How much are the BTC users?

Hi,
The subject is saying it. I am wandering how much are the BTC users right now and how much new ones are joinning the community daily? Is there a way to say it in strict numbers?
BR

I'm a little confused at what you're requesting. The number of people who are using/sending Bitcoin or users signing up/joining this forum community?

You can see some Bitcoin stats here: https://blockchain.info/stats
And there are some forum stats here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

It's probably not really possible to see how many new users are getting into Bitcoin directly, but you could look at the number of transactions etc.

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 31, 2014, 09:25:51 AM

I mean i want to know the exact number of BTC users not the forum members here.
Thanks for the links anyway

You'll never be able to know how many actual users there are but you can find out how many transactions are taking place etc.

We don't know the exact users of bitcoin but I saw thread some where how many users In % own 10, 100, 1000 bitcoins and so on I think It was said that 60% of bitcoins are owned just by few 10's people and all the major amount of users has very little amount of bitcoins but as I said I read that somewhere but don't really remember where so I can't guarantee that It's true statement.

It's really hard to even guess how big is the community, and how much growth there is. Forum account count is not a good indicator, not even activity. Maybe bitcoin transaction number, but no necessarily.

Quote from: gondel on May 31, 2014, 08:40:09 AM

Hi,
The subject is saying it. I am wandering how much are the BTC users right now and how much new ones are joinning the community daily? Is there a way to say it in strict numbers?
BR

Here we go, stats from 20/05 to 30/05:

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block# 301808 20/05/2014 num %noOut %dead %of tot %of act diff prev value %noOut %vdead %TotVal diff prev
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= 0 33479095 0.00% 0.00% 92.0257% 103384 0.00000 0.00% 0.00% 0.0000% 0.00000
= 1 satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) 403556 38.62% 8.88% 1.1093% 13.91% -3 0.00404 38.62% 8.88% 0.0000% -0.00000
> 1 satoshi <= 0.001 BTC ( ~1$ ) 1042846 81.82% 25.95% 2.8665% 35.95% 2053 223.73373 75.90% 8.55% 0.0017% 0.65211
> 0.001 BTC <= 0.1 BTC 884313 71.60% 7.85% 2.4308% 30.48% -2497 18517.80031 72.47% 11.71% 0.1448% -45.40620
> 0.1 BTC <= 1 BTC 301267 70.13% 7.29% 0.8281% 10.38% -113 138261.65799 75.46% 9.27% 1.0808% -28.20954
> 1 BTC <= 5 BTC 127307 68.57% 7.05% 0.3499% 4.39% 85 309653.53188 70.34% 7.45% 2.4206% 207.50965
> 5 BTC <= 10 BTC 37784 71.90% 6.75% 0.1039% 1.30% 101 291811.52830 73.89% 6.79% 2.2811% 829.27151
> 10 BTC <= 25 BTC 29152 69.81% 7.27% 0.0801% 1.00% 46 482515.20799 71.12% 7.48% 3.7718% 538.54443
> 25 BTC <= 50 BTC 52377 92.25% 70.51% 0.1440% 1.81% 8 2391904.43281 93.95% 76.70% 18.6976% 139.45406
> 50 BTC <= 75 BTC 4906 69.96% 15.00% 0.0135% 0.17% -3 293047.40777 69.40% 13.61% 2.2908% -320.56270
> 75 BTC <= 100 BTC 6978 85.83% 6.10% 0.0192% 0.24% -7 663805.02895 86.78% 6.12% 5.1890% -606.08283
> 100 BTC <= 500 BTC 7882 68.42% 6.62% 0.0217% 0.27% 2 1749492.07996 70.23% 7.53% 13.6759% -1255.79096
> 500 btc <= 1000 BTC 1483 75.05% 6.27% 0.0041% 0.05% -11 1147709.55735 77.10% 6.55% 8.9717% -10026.02733
> 1000 BTC 1217 69.43% 7.07% 0.0033% 0.04% 5 5305605.50121 69.75% 4.09% 41.4742% 14991.62764
   Total Actives 2901068 70.78% 15.52% 7.9743% 100.00% -334 12792547.47197 76.10% 19.02% 100.0000% 4424.97985
   Total 36380163 5.64% 1.24% 100.0000% 103050 12792547.47197 76.10% 19.02% 100.0000% 4424.97985
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block# 303406 30/05/2014 num %noOut %dead %of tot %of act diff prev value %noOut %vdead %TotVal diff prev
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= 0 34305367 0.00% 0.00% 92.0944% 72442 0.00000 0.00% 0.00% 0.0000% 0.00000
= 1 satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) 403075 38.67% 8.89% 1.0821% 13.69% 5 0.00403 38.67% 8.89% 0.0000% 0.00000
> 1 satoshi <= 0.001 BTC ( ~1$ ) 1058873 81.70% 25.55% 2.8426% 35.96% 1989 229.25357 75.77% 8.34% 0.0018% 0.68768
> 0.001 BTC <= 0.1 BTC 910893 71.67% 7.62% 2.4453% 30.93% 1863 19021.85053 72.13% 11.40% 0.1482% 47.85654
> 0.1 BTC <= 1 BTC 301817 70.07% 7.27% 0.8102% 10.25% 521 138838.28772 75.39% 9.22% 1.0819% 152.48390
> 1 BTC <= 5 BTC 127572 68.72% 7.03% 0.3425% 4.33% 368 310668.59631 70.50% 7.42% 2.4210% 948.36611
> 5 BTC <= 10 BTC 37953 71.97% 6.70% 0.1019% 1.29% 108 293411.33572 73.97% 6.74% 2.2865% 844.33569
> 10 BTC <= 25 BTC 29531 69.94% 7.16% 0.0793% 1.00% 130 489490.87922 71.32% 7.35% 3.8145% 2368.08420
> 25 BTC <= 50 BTC 52592 92.34% 70.21% 0.1412% 1.79% -8 2398767.63200 94.01% 76.46% 18.6929% -802.23555
> 50 BTC <= 75 BTC 4974 69.38% 14.78% 0.0134% 0.17% 0 297308.79665 68.86% 13.40% 2.3168% -45.14269
> 75 BTC <= 100 BTC 7007 85.87% 6.04% 0.0188% 0.24% -15 666620.75914 86.83% 6.05% 5.1948% -1309.17180
> 100 BTC <= 500 BTC 7879 68.22% 6.60% 0.0212% 0.27% 20 1745613.46867 70.08% 7.53% 13.6031% 7352.74682
> 500 btc <= 1000 BTC 1464 75.82% 6.28% 0.0039% 0.05% -11 1134157.71602 77.98% 6.58% 8.8382% -7452.86653
> 1000 BTC 1215 69.71% 7.08% 0.0033% 0.04% 4 5338368.70376 71.80% 4.07% 41.6004% 2069.84056
   Total Actives 2944845 70.85% 15.28% 7.9056% 100.00% 4974 12832497.28305 77.02% 18.95% 100.0000% 4174.98493
   Total 37250212 5.60% 1.21% 100.0000% 77416 12832497.28305 77.02% 18.95% 100.0000% 4174.98493

