you said is impossible. Theoretically, if you want to buy all the bitcoins that require huge amounts of money, I think nobody can do this.

Then there will be no supply and unless that person starts using the coins and people can actually make use of it then the coins will have no value and the person will just have a bunch of worthless coins.

No supply will make this market become crazy for sure because people will be thristy for Bitcoin and they could do such bad things to earn Bitcoins or make profits from it. That will be a mess.

One who would buy that will have no profits because if there are no btc left then how could the market price fluctuate and how could they profit?

It would be self defeating because the coin will have no value. If no-one else has it then it can't be used for anything. Even satoshi didn't claim everything as he knew it would make the project fail

I don't think that's possible. This is insanely expensive, and it is unlikely that anyone will invest such crazy amounts in unstable bitcoin.

It is not possible to buy it because the price left is still much and each of it must be used for several reasons. Permit to say that bitcoin is not under and cannot be under rulership of anybody. Its usage and acceptablity is one of the reasons why someone will think of buying all the unmined coins.

I do not imagine how you can buy all the existing bitcoins. Many are already owned by investors. Yes, and it will cost a lot of money. Hardly anyone will be able to afford it.

If even such happens then also btcs will still remains because the mining will not be stopped for it. will it??

before this happening, bitcoin price will increased dramatically first because the demands of this person.
if you want to buy all bitcoin, it means you need to buy bitcoin from all holders. The holders who want to own bitcoin will
set a high price.

I don't know what would happen because that's really an impossible thing. I think so

Then the person would end up with a bunch of worthless coins on his hands because if people are not using bitcoins then it has no value so the price would be zero

I don't think anyone will be so dumb to dump all his or her moneys on such an unreliable currency -_-

It's technically impossible to buy all the existing Bitcoins because  the price would go up to infinity. Plus, new Bitcoins will be mined thus adding to the supply. Those who were early will benefit most.

As for me this sounds not very realistic. Even if to imagine such situation, it seems to be strange) I don't think that they would be still valuable if one person has all of them

No one can ever buy all the Bitcoins ..
Just as one user explained.. the more you buy them the more will the price increase which would cause problem for the user because the closer he will be to buying Bitcoins more will be the price and there will be a point where he would practically loose all his wealth but still won't be able to buy everything else.

And what happens if someone buys up all the gold on Earth? Well, let's say, but then trying to buy all the bitcoins, the "buyer" will simply stop their cost to the ceiling and, while continuing to buy, will spend all that he paid for buying bitcoins.

Not all bitcoins will be put up for sale. bitcoins were originally a good way to save money and in this perspective there are already many people in the bitcoin community who are not ready just to part with their bitcoins. As well as gold, no one can buy those bitcoins that will long be inaccessible for purchase.

This is a difficult one. But if many people combine to buy, this is possible. And when this happens, I will not invest in this market anymore. The market is controlled by their will.

if someone decided to bought up all the existing bitcoins - the price of bitcoin will increase instantly and in a week we will break through the figure of $100k

That was realy imposible to happen because every transactions you made there is a small fee and that fee will goes back to the minable resources of bitcoins so if the buyer buy a bitcoin they need transactions and transactions need a fee and that fee is still a small amount of bitcoin that wont goes to a buyer so all in all calculations it is imposible to happen that anyone can buy all the total supply of bitcoins.

It's impossible. Only a part of bitcoins issued to date are found on the exchange markets for sale. New bitcoins will continue to be issued for decades to come. So nobody could buy all the bitcoins in existence.

You cannot buy and own all bitcoins around the world that was imposible to happens likely because the more you buy bitcoins the smaller of the total supply is the higher of hes price i think if you own the whole money around the world maybe you could but that was realy imposible to own all the money around the world to buy all bitcoins.

Do you really think that's possible? In addition, it is unlikely that anyone considers bitcoin to be such a reliable investment that it will spend millions (or maybe billions) of dollars, what to buy all bitcoins.

If that happens,its value will be worthless,because that someone or few people will be able to manipulate the whole market, if that happens there will be a centralized cryptocurrency market which makes our market be the same just like what stock,and forex markets.There will be no decentralization as what the cryptocurrencies are created for.

I can't imagine anyone daring to redeem all existing bitcoins. But it will be a huge leap forward for bitcoin. The price will go up.

thinking of buying all the bitcoin?lol as much as that is crazy?i cant say it cannot happen but i dont think bitcoin its on its peak at the moment plus there are still more waiting to be minned and a whole waiting to be added to the market and you still can't predict the price till its added to the market cap.plus many people are still waiting for the market to blow up high so the could sell there's also.and with the number i don't think one prsn cou;d invest in all.but like i said there's nothing impossible

If there is someone who can buy all the bitcoin that is there then I will clap for him and I think people who buy is very greedy to want to master all the bitcoin. I find it difficult to realize the person's desire because the bitcoin holder's psychology is different and there will always be a hodler among them.

This is a purely theoretical situation, which would be never realized in reality. And if large players began to buy bitcoin actively, the price would inevitably increase.

I think it is hard to buy all existing bitcoin because as you can see bitcoin is being divided into eight decimal places which some people are having a part of bitcoin and some of them are holding it today so that I think that person will need a lot of money and effort on buying all of the existing bitcoin.

it's gonna be awesome, I can not wait to see my 1 bitcoin value to $ 1 million. this guy will make me very rich, with the person who buys it all bitcoin will stay alive regardless of what is going on by bitcoin itself.

Very miraculous and unlikely, Bitcoin is not a centralized currency. Rely on market demand for virtual currency. If someone is interested in buying any existing Bitcoin and start buying anywhere, the price will go up. Currently there are more than 15 million Bitcoin available. These are not available for sale or even on the market, as they are usually stored for investment purposes and wealth accumulation. Bitcoin is sold in a very small market of total coins.

Yes, I think nothing is impossible. If a coalition compromises on the mission of bitcoin miners. They will have a tremendous amount of bitcoin. But their purpose will show? buy it all and not trade, it is likely to harm the market and reduce the popularity. I think it will be difficult to do that. or the market will adjust.

He can not buy all the Bitcoin. If the stroke of its purchase is high and prices are up. Because no one has the capability to buy all the Bitcoin and it does not have the power to collect it from everyone. It will never be possible, because it is a digital currency that is spreading in the world.

