holding bitcoin from early 2010 till today

[crzy]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

It takes a lot of sacrifices to hold bitcoin since then and only true believer will do that and of course have some spare money for his needs. Bitcoin that time was very cheap and only if we can see Bitcoin on that level again, I’m pretty sure everyone will hold at least that kind of amount. If anyone still have that holdings, I salute you for being strong enough not to sold during peak season.

[bryant.coleman]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

I first registered to this forum in 2012 and got my first coins during that time. I still have some coins remaining from that stash. That said, I very rarely come across any of the users from 2010, although 2011/12 is more common. Even those users who have registered back then have sold most of their coins at lower levels and only a minority would have kept their coins as such. And just one correction. Back in Q1/Q2 2010, the exchange rate was $0.001, and not $0.01.

[jaberwock]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

Not entirely sure I think there are lots of addresses that have balance unmoved from 2010, although we don't know if the balance is not moving because someone is holding the coins or it is just because no one has control over the coins anymore. Like a lot of people often say they had a bitcoin wallet installed in their computer but because the value wasn't much back then they left some small amounts and the computer isn't with them anymore. In those cases, the coins are just lost and we might think someone is holding them.

If someone has actually managed to hold the coins for such a long period though, either they are too rich to consider selling them or they are just too good that they predicted the price will be 50k in the coming 10-11 years.

[shoreno]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

Not entirely sure I think there are lots of addresses that have balance unmoved from 2010, although we don't know if the balance is not moving because someone is holding the coins or it is just because no one has control over the coins anymore. Like a lot of people often say they had a bitcoin wallet installed in their computer but because the value wasn't much back then they left some small amounts and the computer isn't with them anymore. In those cases, the coins are just lost and we might think someone is holding them.

If someone has actually managed to hold the coins for such a long period though, either they are too rich to consider selling them or they are just too good that they predicted the price will be 50k in the coming 10-11 years.

or they still own the computer but forgot the access to the wallet because i see this is a common issue for old btc enthusiasts . for the old btc holders that succesfuly have their coins safe and sound until now , they arent consider rich if they dont sell those coins for cash because anytime the value can decrease but salute to thier courage if they dont mind those volatility issues in btc but to predict that btc will be this high hmm that will be questionable unless superhumans does exist.

[Lucius]

What a nice active wallet! I wish I had similar one. But 1000% you are not the only one person who follows it. Course, the Secret Service is doing that as well. Think this wallet can belong to one of the first miners or just some lucky person who get BTC and hodl it for many years.

I don’t follow that wallet, it’s just a piece of information I remembered when I read the question from OP. I don't see why some secret services would be interested in a particular wallet, as far as I know it's not BTC that has anything to do with something illegal - otherwise those coins would already be marked as tainted.

I can’t say where that BTC comes from, it’s possible it’s from mining - or it was bought in the early days when the price was ridiculously low compared to today. Yet even if someone bought 40 000 BTC for just $1 per coin - that was a lot of money 10 years ago - although it very vividly shows us that today 1 BTC is worth more than 40 000 BTC 10 years ago

[el kaka22]

I guess if I bought bitcoin in 2010 and the price moved to over 100 dollars I would have sold all of them already and wouldn't wait to this day. Think about it you bought bitcoin for 1 dollar each, and bought 1000 of them spent 1k dollars in 2010 that would have been an awesome future seeing type of deal and it would be crazy to know what coins would be worth by that time, but if you were brave and crazy enough to spend 1000 dollars on bitcoin in 2010 that means you deserved the profit.

But what we are thinking here is keeping them until it is 50k, I do not think that it will be like that, if it reached 100 dollars that means you would own 100k dollars and who would say no to that? If I bought something for 1k dollars and ended up with even 20k dollars I would probably get out and that is only 20 dollar price, which means waiting for 50k dollars would be impossible for me.

[jasonjm]

If there would be anyone who have hold his Bitcoin for that long since 2010 up until now, then it is really pretty impressive for the fact that imagine after more than 10 years all your patience have been paid off. But I doubt there would be someone who have hold for that long for the fact that there are lots of temptations in the market on when to sell just like the 2017 bull run on which maybe some people who have hold their Bitcoins from 2010 have already sell their Bitcoin by that time or maybe there is also a possibility that they have overcome the temptation to make it through until now, then it is good for them then.

Talking about bitcoin holding for this much amount of time, recently a news came where a bitcoin holder moved his bitcoin from a wallet that was not accessed after 2010. I am imagining the kind of patience the guy have.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-whale-from-2010-moves-100-btc-for-first-time-in-11-years

[mezzaluna]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

I do believe that there are still people who have HODL'ed from that time and still HODLing up to now and all I can say to them is mad respect for having the discipline to not convert/use their saved Bitcoins until now. There were previous news that somebody kept their Bitcoin on a hardware wallet but had a hard time accessing it and that is only one news so we need to imagine every possible situation because somebody must have already done it when it comes to handling Cryptocurrencies.

