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December 2, 2022

How Decentralized Is Bitcoin?

Curious about how much Bitcoin ($BTC.X) exists and who it’s owned by? We may know some identities tied to BTC addresses, but most are unknown.

But we can track how much exists and how much is in a wallet. 

There is only 21 million Bitcoin that will ever exist. 19.22 million have already been mined. 

15.85 million Bitcoin are in wallets with ten or more Bitcoin.

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The top 1% of Bitcoin addresses hold 17.23 million BTC – 89% of the total mined supply. 

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The top 10% of Bitcoin addresses hold 18.96 million BTC – 98.6% of the total mined supply.

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152,794 wallets have ten or more BTC.

Only 113 wallets have greater than 10,000 BTC.

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Probably not the decentralization Satoshi was looking for.

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