Oooooh, I can hardly wait. Who is he? The price for my bitcoins will be $1 million each. This guy will make me rich. I will pay good money to know who he is.

its not possible no one can buy all bitcoins but in case if its done then He is the legend and all bitcoin world will be in his  control

What an interesting view))

That's not possible. What if questions should be realistic and not theoretical. Many  blocks remain to be mined and the market is now down. there will be a way to mine some of it and continually find a way to create new assets. that's not gonna happen.

Of course this will make the price skyrocket in a short time, but I'm sure this will just make other people hold so bitcoin value is not controlled, I'm sure that this can happen anytime so we should always hold bitcoin.

That thing is really impossible since the amount of bitcoin existing is millions and each of the bitcoin costs about $9000 now so it would require a lot of money just to buy all of it. And what will he do if he bought all of it? I mean holding it for yourself will not really circulate at all so there will be no change in value.

Totally agree with you. If nobody will have it except one person  there will be no point to hold it.

One can buy the entire bitcoin if each and every user sell the bitcoin. In reality it's not at all possible for a single user to have the entire bitcoin. Based on the fact it's not required to think about an user holding the entire existing bitcoin and make it go valueless.

Hello everyone, First of all I want to tell You that I think it's not possible to buy all bitcoins by someone. Because I don't know a person in the world who have so much money. And there is no need to make that step. Lets imagine what will happen, if someone will? What will he or she do with that? And many questions like this that no one can answer.
So I think it can't be in our reality.

I don't think if its even possible for someone to buy the whole bitcoin tokens, that person must be rich  but if it does happen, the value of the coin will rocket as there will be scarcity n terms of supply, it will almost be impossible to get them as there will only be a sole source of supply who dictates the value of the coin

I guess and think it will cant easily buy every existing bitcoin. First is the only people can possibly buy everything is Bill Gates because he is the richest person, but bill gates also cant buy all the existing bitcoin. Simply because bitcoin around the world maybe has a total of trilion dolars. And you must first beat bill gates before you gain that money.

If that someone bought up at all the existing coin I can say she or he is belong to the rich family because she or he can spend and afford to buy all that although it is impossible to happen and if she or he buy it then i think she or he now multi billionaire or that word is not enough to describe her or him because she or he try to own this business by buying all existing coins.

I never try to think that if will be happen someday that someone bought at all the existing coin but if happens then she or he came from a powerful family and she or he will be the one who own it this business.

The value will pretty much momentarily increase at extreme heights becauae if the sudden surge if inciming money in the system. And then after this bitcoin's value will most possibly bounce back to a muh more stabler yet equivalent value
 Bitcoin's fate afterwards lies in the question will bitcoin be circulated among users across the globe? If yes then bitcoin's valye will continue to increase and if it don't, there will ve a huge problem.

Then s/he will be the richest person of all time. But, on the other hand, it isn't profitable, cause BTC presupposes interaction and speculation. So there should be at least two people who possess it!

Well, that guy must be richer than rich people. If he has bought all the bitcoins existing, there will be a huge demand for bitcoins which make its price to pump to an extremely high amount. If there are less bitcoib available for purchase, its demand will surely get high because many people would want to buy a bitcoin and eventually sell it for a high profit. I guess it is near impossible because of the high cost of one single bitcoin, and miners keep mining so he must be extremely rich if he can afford to buy even at the highest price.

Only a fraction of all the bitcoins that have been issued today are sold in the exchange market. The Bitcoin market is competitive, meaning bitcoin prices will rise or fall depending on demand and supply. Moreover, the new bitcoin will continue to be published in the coming decades. Therefore even the most ambitious buyers will not be able to buy all the bitcoins that are present today. However, this situation does not indicate that the market is not vulnerable to price manipulation; still does not require a lot of money to move the market price up or down, so so far Bitcoin is still classified as a volatile asset.

The distribution of bitcoins is very uneven. More than 20% of all bitcoins are on 100 addresses. Here are the detailed statistics, if interested https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

if someone gets all the bitcoins he's the richest  :o money brings freedom - BITCOIN to buy what you want, and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life..................

You can't go by addresses. The top addresses hold bitcoins for millions of people.

The prices will rise indeed but if he decides to sell people won't trust as prices will start downfalling.

likely impossible to happening but if there is someone who bought all bitcoin,
i think they would causing bitcoin price is very very high because all of the circulating supply they want to own.
and they can control the price at their own pace.

Bitcoin Market Capitalization is around 10 Billion USD today. It's nonsense to even think about it, there is no possible way anyone would buy every single coin, because there are people who would never sell.

definitely bitcoin will be very expensive and bitcoin can be increasingly difficult to obtain and it is incredible bitcoin can be very expensive, not only that it is definitely bitcoin will have high volume.

It is impossible to buy all the BItcoins in the world. because he can't buy all coins at once as they having & spread among large no of persons. When he is buying some amount price of the Bitcoin will increase by unexpected as demand for the coin is high.      

 I absolutely could not send you the first .00003355 of a coin I earned while mining.  Why?  A typo in the payout address

As I know not all coins mined yet and when the time will come when all coins will be in hands it is going to be problematicly to buy them all due to the price, I even can't suggest how many zeros it is going to have. And even if all of coins will appear in a wallet of one person it will bring to the price's fall, cause of without speculation and competition there will be no need in bitcoin. Quote me if I'm wrong.

Buying up all the existing coin is not possible cause this is based on a supply and demand market. If someone want to buy up the market, the subsequent prices that he has to buy will increase and this will lead to a exponential growth of the tokens to a point, he cant buy it anymore.

Lol is not about rich or not, this is impossible to do, because not everyone wants to sell their bitcoin, there will always be demand so someone will not be able to do that by buying all the existing bitcoin and if all the bitcoin is owned only one people then bitcoin will die because there will be no activity in the market..

It's hardly possible I guess because one bitcoin worth a lot of money.The lesser the supply, the higher is the demand and it means that the stuff is getting more expensive causing the buyer not to buy all.

if that happens then bitcoin will become very expensive and bitcoin will have a very high demand and make bitcoin prices very expensive and it will be very difficult to get bitcoin. not only that and definitely bitcino transcation will be very crowded.

It is quite obvious that you are new to bitcoin with that kind of question. Apparently, it will be almost impossible that a single person will own bitcoin. If that is what you worry, i believe that bitcoin owners like me will not also allow that to happen. A characterisitis of bitcoin is that nobody really regulates it and that is what bitcoin users like so they will not let it happen.