[bitzizzix]

If anyone had held bitcoin from 2010 to the present, it would be very impressive and very extraordinary and would be a very wealthy person.
The price of bitcoin in 2010 was less than $ 1 per 1 bitcoin which is very cheap and anyone can buy it even in large quantities, and Bitcoin has been performing very well at the end of 2020 to date and it is inconceivable if anyone had bitcoin in 2010 in large quantity and sold it when it touched the latest ATH yesterday.
10 years is a very long time to invest and there will definitely be so many trials to deal with especially in 2017 for the first time the highest bitcoin price of all time.

[Rehan Zakir]

If anyone is holding bitcoin from 2010, he is the luckiest person now a days. Because in 2010, the price of bitcoin is in cents but now one bitcoin is more than to 50000$. so, it is huge difference.  Most of the early holder of bitcoin sell at First time ATH price. There are very few peoples that are have holding bitcoin since 2010.

[Flowzer]

Since many early people bitcoin enthusiast is collecting bitcoin as a hobby and enthusiasm.
I think its possible if someone hold the bitcoin this long by using time capsule and burried the wallet under the soil.

[adzino]

is there someone holding  bitcoin from early 2010   when the price is around 0.01 and still not selling today?    just wondering?

I am sure there are few people out there that are still holding their coins from early 2010 (or maybe had coins, but lost them or forgot about them or maybe even dead ). None of them are probably being vocal since they do not want to attracted unwanted attention. Lucky them I would say. Most of them should be millionaires by now I guess.
Probably there are few wallets that has been posted publicly that shows that they are holding their coins from 2010 (you still won't be able to know if they are holding or lost it).

I am sure its easy (maybe) to track wallets that has been holding coins from 2010?

[so98nn]

This guy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 and maybe some of the early pioneers who left the forum a long time ago.

I doubt someone else would publicly declare it now for privacy and security reasons. It will be an open invitation for hacking and other attacks.

Haha, @Satoshi is good move! But that is the question everyone is looking an answer for! Mr. Satoshi, his existence and his net worth in the bitcoin form. It is still a mystery. Apart from that there are numerous millionaires and billionaires who are holding the bitcoin since then.

I am pretty sure there is no one who never sold their bitcoins because whenever bitcoin had amazing liquidity in between they sold the coins at high prices and bought back when crypto was crushing. So that's a simple phenomenon you can't just resist when you are going to get huge money out of it.

The only possible person who never sold has to be Satoshi and no one else. Greed is bad stuff! 

[Sithara007]

Holding Bitcoin was not easy in 2010. Online wallets such as Blockchain.info were inexistent, and so was the case with lite wallets. Also, back then the software was very prone to crashes and bugs. Moreover, most of the users were ideologically motivated and never cared much about their coins. A lot of them lost their coins when they formatted their laptops or when they lost the private keys as a result of carelessness.

[Snappycoco]

In my country Philippines, someone holds Millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. He was anonymous of course but he shared his picture having his multi-million dollar worth of BTC and he says he holds it from 2013.

[Poker Player]

Some of the regulars on the WO thread have been Hodlers for quite some time, I don't know if since 2010 but I sure know of a few who claim to be holding since not too many years later. You have to think that most people sold. Those who bought at $0.10 and multiplied the investment by 10, 50 or 100 probably sold and only a few visionaries kept holding or made partial sales when the price went up without selling everything.

[Jemzx00]

Holding Bitcoin was not easy in 2010. Online wallets such as Blockchain.info were inexistent, and so was the case with lite wallets. Also, back then the software was very prone to crashes and bugs. Moreover, most of the users were ideologically motivated and never cared much about their coins. A lot of them lost their coins when they formatted their laptops or when they lost the private keys as a result of carelessness.

There were a lot of issue back then which is also the reason why most of the early adopters have not been able to hold unto their coins whether they like or not. If I right, most of the people who have hold and tried to open and bring back their wallets as early as 2015 or 2016 have failed due to various reasons where the common ones are corruption of files and hardware failure. If you think of it, computer hardware and software back then was as good and secured as today.

The only people that I believe to get a hold of their coins from before up until now are the community here at bitcointalk that has been active for a long time. I believe, theymos, still have access to his/her coins today.

In my country Philippines, someone holds Millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. He was anonymous of course but he shared his picture having his multi-million dollar worth of BTC and he says he holds it from 2013.

I'm from Philippines and I haven't heard anything about this. May I know where you have read or watched this, I'm just curious about this as I believe that only Dabs was the only bitcoin pioneer on Philippines. 

[Momoamzad]

Holding bitcoin for a long time not easy task.i think hold is always better .but I don't think anyone who never sold his bitcoin to make money. But if anyone did that today he is the billinior I think.

[shushu9977]

It is impossible to said that how many people hold bitcoin from early 2010 till today. Noone says that I have still a lot of bitcoin. But I think, those people who are founder and co-founder, they hold their bitcoin still today.

[posi]

It is impossible to said that how many people hold bitcoin from early 2010 till today. Noone says that I have still a lot of bitcoin. But I think, those people who are founder and co-founder, they hold their bitcoin still today.

Yes, it impossible to know the number of people who bought Bitcoin in the year 2010 and still holding till now and none of the people that still keep their holding till now will come fore because it never security advice for every cryptocurrency holder to publicize their investment online or in-person to a stranger.