According to the bitcoin research and analysis firm River Intelligence, Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator behind bitcoin, is listed as the top BTC holder as of 2023. The company notes that Satoshi Nakamoto holds about 1.1m BTC tokens in about 22,000 different addresses.
⏳The data is from (20 September , 2023).
The website (🌐bitinfocharts), an extensive list of the top 10 bitcoin wallets looks like this:
1️⃣34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo
Amount: 248,597 BTC
A wallet address linked to Binanc3 holding about $6bn worth of BTC (as of the time of writing, 15 September 2023) amounts to about 1.28% of the entire coins in circulation.
2️⃣bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97
Amount: 178,010 BTC
A wallet linked to Bitfinex, holding $4bn worth of BTC, amounting to 0.9% of the entire coins in circulation.
3️⃣bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2,
Amount: 118,300 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $3bn worth of BTC tokens (0.6% of entire coins in circulation).
4️⃣39884E3j6KZj82FK4vcCrkUvWYL5MQaS3v
Amount: 115,177 BTC
A Binance-linked wallet also holds $3bn worth of BTC.
5️⃣bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt
Amount: 94,643 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $2.4bn worth of BTC.
6️⃣37XuVSEpWW4trkfmvWzegTHQt7BdktSKUs
Amount: 94,505 BTC
An anonymous wallet also holds $2.4bn worth of BTC.
7️⃣1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
Amount: 79,957 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $2.1bn worth of BTC.
8️⃣bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6
Amount: 69,370 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $1.8bn worth of BTC.
9️⃣3LYJfcfHPXYJreMsASk2jkn69LWEYKzexb
Amount: 68,200 BTC
A wallet linked to a Binanc3 BTCB reserve holding $1.7bn worth of BTC tokens.
1️⃣0️⃣bc1qd4ysezhmypwty5dnw7c8nqy5h5nxg0xqsvaefd0qn5kq32vwnwqqgv4rzr
Amount: 59,300 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $1.5bn worth of BTC.
While wallet addresses are public and can be easily accessed by the public, their holders’ names remain anonymous unless voluntarily disclosed by the owner themselves. This makes knowing exactly who the biggest bitcoin owners are a little more challenging.
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