If someone can buy all the Bitcoin already in circulation! That would be a bad thing. Bitcoin seems to have died, Bitcoin's currency function is locked, Unable to use by 2nd person. This is bad.

This is actually the price of bitcoin will increase again because there is a buy btc. Bitcoin will be more spirited if its price peaked. 

How could that be? We all know bitcoin is not in possession by 1 person so it is very unlikely for someone to buy all the existing bitcoin.
If indeed it happens then the person who bought it will get a loss because the price is uncertain can cause buyers asking for a cheap price to buy bitcoin.

If that's true, it's certain that the bitcoin price will increase dramatically at that time, as the purchase will have a direct impact on the reduction of bitcoin supply. But, you don't laugh first, because after the bitcoin price increment, he could plan to sell it again then that's when the price will hit the floor.

If someone buys it, Bitcoin will become scarce, bitcoin will go up, push it up further, and bitcoin players will also have huge profits.

I for one would never sell my btc at the current price, so that lunatic investor would never get all the btc in the world  ;D If that ever happens, bitcoin will lose its purpose of a decentralized currency, so its value would drop.

Wow, one person buying all the bitcoin? That will be the news of the century. Have you also thought about if that pers9n buys all, what will be the sense when you have noother peron to trade with later on because you have all. Every other person will be with fiat and that person will alone be handling bitcoin, like where is the sense in that?

This is a very old thread and i am glad that it got bumped.
But to be serious, why are people always bumping this kind of threads?

Came on, it is obvious that it is impossible to buy all the entire bitcoin supply.

That isn't possible. And even if it magically happens, the price of bitcoin will be just space.

Dude, check the post date. This was over six years ago. So yeah, he was a newbie when he created this topic. Anyways, BTC price was significantly much much lower back then than it is today. If someone was actually capable of purchasing all the Bitcoins in circulation in 2012, then the price will certainly explode!!! Now this person's strategy would be to sell off all of those Btc's at a higher price which would then decrease its price then purchase them again, then sell them off again..In other words, he'd be doing a BTC buy and sell.

Well we can't apprehend on that matter because it is their choice to buy the remaining BTC and so what of there are someone who do that. I think it is good for us . Because on that way ,I think the founder of btc will make more BTC for sure. For the good of our industry.
Because they thinking that BTC is more valuable than any other things and everyone are interested to it.

Otherwise put someplace you can't get to them anymore: even if I wanted to, was forced at gunpoint even, I absolutely could not send you the first

First the bitcoin can not exist because it is through technology to invest and make for using cellphone or anythings that collect bitcoin what if the bitcoin exist, the many people in this world create a fake exist bitcoin and They do not want to happen.

It is practically impossible for just one person to buy all the available bitcoin. Buying triggers increase in price, which means that the buyer will have to pay a higher price for the next purchase. So the price would rise astronomically to a level the buyer can no longer afford. In a situation where there is such huge buying, bitcoin holders will benefit from the price increase.

if a person is a multi billionaire or zillionaire i think he can be able to afford it even if the price will grow higher because he has a lot cash but i think that is nearly impossible to happen for now because right now bitcoin is still on a dump phase which means no one has a guts to buy in a bulk. even whales dont buy bitcoin in a huge amounts because we aint seeing the price go overboard.


But over all , even though they buy boatloads of bitcoins , they will still  soon sell it and the price will still go down.

There are whales in bitcoin market who buy large amounts of coins but no whale is crazy enough to buy the entire supply as who will they sell it to later on as no one will be interested in bitcoin then. Also once they start buying huge amounts of coins the circulating supply is going to reduce and the price is going to boom which will make it even more costly to buy Bitcoin and not many people in the world have that much money.

I don't know

I don't know

Then there will be no supply and unless that person starts using the coins and people can actually make use of it then the coins will have no value and the person will just have a bunch of worthless coins.It would be self defeating because the coin will have no value. If no-one else has it then it can't be used for anything. Even satoshi didn't claim everything as he knew it would make the project fail

it is not possible in any internet resource you can find information on the distribution of bitcoins is not a small number of bitcoins which are held by purse investors "whales" but the greatest honor among ordinary people is no more than 1-2 bitcoins on the purse

It's not possible, although the billionaire have the money to do it. But the accessibility it's not there. Because bitcoin has circled into the hands of millions of people.

The rich always seek for where ever riches and wealth are endowed. Yes the rich will continue to be rich but i doubt a rich person will be able to by all the bitcoins in the system. The price of bitcoin in my country is really huge that a rich man/woman will try to buy all theses coins. Looking at the volatility of bitcoin, the rich will always calculate the risk involved first.

Although I think it is impossible, I would not be against such an outcome. Just imagine how the price of bitcoin will soar!

wow! 2018 is here! and I'm sure it's still not possible

I think that this is simply impossible, even if 100 years pass. you cant even imagine what would be the price of the last bitcoin,it would be upto the seller as he can ask any unimaginable amount for it.

I think it is close to impossible for anyone to buy all the bitcoin available in the market.  It will take him so much money that I think no one would actually do this kind of stupid thing or idea. Also you have said that rich keeps getting richer,  well not all of them. Majority of them are consistent for the reason that they have doing what they need to do,  like providing people's need in exchange of their money.  On the other hand,  majority of poor people are just contented on what they have that is why they are stagnant.

It is not easy to buy all the bitcoin and pieces that are available. As we know the bitcoin value is so big to buy it all must have a lot of money. Some individuals will never buy. Some organizations are also unlikely to buy. I do not think it will happen

can not be as rich as any person that i'm sure it's impossible he bought all the bitcoin. try to see if anyone buy all the gold that there is or all the diamond not

One can buy the entire bitcoin if each and every user sell the bitcoin. In reality it's not at all possible for a single user to have the entire bitcoin. I do not think anyone can buy all. Unless the price of bitcoin goes down.

It can be done, but it would potentially cost tens of billions of dollars for one person to buy up that much coins,People will offer steep discounts on the items they sell to get the bitcoin in the hope those bitcoins will go up in value even more.

I think one peoples buying all bitcoin in market, there is no fair trade anymore in the future because bitcoin supply monopolized by one person. Its creating not healthy market price and i think it will die soon because peoples dont trust the price anymore 

Surely We can Control the Existence of bitcoin by keeping the bitcoin, and the growth of the community of bitcoin enthusiast is a one key for this, Huge market is not just for bitcoin, there will be a place for some other alt-coins, but we will threat bitcoin as gold.  Bitcoin decentralization a lot, I do not think anyone can buy all. Unless the price of bitcoin goes down.

