Evidence that bitcoin isn't controlled by a few

[Raoul Duke]

The point is to keep all your funds in one place.
For some ppl it is easier to maintain/secure/backup one BTC address not a thousand.
However it is much easier/safer to receive payments on multiple addresses.

Wallet

[BTCisthefuture]

Its certainly is a few people who own a large % of bitcoins.  Now doubt about that.  This is the nature of nearly any commodity or anything involving money.

Just the other day the facebook twins came out and said they invested $11milllion dollars into bitcoin back when it was still cheap. It'd be naive to think they aren't the only ones who have done that,  or that the earlier adapters/miners don't have huge stash piles of bitcoin as well.

[calebrulez]

And of-course some of the early miners and "contract" miners have tons of coins too. remember the story where one of the early guys got hacked and lost 55000 coins am sure there are more.