num : number of addresses in this range of balance
%noOut : percentage of active addresses WITHOUT out operations
%dead : percentage of active addresses with input and output operations prior to 2012
%of tot : percentage of the TOTAL number addresses
%of act : percentage of the number of addresses with zero balance (active)
diff prev: number variation compared to the previous table
%noOut : % value transactions WITHOUT output ( % value of range)
%vdead : % operations value prev 2012 ( % value of range))
%TotVal : % value of this range compared to the total value
diff prev: change in value compared to the previous table

Credits to: gbianchi bitcointalk.org

Quote from: oureptsC on May 31, 2014, 12:47:10 PM

How can you say in % how much BTC users have certain amount of coins and how you cannot say how much exactly are the people who have coins. About the forum accounts..there is no way to say how much accounts some people have. I am sure there are a lot of scammers developing a lot of different accounts hoping to scam someone.
BR

Hey DolanDuck,
I really dont understand this table clearly

0.001 BTC <= 0.1 BTC 910893
Its saying maybe 900 thousand accounts exist with 0.1 btc in them and so on.

It doesnt really work as so many people dont hold an account on the blockchain. There are with places like gox for a proxy so we'll never know that easily.

Over a thousand people with 1000 btc, I dont believe that. That'd be alot of millionaires, I think that is actually businesses and collections of people. I think forum accounts is more accurate even with dead or fake ones
300k bitcoin users worldwide on a regular basis would be impressive enough

Both blockchain.info and coinbase announced some time ago that they have more than 1 million accounts.

But, more important, the most popular bitcoin wallet was already downloaded 5,4 million times.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/stats/timeline?dates=2008-11-09+to+2014-05-30

Many people downloaded it several times, other never installed it, but also many bitcoiners never downloaded the wallet and just used online ones.

I would say it's fair to consider that there are at least 1 million bitcoiners, possible as much as 2 million.

I think we can assume there are more than two, perhaps, even more than three. Roll Eyes

My point being, we can not identify a precise number, but with the data that exists, we can project a minimal number with some confidence. 1 million is my minimal number, taking in account the 5 million downloads.

Since many people use multiple wallets, it's hard to know how many users there are.

At best, a very rough estimation can be made.

The total number of users is impossible to know, so the next best thing is to check for total activity. In other words the amount of bitcoin being moved between addresses on a given time interval. But even this has to be corrected a little because some of the transactions may be a single user moving between two of his own wallets.

Quote from: zimmah on June 01, 2014, 12:22:57 AM

This is true, however I read something on the forums that estimated the number of BTC users to be roughly 6 million

You can see this news on www.blockchain.info/stats

People that use BTC is so much, and this number is increasing every day

It's no use looking at the stats and trying to understand why, it's like looking at my thread and trying to understand why it has over 30,000 views, trust me, it's not worth the headache Tongue

I think the only way you can genuinely tell if somebody real is on the other side is if you have stats where they're interacting with things for instance, downloads and sales are fairly reliable, sales more so, because that means someone real has put money down for a product etc.

There are too many factors like bots, VPN's, people using different computers, spammers etc. to be able to properly account for what's going on when it comes to view counts and such, registering for example can easily be spoofed by bots.

Quote from: Gianluca95 on June 14, 2014, 11:39:16 PM

You can see this news on www.blockchain.info/stats

People that use BTC is so much, and this number is increasing every day

This site will not actually tell you how many people use bitcoin, but rather the details of BTC transactions and the network.