Who holds the most bitcoins?

[carlzec]

Exchange can have the most bitcoins. Because they're the ones that set the price. Because where does bitcoin showcase? It doesn't matter if the bitcoin quantity is too high. If everyone wants to sell their bitcoins, the price will drop. The important thing is how many people will store bitcoin for many more years.

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[yohananaomi]

Exchange can have the most bitcoins. Because they're the ones that set the price. Because where does bitcoin showcase? It doesn't matter if the bitcoin quantity is too high. If everyone wants to sell their bitcoins, the price will drop. The important thing is how many people will store bitcoin for many more years.

actually anyone can save bitcoin but I also agree with you that exchange also holds bitcoin. they do it with the aim of looking for profit when they consider bitcoin to be sold and can be profitable. no one is storing bitcoin with the goal of losing it can be ascertained therefore it is natural that bitcoin will go down if bitcoin flows a lot in the market.

[karanggatak]

I don't think anyone knows for sure who owns the most bitcoin? because maybe in this world there are people who have a lot of bitcoin that we don't know or he has died and no one can access his bitcoin and maybe satoshi is the owner of the most bitcoin because he was the one who created bitcoin and did the first mining. all possibilities can happen to bitcoin. and anonymous bitcoin is very difficult to track.

[Eugenar]

I don't think anyone knows for sure who owns the most bitcoin? because maybe in this world there are people who have a lot of bitcoin that we don't know or he has died and no one can access his bitcoin and maybe satoshi is the owner of the most bitcoin because he was the one who created bitcoin and did the first mining. all possibilities can happen to bitcoin. and anonymous bitcoin is very difficult to track.

For this reason would it be better if we write a note concerning about "what ifs" we die and for them to figure out that we have some asset? Because I do really believe most of us here have our families don't really into cryptocurrencies as well as ours, so, my idea is to have some notes about our assets and tell them on that note to talk about our friend we trusted the most to open our accounts so they can have the balance we left.

Though, for me the best way for them to know is to directly tell them, and might as well to teach them to use cryptocurrencies as well.

[f2f.mirrors]

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?

Don't forget Jihan Wu,Bitmain founder.

[robertmwalser]

It's been estimated by several that as much as forty % of all possible bitcoins are actually lost.. lost keys, accidentally erased hard drives. People actually dying without passing on the secret keys etc. and really in the beginning when it very first began and couple of had been mining many just were never saved while first work on the software program was underway. Every bitcoin which actually was and can be remains on the blockchain though forty % are just unusable. So I say the best bitcoin is actually owned and operated by no one. Strangely this doesn't harm bitcoin really. You are able to believe, in a sense, each lost bitcoin can make the remaining ones worth a little more. Many people believe that the bitcoin author has a million or perhaps so but those coins haven't moved so they're most likely lost. The sole influence it has as far as I could see will be the true market capitalization is actually in error as there are actually much less than assumed (effective ones) which could boost the volatility once the whales buy and market huge quantities. read more....

[ashmodeus]

~snip

so far i know just :
1. Satoshi
2. FBI
3. Micree Zhan
4. Jihan Wu
5. Charlie Sherem
6. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss ( The Twins )
7. Tim Draper
8. Barry Silbert

and recently i hear coinbase also have a huge number of BTC holding , around 800k BTC on their cold storage . also binance have around 400k BTC.
however , there almost 35-40% from total supply total btc of lost forever.

[Oneandpure]

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?

But we don't now with Satoshi and he looks like ghost without knowing by any one else in crypto world,  I think if any one have know him maybe bad and terrible thing will happen with him because he saves many bitcoin in his wallet, if I been in Satoshi postion I will hidden my self because many people will try to now whit us and trying for hacked our assets.

[f2f.mirrors]

~snip

so far i know just :
1. Satoshi
2. FBI
3. Micree Zhan
4. Jihan Wu
5. Charlie Sherem
6. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss ( The Twins )
7. Tim Draper
8. Barry Silbert

and recently i hear coinbase also have a huge number of BTC holding , around 800k BTC on their cold storage . also binance have around 400k BTC.
however , there almost 35-40% from total supply total btc of lost forever.

Many of the coins on the exchange don't belong to them.

[kaya11]

Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

The answer is coming from a guy who said "My Top List" so maybe it's his personal list quite not be accurate? You can easily find out which addresses hold the most bitcoin than their actual identity. I personally found this very disappointing,

It has been estimated by some that up to 40 percent of all possible bitcoins are lost.. lost keys, accidentally erased hard drives.

So the current market just runs on 60% of the bitcoins? Not sure if that information is accurate as well.

That is also what I am thinking, since it is hard to know who's bitcoin wallet is whose we can't really say that it is a fact. Unless someone proves it on their own, sending proofs and showing themselves unto the public, but I guess that is dangerous to them in security.

[Shakreen]

I think every person has the right to claim they have information about who is the highest winner of BITCOIN But in my opinion they won't tell you how much they have bitcoin ...
Why?  individually maybe they don't want to be too publicly released, maybe another reason they are afraid of being taxed well we know that some countries have started taxing bitcoin and I think it's natural to remember the very rapid development of bitcoin

[f2f.mirrors]

Do you agree with this assessment from the article or do you have more credible and accurate information?

The answer is coming from a guy who said "My Top List" so maybe it's his personal list quite not be accurate? You can easily find out which addresses hold the most bitcoin than their actual identity. I personally found this very disappointing,

It has been estimated by some that up to 40 percent of all possible bitcoins are lost.. lost keys, accidentally erased hard drives.

