About a month ago, there was a discussion that mentioned that there are a TON of addresses that have 50 Bitcoins in them, and that 50 BTC was the most (or second most) common balance (possibly second to 1 satoshi balances).
Can anybody direct me to that thread, or get me the stats on that?
Here are the specific figures I am looking for:
- How many Addresses have exactly 50 BTC?
- How many Addresses have received the block award (50 or 25 BTC, plus fees), and have not had any outbound transactions.
It was in the Bitcoin rich list:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92423.20At that moment, there were 40,631 addresses with 50 BTC on it. It was the most common amount, only outnumbered by empty addresses. It would be difficult to determine how many of these are lost forever or still active, because I can imagine many early adopters, including Satoshi himself, never bothered to transfer the bitcoins to other addresses but still own the keys nonetheless.