How many individual holders of Bitcoin are there?

[cozytrade]

OP With the way people are turning to bitcoin right now it's hard to estimate how many bitcoin holders there are. But this much can be said over the past few years, the number of Bitcoin investments and holders has increased manifold. Bitcoin is not legal in many countries so I think it is impossible to know the exact number of investors and holders. Now many people in our country have chosen Bitcoin as a safe asset. Even if Bitcoin is not illegal in our country, seeing the success of Bitcoin, many people in our country are secretly investing in Bitcoin and trying to hold for long term. In the current situation of Bitcoin, this much can be understood, it is expected that the number of investors and holders of Bitcoin will increase several times in the future.

[leonair]

Is there some metric or study somewhere that could let us know how many individuals (individual humans) currently hold Bitcoin as an asset? Are there any metrics that could approximate the number? Estimate change over time?

I would think this would be a key metric in understanding the market.

Apart from exchangers that brands their bitcoin wallet addresses, it is almost impossible to state who holds bitcoin, whether an individual or a coorperation. Although certain transaction consistency and wallet ballance can advise that a particular wallet address is not owned by an individual but asides that you can not tell who exactly owns a wallet address.

Yes it is possible to track who holds bitcoins for how long. But it is possible to see who is holding a bitcoin wallet for how long but if you want to verify all bitcoin wallets it would be very cumbersome and time consuming which is why no one does it. Since not everyone holds bitcoins everyone transacts bitcoins constantly it is very difficult for everyone to truck them constantly it is not possible by humans but it can be done by robots but it is impossible to know who will hold bitcoins for how long and who is the real holder

[Hypnosis00]

OP With the way people are turning to bitcoin right now it's hard to estimate how many bitcoin holders there are. But this much can be said over the past few years, the number of Bitcoin investments and holders has increased manifold. Bitcoin is not legal in many countries so I think it is impossible to know the exact number of investors and holders. Now many people in our country have chosen Bitcoin as a safe asset. Even if Bitcoin is not illegal in our country, seeing the success of Bitcoin, many people in our country are secretly investing in Bitcoin and trying to hold for long term. In the current situation of Bitcoin, this much can be understood, it is expected that the number of investors and holders of Bitcoin will increase several times in the future.

It only be accounted properly if we all are using a single exchange but we have a lot of exchanges available in the market and they won't also speak out.
I don't think it is necessary to know instead, let us assume that the number of Bitcoin holders is growing fast every day.

However, we could also say that even though the number of holders is growing, some also are leaving.
All we've got are just estimated numbers but it doesn't matter because what is important is that we see a growing number of individuals who are in crypto already.

[JustineCollins09]

You will get rough idea by looking at the total numbers of users in this forum.

[Vaculin]

No one can exactly tell the fixed amount of hodlers. And even if we have some metrics to use, I guess we can only make an estimation but never the exact number of hodlers as there are hodlers who holds more than one address while others are only using a single address.

However, it does not matter as to how many hodlers are there, the important thing is we all know that there is growing community of bitcoin, and probably majority of it are hodlers that eventually turn into traders if they got chances to trade using their skills and strategies.

[Dr.Osh]

Is there some metric or study somewhere that could let us know how many individuals (individual humans) currently hold Bitcoin as an asset? Are there any metrics that could approximate the number? Estimate change over time?

I would think this would be a key metric in understanding the market.

it's too difficult to do that, because basically we don't know how many wallets each person has, how many have bitcoin, how many are given to other people, and so on. In fact, I believe that the number of wallets will continue to increase every day, and we don't know who created them, whether it is a new user, or an old user. Apart from that, we also don't know whether there is a minimum amount to be a holder or not, because people still hold bitcoin in amounts below 0.001 BTC.

[Blitzboy]

No one can exactly tell the fixed amount of hodlers. And even if we have some metrics to use, I guess we can only make an estimation but never the exact number of hodlers as there are hodlers who holds more than one address while others are only using a single address.

However, it does not matter as to how many hodlers are there, the important thing is we all know that there is growing community of bitcoin, and probably majority of it are hodlers that eventually turn into traders if they got chances to trade using their skills and strategies.

They're out there, but details are scarce. Its fascinating, right? People's decision to hold many addresses or simply one. Diversity in the Bitcoin community makes it vibrant. Our diverse population includes hodlers and traders. The ecosystem thrives on many approaches.  Trading requires expertise, timing, and market magic, not just opportunity. A calculated leap, yes. Hodling and trading keep things interesting for me. Like a chef, you have your staple ingredients (long-term holds) but are constantly ready to cook something new given market trends and gut feeling.

[Mr.suevie]

Is there some metric or study somewhere that could let us know how many individuals (individual humans) currently hold Bitcoin as an asset? Are there any metrics that could approximate the number? Estimate change over time?

I would think this would be a key metric in understanding the market.

Just know there are alot of people actually holding and if you think you want access or understand the market before HODLing then I think you would probably be on the losing end because the only thing you need to know about the market is that the Bitcoin or crypto market is volatile and this volatility is what makes it a perfect opening for investor to take advantage of it.

There are many set of people owning Bitcoin so it will be quite hard to evaluate the exact number of people holding because not everyone is actually holding some folks are trading and another are short term holders and some folks watch the exchange rates to make profits from different exchange rate on the price of Bitcoin and other crypto in the market.

[doubletheprof]

Quite a few probably lol

[ObscurePen]

CoinMarketCap provides some numbers. I am not too sure how they source these. They cite IntoTheBlock which is a blockchain analytics company. again I’m not too sure how they get these but I think the numbers are too small to represent the whole world. Nevertheless the different categories of holders and the proportions of the same may provide some insight for whatever the OP is trying to ascertain. These numbers may or may not be replication of the rest of the market.
According to their data, there are 52.79M holding addresses with 67.95% holders 1+ yrs, 25.35% holding for 1-12 months and 6.70% accounting for traders who hold for very short durations.
Most of these addresses hold <1k (83.14%), 16.01% holds between 1k to 100k and 0.85% hold >100k.