I thought it was an intelligent assumption, I like that.
Because it really will not happen.

Not even summing all companies with the large revenue in the world would have cash to pay for it. Imagine the scenario in bitcoin rising 100% a day, that would be crazy fin world.

If this is happening some day, i would like to have tons of it ande sell for a thousands % of profit! LOL

For what purpose? that will just make a bubble phenomenon. yes, the price is definitely will go up, but that man will make bitcoin to lose an interest from people. they need that, Bitcoin need attention to increase the value, not just a price. Widely accepted is the primary purpose to make bitcoin great.
If a man has a lot of money, it would be wiser to spend it for marketing purpose to increase the value while stacking up and mining investment for bitcoin

They will control bitcoin price, and thats not good for ecosystem, but practically its imposible to buy all existing bitcoin, many peoples buy bitcoin to keep it, not for sell it back

Will the market isn't worth few billion dollars that any rich person can buy the circulating coins. It's worth hundreds of billions of dollars and once someone starts buying all the circulating coins, the price is going to skyrocket, as the supply starts shrinking the demand is going to go higher and it will directly affect the price.

One can buy the entire bitcoin if each and every user sell the bitcoin. In reality it's not at all possible for a single user to have the entire bitcoin. Based on the fact it's not required to think about an user holding the entire existing bitcoin and make it go valueless.

Bitcoin Market Capitalization is around 10 Billion USD today. It's nonsense to even think about it, there is no possible way anyone would buy every single coin, because there are people who would never sell.

I'm not very good at wondering. But if you look at the reality, it would be very unlikely that one person could buy all the bitcoins. Then the function of the market will die, because there is no the cash flow that occurs. And if that could happen, I could never have guessed, what the purpose of the person has all the bitcoin so as to shut down the market.

I do not think that this is possible. Any monopoly has its limits. no one can buy up all the gold or other valuables, including bitcoin. The world of crypto-currency is rather complicated.

And how could that be possible? No matter that the number of Bitcoins is limited this would be almost the same if you asked what would happen if someone would have all US dollars in the world.
Stop wondering about things that are not going to happen and be more focused on those what is more relevant for Bitcoin.

I dont think a single person would be able to buy all existing bitcoins because how can it be circulating if only a certain person would have it all? I think it is really impossible and would be a ridiculous move to buy up all existing bitcoins.

It's technically impossible to buy all the existing Bitcoins because  the price would go up to infinity. Plus, new Bitcoins will be mined thus adding to the supply. So nobody could buy all the bitcoins in existence.

This is very useful information. I did not know before that the cost of bitcoin increases in proportion to the number of bitcoins that have been extracted. Thank you.

well i think that's not possible but even if for some reasons we imagine something like that to happen then it would be just like a dictator holding all the fiat currency and not letting it circulate in the market and then obviously the money he's holding will have no value or will become just worthless so same thing should happen to the bitcoins too eventually they would also become worthless if there were left none of it with anyone of us but all of them were in just one person's possession, it would become worthless I guess and there are whales in bitcoin market who buy large amounts of coins but no whale is crazy enough to buy the entire supply as who will they sell it to later on as no one will be interested in bitcoin then

If someone wants to own all the bitcoins around the world, then surely it will be days the bitcoin price goes to the moon. But after he owns all the bitcoins on the planet, that's the end of bitcoin

This question sounds funny.. i will go serve the person for life .he will become my boss. what will i be doing if bitcoin has gone to leave with one man. But is not possible. But let me leave this with you..all things are possible.

Will,you claiming yourself that your a noob in this kind of crypto investment,and maybe this question that you created is only an imaginative  statement ,that come out into your mind,and otherwise maybe you have a point,or maybe are not,but in my own perception,this kind of topic  is joke something very funny,because all of us claiming ourself to gain profit,but in your side your waiting to become worthless,and you asking how many all of this is feasible,thats why maybe all of this topic is part of your imagination and expectation.

This is totally meaningless, it's the same as thinking of some investor wanting to buy all the shares of a company. If it did happen the price of bitcoin would go to the stratosphere!

if something like that happens somehow and if the btc would have a value and become a crytpocurrency than this person or company would be the controller of world currency.

For me, it was do really impossible that someone could buy up all the remaining Bitcoin on the virtual market for the reason that the price was that too expensive and even the richest people in the world might have that hesitation to purchased all the existing Bitcoins for some valid reasons involving the span of time until when Bitcoin can gradually increase and also the assurance of its positive price movement will be the concern because it is not just about purchasing but also gaining for your own goods.

this is not possible because the quantity of bitcoin is limited, and if it were so then now there would not be any trade in the market.

they will manipulate the market. But no one will do that, because they will not make a deal.

This is actually the price of bitcoin will increase again because there is a buy btc. Bitcoin will be more spirited if its price peaked.

With current bitcoin pricing, along with peer-to-peer and anonymous exchanges! No one has the ability to buy all Bitcoin that has been mining to this times!

Then the buyer would be super duper rich to buy all of bitcoin. I think it is possible to do that and then he can influence the bitcoin market.

Although someday there will be super rich people who will buy all the bitcoins, I think bitcoin holders still have a refund of what they trade and they invest for bitcoin.
But if it is true this will happen, with what purpose does the person buy the bitcoin in large quantities? Will it be traded again at a fairly high price or does he just want to be a leader?

I do not imagine how you can buy all the existing bitcoins. Many are already owned by investors. Yes, and it will cost a lot of money. Hardly anyone will be able to afford it.

It's not possible, although the billionaire have the money to do it. But the accessibility it's not there. Because bitcoin has circled into the hands of millions of people.

Some one or one institutional buying and having all bitcoin in market, there will be no bitcoin market and thats would be called monopoly. I think that will not happen, because cryptocurrency purpose is creating fair market

It is very impossible that someone can bought all existing bitcoin specially today's bitcoin price, that's not happening i think because people are also want to have bitcoin holdings, if someone eager to bought all bitcoin then he must be sacrificing to give-up his/her wealth.

