Who holds the most bitcoins?

[iram3130]

I have wondered exactly opposite of this.

Can we estimate how many bitcoins are lost..? I think it will be more than the top holder of Bitcoin.

[FaithInCrypto]

I don't know but every time I see topics like this I don't know how to exactly react. We don't even know who exactly is Satoshi Nakamoto so how are we supposed to know who owns the most bitcoins on Earth? Don't want to sound negative but I do hope there's a legit list or something to know who owns the most Bitcoins so we know how much is left and how many are lost and if there's a way to retrieve them so it won't be a waste.

[figmentofmyass]

I have wondered exactly opposite of this.

Can we estimate how many bitcoins are lost..? I think it will be more than the top holder of Bitcoin.

in late 2017, chainalysis estimated that somewhere between 2.78 million and 3.79 million BTC are lost forever. https://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/

it's been 2 years since then, so it's probably safe to say the number is moderately higher now. 20% of the supply (~3.5-4 million BTC) is probably a reasonable estimate based on the studies i've seen.

[bitcampaign]

if satoshi holds the most bitcoin, why is more frightening is news about hacked bitcoins and ponzi schemes, what should be scarier is satoshi nakamoto who holds a lot of bitcoin, but why doesn't he drop the price of bitcoin at all, this is a little weird in my opinion, I know some of the big names that hold a lot of bitcoin, I'm sure they haven't sold it cheaply under $ 10k

[MURONDI]

maybe the biggest bitcoin holder is satoshi nakamoto, no one knows for sure the most bitcoin holders, in my opinion the largest bitcoin is held by the community not individuals, unfortunately coinmarketcap only provides data about altcoin not the holder data, 

[Bet1Coin]

On the same topic, I'm looking for information on how bitcoins are distributed by

1/ country
2/ population age/genre/etc

Do you guys have references of studies talking about it?

[ragavancoin]

We know how powerful bitcoin is especially in making transactions in the market anonymous, we don't even know if they still hodl that huge amount of bitcoin. But some personalities that you've mentioned for me I think is not really having that much volume. I know that the creator of the company bit instant is one of the huge hodlers of bitcoin based from the documentaries that I've watched, in addition, with regards to how much bitcoin satoshi has, there is no clear evidence that will prove it. Imagine, if you are the creator of the worlds leading currency technology, would you tell the world how much you have? absolutely not.

Absolutely no one will tell the world how much Bitcoin they hold, as it is not safe to disclose how much bitcoin they have. It is not that easy to predict also, even though its a digital world  can't find Bitcoin address that easily. Gonna be frustrated by searching. First and foremost nobody Knows who is Satoshi is and how did they come to know so much bitcoin he holds ? Just through google ,internet Satoshi never told anywhere that he owns that much Bitcoin as he never revealed about himself.

[abel1337]

On the same topic, I'm looking for information on how bitcoins are distributed by

1/ country
2/ population age/genre/etc

Do you guys have references of studies talking about it?

There are many sources on the internet about it, You will just find it.

If you are finding a piece of exact information, It's hard to determine if it is legitimate especially that not everyone is showing their own assets and not everyone is admitting that they are holding some bitcoin, Survey test can be true to real statistics but I'm sure that it is only conducted in a slow scale.

This is one of the statistics that I found on the internet
https://www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com/how-many-people-use-bitcoin/

[bitvalak]

The most obvious bitcoin holder is Satoshi. With everything he has done for bitcoin so far, I'm sure he will use the rest of his assets to do the best for the welfare of cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin.
He has good goals for this environment, but there are some people who try to fake it.

[imstillthebest]

The most obvious bitcoin holder is Satoshi. With everything he has done for bitcoin so far,

that would be the thoughts of others too but am i the only one that think that satoshi himself dont own bitcoins ?

 he only creates it but he does not have a special treatment to have instant bitcoins  . if he wanted to have a bitcoin he will work hard to earn it  but like i said earlier i think didnt have any because his purpose is only for the sake of other people and not by himself  . he is smart so he is already wealthy and he isnt interested to sell btc because this will only contribute to the toxic of the price   .

[marcous]

I'm not sure about the accuracy of the article, is the article creator convinced that the one who holds the most Bitcoin is Satoshi? we never even know who Satoshi really is. Not necessarily true they hold Bitcoin I guess, on the other hand, we have to look for accuracy from other news sources

[tsaroz]

I've always been interested in this question, but I found a lot of confusing information.
I recently came across this article in Quora, and I wonder how accurate and verified this information is: https://www.quora.com/Who-holds-the-most-bitcoins
According to this article, it seems that Satoshi holds the most bitcoins, between 600,000 and 1,600,000 BTC.
The following are the Winklevoss brothers, with 91,666 bitcoin.
Next is Barry Silbert with 48,000 BTC.
Next in order are Tim Draper with $250,000 worth of BTC and Michael Novogratz with his crypto net worth to be around $700 million – $1 billion.
Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

Satoshi definitely has the most bitcoins and they haven't moved for years. Either he knows it's going to be worth more than what it is at current time or he has lost access to it. Whatever may be the reason of Sathoshi's bitcoin not in circulation, it would further decrease the total supply.

