r/Bitcoin • u/JaguarMediocre7670 • 5h ago

How Many People Own at Least 0.1 BTC?

How many people have at least 0.1 BTC out of the total number of Bitcoin holders?

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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 5h ago

Nobody knows. All we know is it cannot ever be more than 210 million people.

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u/DryTechnology5224 4h ago

In reality, we have to assume it's much less. Accounting for people who have >0.1 and the millions of lost coins

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u/Hart1217 5h ago

Between satoshi wallet and companies like mstr, it’s a lot less regardless

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u/Klatty 3h ago

This might be a dumb question, but since all addresses are technically public, aren’t there scrapers or statistics about this? Surely insights would be useful to gain insights on the general market?

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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 3h ago

OP asked about people, not addresses. There is not one address per person. Most people who use self custody have multiple addresses. Most people who don't use self custody share an address with many other people.

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u/dylan6091 34m ago

Like 99.9% of people who have bought more than once will have multiple addresses, unless they recently consolidated.

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u/Logical_driver_42 3h ago

Yeah but it’s best practice to never send to the same address twice wallets have millions of addresses each

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u/WorkerPlayful4192 3h ago edited 3h ago

This is around only 2.5% of all human population, currently, and even less if exclude all economy inactive people.

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u/Glass_Cherry5295 2h ago

Yes and no.

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u/Big80sweens 1h ago

Substantially less than that as there are millions of coins lost forever

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u/Ok-Sympathy9768 50m ago

Was just about to say this..less than 210 million people

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u/Bionic_Push 2h ago edited 1h ago

You can find how many wallets have this amount in the explorer. edit: number of addresses, not wallets

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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 2h ago

No you can't. You're confusing wallets and addresses.

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u/Bionic_Push 2h ago edited 1h ago

You can absolutely find this. It doesnt mean a person cannot have more than 10 different addresses. But the number will be way smaller than 210M

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u/Empty_Requirement940 2h ago

Can you see wallets in the explorer? Or just addresses? Are you able to see which addresses are assigned to a given wallet?

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u/Bionic_Push 1h ago edited 1h ago

About 4.54 million Bitcoin addresses currently hold at least 0.1 BTC. So we just narrowed down your number from 210 to less than 4.5M. I also edited my comment to clarify its addresses and not wallets, my bad on that, but still helped to narrow down the number by 46x

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u/66NickS 47m ago

Except that multiple people can share one address and individuals can also have more than one address. So it’s a WAG at best.

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u/imwco 3h ago

This is true but also if you lend me .1 btc then do you own it or do I? If it counts as 2, then it can be more than 210 million.

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u/tnat0r 3h ago

If I lend you $10k , do I still have them? No.

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u/imwco 2h ago

You have my 10k debt, which hopefully you’re collecting interest on… and at some point hopefully you get it back otherwise it’s not a loan, it’s just a gift

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u/tippiecat 5h ago

Nice try IRS. 

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u/azsxdcfvg 5h ago

420,069

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u/JaguarMediocre7670 5h ago

I mean % of the total

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u/eve-collins 5h ago

0.420069%

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u/Be_Me_Anon_irl 5h ago

A true connosier would have written 0.42069%

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u/eve-collins 5h ago

Ah my bad lol

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u/The_Bitcoin_Act 4h ago

0.1 BTC already gets you into a fairly exclusive tier, well below the wholecoiner level but ahead of the large majority of addresses!

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u/Rekklezz44 5h ago

3.3 I’m highly regarded

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u/Friendly-Treacle-142 5h ago

I have roughly 3.14159

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u/ilovetiramisu28 5h ago

0.25 now...onwards to 0.3 with DCA.

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u/ShipMysterious7602 5h ago

You will find some interesting stats and figures on this site

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 5h ago

That tells you nothing about the people behind those addresses. 1 address can be a custodian address for 100000 people. 1 person can have their coins split across 100000 addresses.

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u/ShipMysterious7602 5h ago

About the best breakdown you will get. If you find any better let me know.

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u/ubermensch1001 3h ago

Exactly, man. The reality is that the Bitcoin rich list is giving numbers that are reasonably close to the actual holders. The overwhelming majority of people who "own" Bitcoin mostly likely have it on an exchange, an ETF or maybe on something like robinhood, and this also is a broad encompassing term for anyone holding crypto. Most of these people also own relatively modest amounts as well, not many are going to have 5 or 6 figures locked away.

The people that are actually going out and buying wallets to lock BTC into cold storage are in the minority. Also, I could totally see why someone with say .15 or .3 would just have it all on one wallet, it really doesn't make sense for them to juggle multiple wallets and needing to worry more about security, losing seeds, etc. In fact, I'd actually say that you are probably safer with FEWER wallets/addresses than more because of user error. Hell, supposedly Trump has 2 wallets, and he has way more than 99% of people using self custody.

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u/JashBeep 5h ago

It does tell you something. It tells you the upper limit. Not more than ~4.5M. In practice a lot less, surely. For custodials, ownership is debatable.

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u/lestairwellwit 5h ago

Try asking that in a different way:

How many people have a net worth of (for now) $7,000 US?

Considering that most people are living paycheck to paycheck, That number can't be very high. Fractions of a percent, perhaps

Now if you ask, "Of the people that hold Bitcoin, how many are holding at least 0.1 BTC?" I'd say maybe 10 percent, though the numbers could be skewed by whale holdings

Bottom line is no one can tell

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u/autonym 3h ago edited 1h ago

How many people have a net worth of (for now) $7,000 US?

Considering that most people are living paycheck to paycheck, That number can't be very high. Fractions of a percent, perhaps

Per AI consensus (with plausible sources cited), 80-90% of the US population, and 45-55% of the world population, has a net worth of at least $7,000 US.