If someone will bought all the available bitcoin that is not owned by someone , then he or she will require a lot of money , billion of dollars and as an investor I do not think that there will be someone who will buy bitcoin in such huge amount , why? a rich person knows how to invest , he or she will not put all of his money in one investment , because it is totally risky , a wise investor knows the rule of diversification meaning he or she will place his or her money on different investment to incur little risk and a high return.

That so impossible to happen, I think no one can afford to buy all circulating BTC even the most rich people in the whole world, but if so then it can clearly destroy BTC purpose of decentralized money.

It's impossible to buy all the bitcoins even if I am a billionaire, I will not do that. To make this crypto work it should be utilized and circulated.

it's impossible though. but it would happen ithink he would have to spend all of his money as the price would go up so much. lol

Thats true, although someone has the ability to buy all the existing coins but it can not be used because bitcoin is already owned and in the hands by many users and not all users are willing to sell their bitcoins, and besides there are millions of others who want to buy btcoin as well

There is no such possibility at all!
BTC has not yet been mined. Now the price of BTC is already very high. With the difficulty of mining in the future, the price of BTC will continue to rise. If he intends to buy BTC, he needs a lot of wealth, and there is no world. That kind of people!

Buy all the extracted BTC is not possible. The fact is that when buying bitcoin, the price for the next becomes higher and so if you count it, the price for the last will be higher than the price for all the previous ones. So money all over the world just will not be enough.

if someone buys most bitcoin at current prices I don't believe it. control over the rise in bitcoin prices due to their stock in last year when bitcoin prices were very low from this year. probably also true. they bought most of it last year. but I believe in the next 2-5 years, bitcoin will be very expensive. so you don't have to worry to see someone controlling bitcoin prices. believe me they also need a profit.

It's not possible someone bought up all the existing bitcoins if someone tries to buy all bitcoin so value increase like 1 M$, 10M$ after that never one buy bitcoin again and also all bitcoins are not mined so wait next 100 years.

all that might happen because there are so many everyone interested in bitcoin. so we do not conclude what we can not yet know. because everything we think can not sometimes it can happen

If there were only a few coins, the price would be several million dollars, and people would only use the fractions of a coin the same way they use today a full coin. Every one of us owns any of the richest coins, and will be able to start and finance new ventures. Not so. All of them will be the same stupid efforts. Even if I had liquidated 99.99% of my bitcoin, I would still continue with a few so the buyer did not get all of them.

A 2012 post was revived. And even in that time that bitcoin price is lower, it will be impossible since as more bitcoin is being purchased the price will increase and increase.

If a single buyer bought all remaining bitcoins then the price would go up. And the market will not crumble or crash but people will eventually cashout and spend money so the cycle would be the same. Price goes up then down then up again.

No i don't think that's possible, nobody can buy all the existing bitcoin because not everybody will be willing to sell his/her btc at the same time, at the same exchange and at the same period of time. Quite a number of hodlers are out there who who even won't think of selling this year or thereafter.

If someone purchases up all the existing bitcoins, he can pump and dump them at his discretion.

 One person buying the whole bitcoin in existence to me is very much impossible because the holders of bitcoin knows the value besides the coins is not controlled or own by one person so it's not possible for one person to get hold on all the bitcons in existence. And if it happens the price of bitcoin if not the whole cryptocurrency may collapse because there will be no demands or investment on bitcoin if am not mistaken or getting it wrong.

The more a single person buys, the more "rare" the bitcoin gets, and the price will burst. Imagine you with 1 btc, the last in the world, by how much would you sell?

An interesting question of the legendary person as a beginner from 2012. If someone buys up all the bitcoins, which is impossible at all, the bitcoin simply will not be needed by anyone, they will simply forget about its existence and it will not cost anything. Therefore, whales will always take care that a certain part of bitcoins goes among users and the demand for bitcoin do not fall.

I think it's impossible. Some part of bitcoin is lost, some have not yet been mined. So it's just physically impossible.

With every coin purchase, the price of bitcoin is rising. Therefore, this person, if he exists at all, just does not have enough money to buy all the bitcoins.

Did you investing in bitcoin in the end ? What kind of FUD did you hear makes you scared ?
I think someone cannot buy all of the existing bitcoin in the market. When you sell order in the market, you can see the sell order
in the bottom will be gone if there are buyers. And the top sell order will remain because the price is very expensive.

If someone bought up all the existing bitcoin I think he can be a billionaire or the most rich person in the world but there is also a chance that he will be a poor because sometimes the price of bitcoin drop unexpectedly.

that is not possible at all . When we buy a bitcoin its market price goes up and imagine when someone buy 21 million bitcoin ( that is the total number of bitcoin i think ) how far the price pr bitcoin will go . I mean when there will be less number of bitcoins remained for people who will want to sell his bitcoin

First of all, you should understand that investing in Bitcoin has a high risk. Also, it has a high return. It is a bubble or not depends on the community who buy and hold the bitcoin. when they decided to sell all that they have. Then the prices will go down dramatically. Even maybe bitcoin will have no prices. On the other hand, when people decided to hold and buy all of bitcoin, it means that the prices will go up and we don't need cash anymore to do transactions.

It is impossible to buy all the remaining bitcoins. But if this happens, we do not know what's going to happen and it may be the beginning of the riot. Because buying all the remaining bitcoin can control the price and this will be the start of fud and investors can sell their bitcoin and move to more decentralized altcoins and it can be the start of the bitcoin collapse .

If someone bought up all the existing bitcoins then nobody will sell them or use them anymore bitcoin will become useless. Why would someone do that ???.

Its a very strange question.But still i feel if such things happens the price of btc will go to the moon in notime and the buyer will have no choice to dump the coins book some profit and rebuy them again to make some profit.The whole cycle of trading is only buying and selling.I see no point in buying those many coin at a time and even if that happens the same would be bought at very high prices and not affordable as well.The best way is to trade and earn some profits.

if anyone buys all the bitcoin then he can control the market price. he can make bitcoin prices at will, he will get a huge profit because the market price can he set.

Didn't encounter this situation yet so I don't know what happened, I think if ever someone bought all well maybe you will the next bill gates because the will price will blow the market.

I think if the bitcoin existing continuously the price of it become bigger if the bitcoin is existing continuously because the demand of bitcoin will become high so it may affect to bitcoin price to go in higher value. If that someone who buy all the existing bitcoins, I think that person is very rich because he can buy all the existing bitcoin in the crypto world.

He does not need to buy everything. If the purchase pushes the price up so high, or very fast, so no one will sell or use it, then for all practical purposes, bitcoin is dead.