So the current market just runs on 60% of the bitcoins? Not sure if that information is accurate as well.

That is also what I am thinking, since it is hard to know who's bitcoin wallet is whose we can't really say that it is a fact. Unless someone proves it on their own, sending proofs and showing themselves unto the public, but I guess that is dangerous to them in security.

I guess the missing Bitcoin about 3m-4m.

[Edraket31]

I think every person has the right to claim they have information about who is the highest winner of BITCOIN But in my opinion they won't tell you how much they have bitcoin ...
Why?  individually maybe they don't want to be too publicly released, maybe another reason they are afraid of being taxed well we know that some countries have started taxing bitcoin and I think it's natural to remember the very rapid development of bitcoin

It is for their own security, if they don't want to disclose how much Bitcoin they are holding at then it is their choice and we cannot force them to tell it and they are not oblige to tell those information to us too, so I don't see anything wrong for that, whether they are lying or not, it doesn't matter at all, what we should matter is what we are holding on our own.

[cutesgirl]

Exchange can have the most bitcoins. Because they're the ones that set the price. Because where does bitcoin showcase? It doesn't matter if the bitcoin quantity is too high. If everyone wants to sell their bitcoins, the price will drop. The important thing is how many people will store bitcoin for many more years.

Exactly exchange have many bitcoin because almost investor keep holding their assets between altcoin and bitcoin on exchange account, how ever when market make suspend for withdrawing they have many bitcoin in their account and can make price of bitcoin with higher and lower price, other side some time when exchange hacked they got many bitcoin.

[qubitasic]

I think Satoshi knew about Quantum computing but he thought they're not coming any time soon yet still they're not in existence. And someday even if the quantum computers are active the bitcoin developers can actually implement another form of security to bypass them. People also get better with time just like computers do.

If he knew about Quantum computing, then he also knew that some day the early mined coins will be moved. And he didn't move these coins.

That means

2. Satoshi created the greatest prize competition and the privatekeys are somehow within the blockchain. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5150688.0

and privatekeys are somehow within the blockchain = quantum computer?

The first quantum computer owner holds the most Bitcoins.

[Jocuserious]

I don't have completely any information about it but most number holder in exchange i think many biggest investors don't want show their amount. I think so this is their own secority process but personally i take small already.

[carlzec]

My clearest point is this. Traders with a very large number of bitcoins do not disclose themselves. Because having a bitcoin is a risky situation. Even small investors need to protect themselves. The most bitcoin can be Satoshi: d

[putukin]

Me.  I own the most bitcoins.  Prove me wrong?

Nice joke. It is probably wrong. You will be quite busy to trade your Bitcoin if you have the most. I've checked your post history, your current posts were not in economics or trading discussion, so it means you are not monitoring the market trends. This makes me doubt that you are one of the people holding the most Bitcoin.

However, I think your intention is to make us aware that no one knows who is holding the most Bitcoins. Am I wrong?    

Wake up! You're probably out of your mind. How can you earn the most bitcoin? Can you tell us how? So that we can believe in you. You're a joker. You just want to test if we know who have the most bitcoins. Now, we can't tell who has the most.

It is impossible for you to have the most because your post aren't related to the topic about bitcoin. I checked your profile.

Don't take monkey fuss so seriously. They simply decided to test the patience of the community, made such a stupid conversation. I’m sure that people with the largest amount of Bitcoin do not express themselves in this way.

[Polar91]

It’s really hard to say that who holds most bitcoin.I saw a website there was few address who holds that amount bitcoin.But finding that person is really hard.Your statement might be wrong, finding the address owner is really hard.Can you prove that I am not holding bitcoin or I am in the bitcoin richlists.         

To make it in particular, the sites that holds most bitcoin are the sites who has bitcoin with the highest transactions and this is the exchanges no matter decentralized or not, but with the needs of liquidity, they have bitcoin pool so everyone could have the chance to sell or buy even enormous amount of bitcoin. I believe these bitcoins are stored in one address that is fully secured, and intended only for trading pool for the users of the exchange.

[shoreno]

Me.  I own the most bitcoins.  Prove me wrong?

Nice joke. It is probably wrong. You will be quite busy to trade your Bitcoin if you have the most. I've checked your post history, your current posts were not in economics or trading discussion, so it means you are not monitoring the market trends. This makes me doubt that you are one of the people holding the most Bitcoin.

However, I think your intention is to make us aware that no one knows who is holding the most Bitcoins. Am I wrong?    

Wake up! You're probably out of your mind. How can you earn the most bitcoin? Can you tell us how? So that we can believe in you. You're a joker. You just want to test if we know who have the most bitcoins. Now, we can't tell who has the most.

It is impossible for you to have the most because your post aren't related to the topic about bitcoin. I checked your profile.

Don't take monkey fuss so seriously. They simply decided to test the patience of the community, made such a stupid conversation. I’m sure that people with the largest amount of Bitcoin do not express themselves in this way.

yeah because why would he waste his time here when he is already frickin rich ?  he will only got busy travelling the world and enjoying his life outside the internet .

 the guy hamelton was a pioneer here in this forum and know alot about btc and other technical stuff related to it so i suspect that he already hold some good amount of bitcoins but not the most of course because i think he is still an ordinary person compare to the big btc whales and to the owner satoshi  .