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How many Bitcoin do you own? The 2022 Edition

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Dear Bitcoiners and Cryptonerds,

how is the Bitcoin distribution changing over time?

This table is from Oct. 2020... https://peakd.com/publish?edit=stayoutoftherz%2Fhow-many-bitcoin-do-you-own

...and this from today: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Overall not too big changes, right? The categories are pretty stable (e.g. the addresses containing 1 to 10 BTC changed only from 9,28 to 9,18%). A bit more BTC are now in addresses with <0.01 BTC (app. 44000 vs. 35000), so a sloow progress towards more decentralization.

With Bitcoin, the Top 100 addresses have 15,45% of all coins.

If you compare this to Litecoin, here 40% are stored in the Top 100 addresses:

And with Dogecoin (DOGE), this value is >68% (source)!

2,5 years ago I have asked you already the exact same question as in the title, and then 1,5 years ago again.

The response was not that overwhelming (app. 13 responses each) , but at least there was some indication that in 2020 the average Hiver had more Bitcoins accumulated than in 2019: The answer "I don´t want to disclose" is not represented in the graph.

In 2019, more than half of the respondants (5 of 9) had zero BTC, one year later that rate dropped to 33% (3 of 9).

So I would like to repeat the question, to see if there is a difference now, and hopefully getting more answers compared to the previous times!

How many Bitcoin do you own currently?

  • I don´t want to disclose
  • I don´t have any BTC
  • < 0,01 BTC
  • 0,01 to <0,1 BTC
  • 0,1 to <0,5 BTC
  • 0,5 to <1 BTC
  • 1 to <2.5 BTC
  • 2,5 to 5 BTC
  • more than 5 BTC

Just let me know in the comments (or via this ANONYMOUS SURVEY) and I will update the table in a week.

UPDATE:

Adding the 13 respondents of 2022 to the table:

Hard to interprete the trend over time with such a small sample (and very likely not the same people have answered). The anonymous survey didn´t trigger that much more answers (or was overlooked as I had not added it right away). I will try it again in 2 years.