Though it is fair to say have a very small # of huge holders of the currency would be detrimental to its longterm viability.

I'm thinking. that is a purely personal opinion of each and it will personally not affect me We can not say how it will affect the market in General, hence I say that it is better to several large investors than one.

It will not be possible for someone to buy all the bitcoins. This is the most frightening scenario about bitcoin, as the high number of bitcoin is gathering and monopolizing . It is a small possibility that this happens, the bitcoin community is very strong and growing.

I think the value of the bitcoin will surprisingly grow. and other coins will be more higher too but cant face the value of the bitcoin in the reality. also I think the man who can buy all the existing bitcoin will be more rich and will be well-known around the world. and if there is fact idea, he can be the leader or the ceo of a company that can produce bitcoin.

I don't think it will be possible and easy for anyone to buy all the  Bitcoin. There is nothing to be worried or scared about.  Lets just try to keep some little amount so we can enjoy the bull ride when it comes.

wow. i will wait for his/her appearance and i will sell all of my coin. Then, i will become richer  ;D ;D

Usually we buy all the bitcoins that exist because the price will rise sehingg infinite and added new bitcoin to be mined so as to add supply. 8)

Although this is almost impossible, however, we will consider this variant of the development of events. So, someone bought up all the bitcoins. Then they fall out of circulation and lose any value. It will only be a set of letters and numbers and not more. If there is now a lot of crypto currency with improved functionality, bitcoin will soon be forgotten. Therefore, no one will strive to buy all the bitcoins. In order to have bitcoin or other crypto currency value, it should be able to freely exchange in the market and therefore be in demand.

indeed, hard to add to this post. As the market matures and becomes larger the volatility will decrease, but as stated here, if there was a huge buy up 1) it would require people willing to and actively selling their holdings and 2) the price would skyrocket limiting the amount that would likely be sold. The incentive structure of these cryptocurrencies would only mean that anyone attempting to do so would risk their own wealth to the point where it is not worth it.

Practically it will not happen. If someone buys and stores a large volume of bitcoin, it will not have much effect on bitcoin prices. He definitely has the ability to move bitcoin prices by collecting bitcoins.

If someone bought all the Bitcoin he or she will become a monopolist of Bitcoin and all other investors will fall under that person

 A person may find this very hard to do in practice. There are a few barriers.
-Some people may not want to sell there Bitcoins regardless of price. They love the idea of having cryptocurrencies.
-Some Bitcoin are lost. Either people lost there private key to their wallet or destroy their private key (e.g. erasing or destroying there hard drive).
 Let’s say we forget these two barriers. I would think the price per Bitcoin would sky rocket. As the supply of the coin decrease price should go up.
 In the end, a person would have all Bitcoins. I think the amount of dollars they spent (or whatever currencies they choose to use) would be some ridiculously large amount.

This is almost impossible my opinion.. . unless all existing Bitcoins are sold to the government (assuming the government is the buyer) at once, at a specific date/time and for great prices.  Still not everyone will be aware of this deal to sell at that great price.
 The new owners, the govts & those who didn't sell will become the only owners of Bitcoin thus making Bitcoin very expensive and scarce.

If the government tries to crash the price by selling its own Bitcoins at cheap rates, thousands or millions of people will try to buy thereby crashing the few websites that are selling them cheap. Buying Bitcoin will become slow and take very long time.


So you see why it is a dumb idea to buy all the Bitcoin.

No, since not all bitcoins are still produced.  This is not money that can be printed in unlimited amounts.  By 2040, almost all possible bitcoins will be produced.

It could create a lot of impact in bitcoin community for both good and bad. Honestly the effect will be huge as it will cause imbalance for the holding of bitcoin. I think what is about to happen is monopoly as bitcoin will be in one's possession. But the good thing is the circulation can be fix and more opportunities will come.

It can really affect the bitcoin community at all parts especially the other holders and users. I think the buyer might get famous and many will be interested to know him. But the most effect that can be experience is that it can create imbalance. Remember that if someone possess so many things just like bitcoin then he or she has the control of it.

What a funny but interesting question. I would have to say that if someone would buy up all the bitcoin, the value to it would be null.  The reason I would say this is because there is no Bitcoin to be purchased and there is no one willing to take some form of currency that only one person has control over.  If all the bitcoin was bought all the exchanges would have no use to trade it, so it would die at the end. I doubt that anyone would want to buy all of it, what would be the motive behind it?

Motivation?To be monopolist,to own all of them.There are so much sick people in the world ;-) But that will never happen.I tried something like that at online games, price was something like 10000% up in hours.Forget it

A strategy like buying all the existing BTC is good for us though, I can bid mine for about $500K and if he is willing to buy it, I'm sure the rest of us will sell as well. Let's say he sells his after it then price must be a lot higher as market dictates. It may really not happen but if the governments around the world decides to buy all so they can control, it goes to be a hell of a ride.

Who is the anonymous buyer? Would he trade alone?  Is it possible for such to happen? Does the anonymous want to close the market? Impossible!   I don't think that could happen.

This is hardly feasible, since so many units of Bitcoin is abandoned wallets. But in the abstract, if people agreed to sell all the coins Bitcoin, probably, it should not be interesting to them, and even disgusting.

Is it possible for someone to sell all of their bitcoin, by looking at current market conditions,
Bitcoin has no physical value, it has value because we believe and agree with its value, agree not to set prices but set by the market.
One person will be very stupid to buy all BTC, he will only compete with himself, and others will move to create new chains.,,,

This is an unlikely development, no one has enough money to do it.

It's not possible. Just part of bitcoins released up to now tends to be on the trade marketplaces available. Brand new bitcoins will still be released for many years in the future. Therefore no one might purchase all of the bitcoins around.

I don't think that is ever going to be possible because even the federal government can't do that.. there are Bitcoin holders out there who will not like and will not be willing to sell there own Bitcoin so they will not have and will not see were to by it off from.

I can't wait to see 1 bitcoin to $ 1,000,000. This will make everyone very much for those who have it. With people buying everything bitcoin will stay alive regardless of what is happening with bitcoin itself. Make sure you buy bitcoin at a cheap price so you can have more bitcoin. 8)

No it isn't.  The point is nobody could buy all the gold or all the corn or all the bitcoins.  They would all be equally stupid attempts.

