https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68434579That's an interesting graph... and to be honest a nice read too.. after long time some facts and actual stuff that talks about bitcoin.
Bitcoins lost forever 2.4m (11%), according to report an estimate suggest between three million to as many as six million may be have been lost forever.
A loose estimate that's often agreed upon is 3.5 million.
In the same article while discussing Cryptocurrency exchanges its mentioned that exchanges act like banks and there's a warning too, leaving your coins on an exchange can go wrong though.
Most interesting is "
Unknown whales", A Bitcoin whale is someone who holds more than 10,000 bitcoins in their digital wallet.
A loose estimate is that large whales account for about 8% of all bitcoins.
8% that's far less what I used to think... and I remember how it was used to be reported that how whales control the price... this has been proved wrong.
Last coins "
Yet to be mined", There are
still only about 7% of coins yet to be mined.
People, 50% of all bitcoins are held by the general public about 10.5m bitcoins. River estimated that Bitcoin had 81.7 million users as of June 2023, or 1% of the global population.
Lastly there's a very important point, that this latest surge in the value of Bitcoin is not coming because individual retail investors , Analysts say whales like the big banks are pushing up price and demand. Yes that's true you can only imagine what happens when retail investors turns to bitcoin? Remember still on 1% of global population is holding bitcoin what if that percentage turns 10%?