Fellow Binancians,
Binance has completed the integration of Tether (USDT) on the Toncoin Network. Deposits and withdrawals are now open.
Please find your assigned token deposit address here. The token’s smart contract address on the aforementioned network can be found here.
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Fellow Binancians,
As Binance conducts regular reviews of its promotion offerings to provide users with the most value and competitive services, Binance will be updating its Zero-Fee Trading for JPY Spot Trading Pairs at 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC).
Starting from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC), standard maker and taker fees will apply to all users when they trade JPY spot trading pairs. Please refer to the spot and margin trading fee structure for more details.
The trading volume of the aforementioned spot trading pairs will count toward users’ VIP tier volume calculation and all Liquidity Provider programs where applicable, effective from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC). BNB discounts, referral rebates, and any other adjustments will apply to the JPY spot trading pairs where applicable effective from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC).
In addition, effective from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC), Binance Japan will start a VIP Program to cater to the local needs in Japan. This program allows users to qualify for any of the VIP 1-4 levels to unlock more rewards as a Binance Japan VIP. Please view more information on the Binance Japan VIP Program here.
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Binance Team
2024-06-24
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Key Updates
JPY market will be added into the Fiat Liquidity Provider Program starting from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC).The qualification review of new markets will be effective starting from 2024-06-25 00:00 (UTC). Liquidity providers will be reviewed weekly based on the new performance review mechanism.Effective from 2024-07-02 00:00 (UTC), maker fee rebates will be distributed to liquidity providers based on their previous week’s spot trading performance across the selected fiat markets.

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The identity of Bitcoin's creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, remains one of the greatest mysteries in the tech world. Despite numerous investigations and claims, no one has definitively proven who Nakamoto is, and the person or group behind this name holds around 1 million bitcoins, worth billions of dollars today. $BTC $ETH $BNB #CryptoTradingGuide #BinanceTournament

Satoshi Nakamoto owns the most bitcoin with an estimated 1.1 million BTC. Satoshi not only invented but was also the first miner to create blocks of transactions. It is estimated that Satoshi mined more than 22,000 blocks starting from January 3rd, 2009, and received more than one million bitcoin in cumulative block rewards for the work.

How Many Bitcoin Does Satoshi Have?
As a result, Satoshi is estimated to have more than 1.1 million BTC, valued at approximately $78 billion in March 2024. This bitcoin is not stored in one address but spread across roughly 22,000 addresses. None of it was ever spent besides a few test transactions. Satoshi left the project in 2010 and hasn’t been heard from since.

Individual Bitcoin Whales
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
Following their 2008 settlement with Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million worth of Facebook shares and cash, the pair started an angel investment company. A few years later they would announce they had bought approximately $11 million worth of bitcoin at an average cost basisof $10 per coin. It’s estimated that the Winklevoss twins own ~70,000 BTC.
Tim Draper
The VC titan has been interested in Bitcoin for a while; so much so that he made one initial purchase of 40,000 BTC at the Mt Gox exchange.
Unfortunately, all 40,000 coins were lost in the hack and subsequent bankruptcy. However, in 2014, Mr. Draper purchased 29,656 BTC for $18.7 million at a cost basis of approximately $632 per coin.
Michael Saylor
The founder and chairman of Microstrategy revealed in an October 2020 tweet that he personally held 17,732 BTC. It is reasonable to assume that he has since acquired more—being such a public Bitcoin Bull—but this is the only mention of his personal stash.
Bitcoin Wealth Distribution
Over time, bitcoin ownership has become distributed in strata based on total bitcoin wealth. These categories are based on the total number of bitcoin located at an address.
➤ Learn more about what Bitcoin addresses are and how they're used.
The amount of bitcoin that each stratum of addresses owns in relation to the entire bitcoin supply fluctuates over time.
Today, only three bitcoin addresses contain 100,000 - 1,000,000 BTC for a total of 577,502 BTC. The next 102 largest owners, who range from 10,000 - 100,000 BTC, own a total of 2,410,577 BTC. These wealthiest 102 addresses account for about 11% of the total supply. Bitcoin addresses with 10,000 or more bitcoin are sometimes referred to as whales.