All bitcoins will never be bought by anyone, since in any case Bitcoins will gradually be distributed among people. I think that in the future everyone will have approximately the same amount of crypto currency.

If there will be only one holding the existing bitcoin he or she can manipulate the market then.
we should all accept that the price of any coins in the market is due to selling of the holders.
if we will hold it or put it on selling list with the price we want no tokens or coins will go down.
if we will let all the people to buy and not to put buy wall.

I think this is completely hypothetical and is like next to impossible for anyone to buy the entire bitcoins present and it is just not possible because there are millions of people around the world who are investing in bitcoin and almost every individual is owning some bitcoins so being a decentralised crypto currency, there is no such proper authentic regulating and this is the reason it is impossible to buy all the bitcoins present in the market because I am 100% sure that at least there would be one person from the millions who will not sell his bitcoins to that person.

I do not think that the monopoly on cryptocurrency will have a positive impact on the entire market. It seems to me that this should not be allowed.

The way I see things is that, All existing Bitcoin can not be bought by one person. However, it can be possible if the price of it is very low or maybe the cost of it is 1bitcoin is equal to 1dollar. But I think that is really impossible because bitcoin is distributed slowly in many people amd in different countries. And who do you think would do this? Maybe he is a greed person who wants only to have a bitcoin in its wallet.

It is impossible to buy all the bitcoins in this market. If one can buy the full amount of bitcoin, this means that the bitcoin has completely collapsed.

If one person will own every single bitcoin existence on the market, the currency will sure to collapse. But no one will do that right now, because collapsing all the bitcoin means he is losing all his money there.

To me this is nothing but a wishful thinking it is absolutely impossible come to think about it what will the person stand to gain the answer is nothing but should incase He is about to succeed i shall be the last man standing that will make him fail by not saling the only one i have

I think that is impossible. That's a huge number that I never thought of.

Ugh... only just found this post.. this must be mental midget hour.. the bigger question is WHY would anybody buy all the bitcoins up! The bitcoin engine would cease to exist. Miner fees would be ridiculous, it would be a platform which would throttle its own neck. People would move on..

It would be nearly impossible to buy up all the existing bitcoins.  Excluding the lost bitcoins, the circulating supply is estimated to be somewhere in the 13-14 million range.  The richest known man in the world, Jeff Bezos , has enough wealth to buy all the bitcoins at market price but the problem is his buy orders would make the price skyrocket over 20k and he wouldn't be able to purchase all of them.

Well that would be almost impossible, as the less btc would be available to buy, the more valuable it would be. But imagine what would happen if a one could eventually buy the 100% supply? i think, in my honest opinion that it would then drop to nearly zero value.
No more pair to make with btc in trading as there were no more circulating supply, the entire community would eventually move to another coin and make that coin the strong traiding pair. The puersue for btc would eventually stop because you would know that even if you buy back 10 or 20 or 30% of there would always be one guy with more than 51% that could make the price as he want.

Then mine would be worth millions. Supply and demand would come into effect here, but what you're asking is like asking what if someone bought all the gold or gas in the world. They would then have a monopoly, but it would be almost impossible to do because you would need an ever growing pile of cash because the more you bought the scarcer bitcoins would become and would gradually keep pushing the value up in the process. So not going to happen.

The De Beers diamond company tried to do something similar with stones back in the day:

https://www.diamondspot.com/?p=400&lang=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Diamond_monopoly

Also, do you know why diamonds are popular as wedding rings? Because it was part of their advertising campaign by the very same company:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/

Nobody really bought diamonds for wedding rings before that. Maybe we could try popularize the phrase "bitcoins are a girls best friend' and then maybe women would get bitcoins instead of rings  ;D.

Also, what happens on the off chance that somebody purchases up all the cash in this world? All things considered, suppose, however then endeavoring to purchase all the bitcoins, the purchaser will just stop their cost to the roof and, while proceeding to purchase, will spend all that he paid for purchasing bitcoins.

Not all bitcoins will be set available to be purchased. bitcoins were initially a decent method to spare cash and in this point of view there are now numerous individuals in the bitcoin network who are not prepared just to part with their bitcoins. And additionally gold, nobody can purchase those bitcoins that will long be blocked off for procurement.

It is impossible to buy all the existing Bitcoins because  the price would go up to indefinitely and new Bitcoins will be mined thus adding to the supply. Those who were early will have the greatest benefit.

If it does, maybe he is a truly rich person and a person who has a lot of money. Because if you buy a lot of bitcoin it is also beneficial for you in the future to come.

Wow, if there really is, it means that he is a person who has a lot of money and his wealth must also be a lot. Bitcoin is quite expensive and also a good investment tool.

In this case, this person will essentially be able to sell these Bitcoins at their own price and become a regulator. That is, the whole essence of anonymity and decentralization will be lost. Separately, it is important to remember that cryptocurrencies are expanding in their volume, as a result of such a regulator will have to constantly buy more, and for a lot of money.

It is not easy to buy all of bitcoin. If you buy much btc on the exchange, the price will go spiking and resulting to higher and higher price to be bought.
Some peoples may cancel their sell order, and put back the order with the higher price and make the price even higher than before.
Need a massive amount of money to buy all of existing btc, almost impossible.

They would push up the price a tremendous amount. But as for "monopolizing" Bitcoin, what could they do then? Owning a large number of bitcoins doesn't mean you control Bitcoin

Impossible. As soon as they start buying massive amounts people will raise their prices up to 1 million dollars a Bitcoin and they'll never get them all.

If granted that he can buy all the remaining bitcoin, then he'll probably the biggest WHALE of bitcoin. Possible things may happen to cryptoworld will be a healthy market and of course, bitcoin's market cap and price will also skyrocketed to the moon. The only problem with that is that when that someone sold all of his bitcoin soon as the market price of each bitcoin is getting so high than the price when he bought it.

Market monopoly will occur and he can control all available price volumes, but this is not possible because investors are not careless in maintaining their assets.

a very reasonable monopoly on the stock market, but will not find a price balance if it is not widespread. in terms of usage, many large investors are aware and choose not to accumulate just to buy bitcoin.

The market will cease to exist. But this is a priori impossible, because it makes no sense. Unless there is for someone any sense to buy for example in Kazakhstan all tenge? Another value can have a significant purchase of an asset, such as D. Soros bought the pound, and then brought it down and bought again.

