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11 million hold their own bitcoin keys in the US | The Nakamoto Projectwww.thenakamotoproject.org/report
1777 sats \ 11 comments \ @Scoresby 13h bitcoin
Report sample size: 3538
Key findings:
  • 18.6% of respondents claimed to own bitcoin.
  • 4.21% of respondents claimed to hold bitcoin in self-custody.
  • Bitcoin ownership continues to skew younger and more male than the general U.S. population.
  • Bitcoin ownership shifted slightly to the political right, but remains distributed across the entire political spectrum and mostly centrist.
There's a lot of cool stuff in the report (13 pages long) and Troy Cross has a nice thread on X summarizing it.
Some interesting graphics from the report:
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3 replies \ @supratic 12h
twatter thread shared here #1021434 I thought ~charts_and_numbers was more appropriate… you'll find more chards from the original tweet and direct link to download the full report in PDF
Should I have posted it here in ~bitcoin instead?
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby OP 11h
sorry I missed your post. It didn't come up as a dupe, nor in related. ~charts_and_numbers is probably a better spot, I should have posted there.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 11h
yeah I shared the twat and this is the link to the site. Curious to notice how we prioritize information differently!
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 11h
i usually go for the site if I can get it rather than a twitter link, mostly because I find it kind of unpleasant to open twitter links.
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155 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12h
I always get kinda suspicious with these reports, feels like one of those where you just go, ‘Nice try, Fed.’
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204 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic 11h
data accuracy is aways a dilemma, who completed the survey and the data inputs also could change a lot. Anyhow, it gives an idea, I'd not accept it as a truth if I cannot validate the data myself
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116 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 12h
or the people who will answer honestly are not representative of the average bitcoiner you find on SN.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @Riberet 9h
I really wonder how much truth there is in these reports?
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107 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 12h
This will always be very difficult to quantify and it should be that way
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 12m
The upper bound is 170M as that's the size of the current UTXO set. Now many people control keys to more than one UTXO (often they control hundreds) and then of course exchanges own many of those, so the upper bound on actual folks self custodying is much smaller. My guess would be that the actual number is somewhere between 1M and 10M worldwide.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 13h bot
https://xcancel.com/thetrocro/status/1940560058469015867
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