So far, the bitcoin father's wallet is the best gifted in bitcoin of all. Celebrities, governments, companies or crypto exchanges of all kinds are unable to deplace him in the ranking of rich bitcoin holders. Details!
Difficult to end the superiority of Bitcoin's dad?
If the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and his current situation remain unknown, his wealth in bitcoin is estimated at about 1 million coins. Learn much more about this founder of Bitcoin in this article.
Top 10 global Bitcoin holders - I wonder if anonymous whale wallets are missing.
Apparently, Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who some would like to award a Nobel Prize in Economics, is the largest bitcoin holder in the world. CNN confirmed in a publication dated June 2023 that BTC's first miner wanted a major upheaval in the financial sector by launching a "purely peer-to-peer version of electronic money". This asset "would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without moving from a financial institution or any intermediary".
Techopedia, author of a recent article on the top 10 bitcoin hodlers, said that Satoshi Nakamoto would be rich in about 1.1 million BTC tokens spread over 22,000 different addresses. Note that these digital assets have not been transferred in any way since 2010.
To give you an overview of its wealth, let's multiply this million bitcoin by $42,662.10, the price of bitcoin at the time of writing this article. This gives about $47 billion asleep for a decade.
The other rich bitcoin holders
The rest of the list consists of two distinct categories of BTC hodlers: crypto exchanges, financial behemoths and governments.
Cryptocurrency exchanges and companies
The 2nd position of the top 10 bitcoin holders is currently occupied by Binance, the exchange once run by Changpeng Zhao. This company would currently have 643,546 BTC.
Then comes MT.Gox, the crypto exchange bankrupt after a hack in 2014, with 200,000 BTC. Good news, the reimbursement of customers victims of this attack how to collect money as compensation for lost assets.
After MT. Gox come Bitfinex (196,252 BTC) and Block.One (140,000 BTC).
Governments
Of course, as bitcoin is seized on illegal practices on the Dark Web (including SilkRoad), the United States has built up a nice deal in bitcoin. Currently, all crypto assets seized by the government amount to 207,189 BTC. Also, China, a very repressive country with regard to cryptocurrencies, currently has 194,000 BTC.
References:
Gladstein, A. (2023). The Concentration of Wealth and Power in Bitcoin.
Griffin, J., & Shams, A. (2022). The Anonymous Bitcoin Whales: Who Are They and What Do They Want?
Chainanalysis. (2023). The State of Bitcoin Report 2023.
Elliptic. (2023). The Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study 2023.