I think that's crazy. if someone buys all the existing btc then who will buy back and maybe the btc will die

If it really happens then there will become the shortage of bitcoin and the price of bitcoin start rising as it will continue till it become available in the market.

it is not possible for a single person to buy  up the whole of bitcoin. several people coming together to purchase or sell Btc Makes the market interesting and competitive and that is why more people are coming to invest in  it.

It seems you are overdoing it. How can anyone buy bitcoin all of them. If that happens maybe there will be no other transactions, and surely the price of bitcoin will decrease. But I don't think that will happen. No one might buy all available bitcoins. That's just my opinion.

Just the way one individual cannot buy up the whole Gold  globally, BTC  is a digital currency on demand  by alot of  investors that believe in the currency and are ready to keep investing, with this in  place an individual migth just hold a high stake, those are called whales who have impact in the space.

He wouldn't have to purchase every one of them. On the off chance that his buying streak drives costs up so high, or so quick, that no one will offer them or utilize them, at that point for every single commonsense reason, bitcoin is dead. A cash with no current isn't.

Some questions outrightly are dumb. If you know how much there is to mine, you wouldn't even ever think of attempting that. Get it straight! Bitcoin's price is a rollercoaster for anyone to think of attempting it.

Well, this person would probably after such an investment terribly rich, because the demand will be with him just unreal, and this probably just can not happen as we would not want it.

If someone bought up all the existing bitcoins,  the price of bitcoin would so much expensive. Bitcoin would be something scarce. Or it could be that there would be another coin which replaces bitcoin.

current market cap of bitcoin is around $110 billion ::) :o
if someone to buy 50%-75% and assuming the price stays the same, that will cost him ~$60-80 billion
but that will not be the case, that much money thrown into market in short time would surely create sudden price increase
that much buying spree will doubled... tripled... bitcoin price or even more,
so definitely cost than $100 billion to buy up 50% of existing bitcoins
and for someone to do that he needs to be one of the top 10 wealthiest billionaires 8) :-*

Nice question and nice if it happens. I would sell one portion of my last coin for 10000000000............ dollars and another potion for 999999999999........ dollars ;D ;D. It is impossible for one to buy all the existing bitcoins. That is how it is created. It is always a chain. Do not think the nonsense. Involve in it and earn with ease.

Obviously, he wants to also have the power to manipulate.

Just to remind you that bitcoin price has ups and downs so if it will have a correction then people who already sold their bitcoin will surely buy back. So how come it will die if there's a huge demand?

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OP shouldn't go all in one certain price as the price is really a roller coaster ride, don't be a FOMO just because this is the trend instead know the risk in every aspect of investing.

That will be the news of the century. Have you also thought about if that pers9n buys all, what will be the sense when you have noother peron to trade with later on because you have all. Every other person will be with fiat and that person will alone be handling bitcoin, like where is the sense in that?

Therefore even the most ambitious buyers will not be able to buy all the bitcoins that are present today. However, this situation does not indicate that the market is not vulnerable to price manipulation; still does not require a lot of money to move the market price up or down, so so far Bitcoin is still classified as a volatile asset.

That does not seem possible even David Gates do not have the intention of buying all the bitcoins even if he can afford it. I don't see any reason why someone would do that. Besides, I don't think it's gonna help the movements of the markets if there is only one person with bitcoins. If I were you, I would not worry about something that does not exist.

Even its impossible to bought all existing Bitcoin by someone then wait for someone to trade their Bitcoin or find other have potential coin to buy. So I suggest if you can afford to buy BTC then grab that opportunity because Bitcoin is really profit even its having falling price sometimes. Or if you have Bitcoin right now them keep it for long term because surely ot will grow its price.

hello,

Finally not so strange question because it is really interesting to think about it and made a lot of comments.

Of course it is impossible to buy all of them, by value, but also by feasability because there will always be lost or impossible to buy.

Let's dream if it is possible I would surely be kind for the buyer and keep my BTC to the moon :D

If that happens there will be no other deal, and certainly the bitcoin price will decrease. That's just my opinion. In a way that an individual can not buy all the gold around the globe, BTC is the digital currency required by many investors to believe in money and be willing to continue investing.

Buying up all the bitcoin by one fellow sounds really funny and i find quite impossible now here is why?
There are new bitcoins continually entering circulation by way of mining and i read that, there are bitcoins in cold storage that are not available for sale,.

I do not think that there is a person who is willing to spend a lot of money on such an unstable currency as bitcoin. Moreover, not all the coins have been mined, and some have already been lost.

I think once all of the bitcoins have been bought in the circulation, if there is still a demand for bitcoins, then you will have the complete control of the price per bitcoin. You can set the price and sell the bitcoin at whatever price you want. Therefore, you control the market for bitcoins by monopolizing it.

For me, it is possible if the bitcoin drops to its lowest price. If anyone can afford to buy bitcoin and anyone can buy many as they can afford. Bitcoin can't run out depends on how many people will buy. In the market, today bitcoin is still on the ground of its lowest price. So many of the investors still buying for the bitcoin individually because of inflation of price.

The whales have been already holding the majority of Bitcoins. Naturally, it gives them all the chances to manipulate the market prices. However, I do not think that a single person will ever buy all BTC.

In fact, to buy all the existing bitcoins will need too much money. One person will not be able to do this because it will take too many resources to accomplish this mission. It's impossible. But I agree that a very large number of bitcoins belong now to a small number of people. I think that this should not be so.

There are 21 million Bitcoin in existence with only a few mined. The concept of one person buying all existing Bitcoin is not feasible because all existing Bitcoin is not in one depository where an individual can walk in and purchase all. Bitcoin is suppose to circulate in order to fulfill its goal as a currency.

more precisely, bitcoin can be controlled by a group of people in a conspiracy. but it still does not exceed 40% because the distribution of bitcoin is evenly distributed

Currency is always synonymous with political affiliation, if one day bitcoin is legalized, then we can predict what will happen if there is a group in their country that has bitcoin at a 15-20% ratio, in my opinion, full decentralization is not entirely good for the future financial and real business.

It is more possible that a cow to enter the needle hole than this stupidity happens,more than half of bitcoin are being owned and for those holder to sell their precious coin might be $100,000-1,000,000 things that for sure cannot be afford by single individual or even a company so stop dreaming and prepare your dinner maybe thats a cause of hunger

But if this happens ,i will quit this market since for sure this will be manipulated as one man or team will handle all the bitcoin in circulation