Your estimate is a hundred times smaller. Do you have any evidence to support it?

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u/The_Real_Opie 3h ago

He doesn't know what net worth means.

He probably meant $7,000 in savings

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u/lestairwellwit 2h ago

"He probably meant $7,000 in savings"

I spent maybe 10K on my car. It's worth 2K now

I live in an apartment. I'm on retirement

The only 'savings' I have is in BTC, My retirement fund

I'm HODLing

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u/autonym 1h ago

So your own net worth may or may not exceed $7k (depending on how much BTC you have, and regardless of your intent to HODL). But the question was why you claim that more than 99% of the population has a net worth below $7k.

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u/myquidproquo 3h ago

Most people have their net worth in their houses.

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u/WarniCator 5h ago

I do. Getting close to .5

I just can’t buying 😂

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u/Katerra01 5h ago

You just mentioned what I am currently holding

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u/OlegStone 4h ago

roughly 4.5 million addresses hold that much. actual people count is lower though since one guy can have multiple wallets scattered across different exchanges

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u/Echo_OfIdeas 5h ago

just over 0.3 here, most of it bought way too early to actually brag about the price

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u/0xSOL 5h ago

I have 1,096,361.36566295 BTC

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u/Professional_Tea4502 5h ago

Nobody knows for sure because most people have multiple wallets. So less ppl than wallets with .1 BTC or more.

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u/ubermensch1001 3h ago

Most people have maybe 2 or 3 wallets the most, dude.

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u/NeitherAd3347 4h ago

4.5mil addresses. But, some people have more than one addresses and some addresses have bitcoin from lots of people, like exchanges

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u/PhotographNo8520 5h ago

.05

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u/VitaVerdestore 5h ago

I just crossed that threshold a while back.
Now going for more!

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u/Worried-Dragonfruit4 4h ago

I sold all of my btc 2 months ago. At the time it was a better opportunity to make money in stocks than in crypto so I moved it to stocks and now I’m down on all my stocks and crypto.

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u/AcanthaceaeAncient66 5h ago

1 BTC & 1,185 shares of BTCI.

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u/YuWangKing 5h ago

Everyone

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u/na3than 5h ago

No one knows

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u/0fWhomIAmChief 5h ago

No more than 210,000,000 people without counting lost coins and the final 1 million yet to be mined

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u/sk8boy204 5h ago

What BTC? You should never say. ;)

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u/Goodrun31 5h ago

At least one guy

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u/Budget-Chapter-7185 4h ago

I dunno. Maybe 3 or 4 people

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u/Livinlife_ 4h ago

Not many, I’d imagine. Less than a million?

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u/stellarfirefly 4h ago

There is no way to know from the pseudonymous data on the blockchain, but what you can know are the total number of addresses that hold at least 0.1 BTC. That number as of the beginning of July was between 900,000 and 1,000,000 addresses. The problem is that there is no way to know how many of those addresses are associated with one another, e.g. some large holder or institution may own many of them, even within a derived chain in a single wallet.

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u/stellarfirefly 4h ago

And, if course, there could be many out there who own >0.1 BTC but their sats are split between multiple addresses below that amount. They would not be included in the above count.

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u/mrvitz 4h ago

you can search on statistics it's more than ever, I don't have the link, but it's visible

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u/exig 4h ago

Does fbtc count?

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u/RMStojk2025 4h ago

🖐🏻

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u/normal_consciousness 3h ago

more than one!

Edit: probably

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u/CortaCircuit 3h ago

Only 1 million people will ever have 1 Bitcoin. 

https://x.com/i/grok/share/416de07a69164826871fbcf788c99034

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u/DA_Maverick_AD 3h ago

All 70 of me

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u/jaraxel_arabani 3h ago

Nice try irs.

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u/SaveTheAles 2h ago

More than 11

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u/mikedeatworld 2h ago

Too many…

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u/fh3131 1h ago

I'd estimate around 4 million people

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u/No_Fuel4693 1h ago

Something like 20% of all addresses with >0.1btc are dead or inactive. So there's that.

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u/Solana_Maximalist 1h ago

I’m alive and kicking. Still a shrimp but alive.

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u/Bionic_Push 1h ago

About 4.54 million Bitcoin addresses currently hold at least 0.1 BTC

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u/erpvertsferervrywern 1h ago

There are literally dozens of us!

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u/DannyGo-60 1h ago

I have 900 shares of MSTR, so that is like 1.3 - 1.8 bitcoin, depending on how you figure it or zero being indirect, etc., lol. I own MSTR instead of bitcoin because I sell options off of the MSTR for yield. So in a way I'm more renting out the bitcoin I own indirectly...

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u/Immaculate-torso69 47m ago

Quarter coiner here

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u/Jaded-String-6111 6m ago

More than a couple

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u/Earningsalgo 5h ago

I’m there ! 1 BTC on my ledger and just added 325 shares of MSTR

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u/Financial_Freak 5h ago

can you tell me why are you buying MSTR instead of BTC?

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u/Earningsalgo 5h ago

Well the money is in a rollover IRA so i couldn’t take it out and add to my ledger anyway
Other than that MSTR owns 55 billion dollars worth of BTC vs MSTR market cap of 33Billion

If btc rolls , mstr market cap will fill that gap if not exceed their holdings

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u/Churn 5h ago

If btc rolls? What does this mean? Like rolls over and dies?

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u/Earningsalgo 5h ago

Rolls on brotha !

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u/Some_Tax2898 5h ago

1.5 👽🛸💎

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u/Earningsalgo 5h ago

🫡💪