The distribution of bitcoin holdings across addresses.
➤ Learn more about the top 100 richest bitcoin addresses.
Bitcoin Billionaires
Not including Satoshi, three bitcoin addresses contain more than 100,000 bitcoin each. The three addresses with the most bitcoin belong to Binance, Bitfinex, and another address, whose identity is unknown. These three addresses collectively own more than 564,902 bitcoin. The exchange addresses represent the holdings of many individual investors who are not holding their own keys.
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Binance owns the largest cold storage wallet address, 34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo, which holds 248,597 BTC.
Companies Holding the Most Bitcoin
Companies can use corporate savings, called a treasury, to buy bitcoin. The benefit of this strategy, employed by companies such as Microstrategy, Tesla, and Galaxy Digital Holdings, is to protect their savings against inflation and negative-yield bonds.
Large corporations who can issue corporate bonds with low interest rates also have the opportunity to create cheap debt and use the funds to purchase bitcoin. In theory, as the dollar’s value decreases with inflation and bitcoin continues to store value, paying off fiat debt will require fewer bitcoin. This strategy is similar to buying on margin or using leverage.
Public Companies Holding the Most Bitcoin
Collectively, public companies own more than 306,669 BTC, equal to 1.46% of the total supply.
Microstrategy, led by Michael Saylor, holds more bitcoin than any other public company. Microstrategy has acquired 214,278 BTC, which represents roughly 1.02% of the total supply. Microstrategy has employed a unique strategy in which they raise debt capital and use it to purchase bitcoin. The theory behind this strategy is that the company can repay the fiat debt by selling less bitcoin in the future. Other companies are beginning to mimic this strategy.
Robinhood Markets, a financial services company offering stock, ETF, cryptocurrency trading has been on a bitcoin-accumulation strategy. According to Arkham Intelligence, Robinhood controls 118,300 BTC.
Marathon Digital Holdings, the Bitcoin Mining mega-company, owns 17,631 BTC. Following many years of accumulation, the firm sold 766 BTC in March of 2023.
The third-largest bitcoin holding by a public company is Tesla, Inc. which holds 9,720 BTC. The auto manufacturer has sold over 33,000 BTC since their initial purchase in February 2021.
Hut 8 Mining Corp. and Block Inc. round out public companies in the top ten Bitcoin holdings—according to Bitcoin Treasuries dot net. The company holds over 8,000 BTC.
Private Companies Holding the Most Bitcoin
Private companies own roughly 494,721 BTC, about 2.3% of the total supply. Mt. Gox, the formerly hacked exchange, is the largest private holder of bitcoin that is yet to be distributed to creditors. It holds a total of 141,686 bitcoin, or 0.7% of total supply.
Block.one, a Chinese corporation, is the second largest private owner of bitcoin. Block.one reportedly owns 164,000 BTC, representing 0.7% of the total supply.
Stone Ridge Holdings Group is an American private company that owns approximately 10,889 BTC.
Tether Holdings LTD, the company behind the USDT stablecoin, has roughly 75,354 BTC—valued at $4.9 billion U.S. dollars
➤ Learn more about investing bitcoin in an LLC.
Indirect Bitcoin Exposure
Indirect bitcoin exposure is one investment method for investors seeking to gain exposure to the bitcoin price without directly purchasing bitcoin. Some investors also believe they can reduce risk by investing in an extensive portfolio with many bitcoin-related assets. A bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF)may contain equities and other bitcoin-related assets that result in a more diversified portfolio. Bitcoin ETFs track the price of bitcoin, albeit imperfectly. Some proposed ETFs are also based on bitcoin futures and other derivative products.
ETFs and other funds own a combined 982,523 BTC, 4.67% of the total bitcoin supply. The largest holder in this category is Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which owns 291,239 BTC, or nearly 1.38% of the total supply.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has approximately 273,824 BTC under management.
In total, ETFs, public and private companies own almost 982,523 BTC, more than 4.67% of the total supply.
➤ Learn more about bitcoin ETFs.
Retirement accounts are another popular method for indirect exposure to bitcoin. A growing number of custodians offer financial services and Traditional or Roth IRA products that can include bitcoin.
➤ Learn more about investing bitcoin in a retirement account.
Governments Holding the Most Bitcoin
Governments across the world own an estimated 567,316 BTC, representing 2.70% of the total supply. The Chinese government reportedly holds 190,000 BTC that was recovered from the Plustoken scam in 2019. Members of the Ukrainian government privately hold roughly 46,351 BTC. El Salvador’s holdings are currently at 5,702 BTC.
➤ Learn more about how much bitcoin governments own.
Total Bitcoin Supply
Under the current Bitcoin software rules, there can never be more than 21 million bitcoin. For that reason, percent ownership of the total bitcoin supply can be safely calculated using the hard cap of 21 million.
However, some models use the total supply of bitcoin excluding the more than 1,000,000 BTC that Satoshi Nakamoto received in block rewards and the estimated 3-4 million coins that are lost forever. This places the total supply of bitcoin closer to 17 million rather than 21 million. Regardless of the model used, there is a strict upper limit on the number of bitcoin that will ever exist. Therefore, all bitcoin owners can be confident that their share of bitcoin will never be diluted below a certain percentage.

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Who Owns Bitcoin?
Satoshi Nakamoto is the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, but he doesn’t own the Bitcoin project, nobody does.
Bitcoin is software run by a decentralized network, which means no single party is in control of the set of rules in the software. These rules must be agreed upon by the network participants in order for them to transact.

So if no one owns the Bitcoin protocol, who are the biggest holders of the bitcoin (BTC)? We answer this question in the video below or continue reading the rest of the article.

Key TakeawaysThe person who holds the most bitcoin is believed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown figure behind its creation. Bitcoin has been a business interest for many years, but following the approval of spot bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, businesses accounted for the most bitcoin held. $BTC $ETH $BNB #RichardTeng #BTC☀ #BTC500K #btc73k

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