These articles miss the point. They're calling addresses people. This would be the equivalent of saying 90+% of all US dollars are owned by 100 people (probably fewer), because BANKS are the ones holding the dollars for the vast majority of all currency.
A huge number of those stockpiles are likely wallets for exchanges.
this.
please stop posting these bullshit articles that don't understand bitcoins.
addresses != people
Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-of-the-bitcoins-2013-12#ixzz2nD5uj8JZI am afraid you are incorrect, but it is not your fault. Almost no one cares to read
the original, which the BI article was based on.
The intent of this thread is to find out and update the statistic on how bitcoins as investment/holdings are distributed according to the size of actual holding (note that this differs from the
largest addresses -list).
That is the
first sentence in the OP of the thread. Hilarious