[hundredpercent]

December 2015 a Bitcointalk member discovered a puzzle transaction while playing around with his bot:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg13381244#msg13381244
At that time nobody declared such a puzzle transaction which was created January 2015 until the creator of that competition came out 2 years later:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg18765941#msg18765941
As of 01/10/2019 there are still more than 100 BTC to win. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166284.0

We think that the early mined coins of Satoshi are also a prize competition and that Satoshi is waiting this coins to be moved. We also think that he will not respond after somebody moves the first coins but it will be a message to the Bitcoin community that the private keys are somehow on the blockchain. If Satoshi disagreed with that conclusion he would have moved the coins to other addresses.

Re: Maybe Satoshi created the greatest prize competition https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5150688.0

Everyone could.

[Fatunad]

maybe the biggest bitcoin holder is satoshi nakamoto, no one knows for sure the most bitcoin holders, in my opinion the largest bitcoin is held by the community not individuals, unfortunately coinmarketcap only provides data about altcoin not the holder data, 

What do you mean community? Like bitcointalk community? The biggest btc holder are group of individuals or as they call it the whales who is trying to manipulate the market. Cryptocurrency exchange too are one of the biggest btc holder. Satoshi is long gone and he might not need btc anymore because the success of his creation is more than the worth of all btc in circulation today.

[Slow death]

I've always been interested in this question, but I found a lot of confusing information.
I recently came across this article in Quora, and I wonder how accurate and verified this information is: https://www.quora.com/Who-holds-the-most-bitcoins
According to this article, it seems that Satoshi holds the most bitcoins, between 600,000 and 1,600,000 BTC.
The following are the Winklevoss brothers, with 91,666 bitcoin.
Next is Barry Silbert with 48,000 BTC.
Next in order are Tim Draper with $250,000 worth of BTC and Michael Novogratz with his crypto net worth to be around $700 million – $1 billion.
Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

In the internet world is full of scammers and hackers, exposing the amount of bitcoin that someone has does not seem very smart to me, so I wonder why the Winklevoss brothers bought bitcoin and did not keep their mouths shut? why did they have to share with everyone that they have a lot of bitcoins? are they looking for fame?

The 8 Biggest Bitcoin Players Who Could Make a Fortune Off the Cryptocurrency
( October 30, 2017)

so who is the guy who has the most bitcoins in 2019?

[killerfrost]

I've always been interested in this question, but I found a lot of confusing information.
I recently came across this article in Quora, and I wonder how accurate and verified this information is: https://www.quora.com/Who-holds-the-most-bitcoins
According to this article, it seems that Satoshi holds the most bitcoins, between 600,000 and 1,600,000 BTC.
The following are the Winklevoss brothers, with 91,666 bitcoin.
Next is Barry Silbert with 48,000 BTC.
Next in order are Tim Draper with $250,000 worth of BTC and Michael Novogratz with his crypto net worth to be around $700 million – $1 billion.
Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

We don't have a specific statistic, so we can't know exactly who owns the most Bitcoin right now. But there are rumors that Satoshi has the most bitcoins with more than 1 million bitcoins, and that bitcoins have never been moved, maybe that wallet key has been lost forever

[plvbob0070]

it is amazing. those people have already surpassed the wealth that everyone expects. I don't think they need to work anymore, and just need to reinvest their bitcoin ...

In the real world, even the rich person keeps on doing their work and they keep on earning money. I don't have any idea for the person who has a lot of bitcoin in their wallet or account but based on what I read in here in the forum they think that the founder of bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto have millions of bitcoin. But, whoever the person who has the biggest amount of bitcoin he/she is very amazing because we all know everybody wants to have bitcoin.

[BeManga]

I've always been interested in this question, but I found a lot of confusing information.
I recently came across this article in Quora, and I wonder how accurate and verified this information is: https://www.quora.com/Who-holds-the-most-bitcoins
According to this article, it seems that Satoshi holds the most bitcoins, between 600,000 and 1,600,000 BTC.
The following are the Winklevoss brothers, with 91,666 bitcoin.
Next is Barry Silbert with 48,000 BTC.
Next in order are Tim Draper with $250,000 worth of BTC and Michael Novogratz with his crypto net worth to be around $700 million – $1 billion.
Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

as for the top bitcoin holder, it must be satoshi the creator of bitcoin
until now all the early mined coin he owned is not moving and we don't know whether he is dead or alive
as for the other, it's not really accurate some of them are reported to sell some of their bitcoin
as for the seized bitcoin by police, it was reported that they already auction the bitcoin

[nreal]

It is not surprising that Satoshi holds the most bitcoins since he mined them from day one. And the rest of their positions may not be accurate because we cannot be sure how much bitcoins they are holding.

[Aikidoka]

That's interesting, I mean, that's obvious if Satoshi get the highest amount of bitcoin because he was the owner and the creator of bitcoin, and the following people who are holding a lot of bitcoin are owning really a huge amount of bitcoin. I think there's probably more people who hold a lot, which they're not mentioned in this article, like probably people from Darknet or just big companies.