Who Owns the Most BTC?

So, who are the top holders of BTC?

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.

Meanwhile, BitInfoCharts, a website tracking Bitcoin billionaire and millionaire wallets, found that most of the top 10 wallet addresses are linked to the Binance and Bitfinex crypto exchanges.

According to the website, an extensive list of the top 10 Bitcoin wallets looks like this:

  1. 34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo
    Balance – 248,597 BTC
    A wallet address linked to Binance holding about $8.5bn worth of BTC (as of 31 October 2023) amounts to about 1.28% of the entire coins in circulation.

  2. bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97
    Balance – 178,010 BTC
    A wallet linked to Bitfinex, holding about $6.1bn worth of BTC, amounting to 0.9% of the entire coins in circulation.

  3. bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2,
    Balance – 118,300 BTC
    An anonymous wallet holding over $4bn worth of BTC tokens (0.6% of entire coins in circulation).

  4. 39884E3j6KZj82FK4vcCrkUvWYL5MQaS3v
    Balance – 115,177 BTC
    A Binance-linked wallet also holds $3.9bn worth of BTC.

  5. bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt
    Balance – 94,643 BTC
    An anonymous wallet holding $3.2bn worth of BTC.

  6. 37XuVSEpWW4trkfmvWzegTHQt7BdktSKUs
    Balance – 94,505 BTC
    An anonymous wallet also holds $3.2bn worth of BTC.

  7. 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
    Balance – 79,957 BTC
    An anonymous wallet holding $2.7bn worth of BTC.

  8. bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6
    Balance – 69,370 BTC
    An anonymous wallet holding $2.4bn worth of BTC.

  9. 3LYJfcfHPXYJreMsASk2jkn69LWEYKzexb
    Balance – 68,200 BTC
    A wallet linked to a Binance BTCB reserve holding $2.3bn worth of BTC tokens.

  10. bc1qd4ysezhmypwty5dnw7c8nqy5h5nxg0xqsvaefd0qn5kq32vwnwqqgv4rzr
    Balance – 59,300 BTC
    An anonymous wallet holding $2bn worth of BTC.

    However, Some Names in Higher Leagues of the BTC Whale Hall of Fame Include:

  • Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase

  • Michael Saylor, entrepreneur and CEO of MicroStrategy, who reportedly owns at least 17,000 BTC

  • Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao

  • Tech billionaire Tim Draper famously purchased 30,000 BTC at a discount when the U.S. Marshalls Service auctioned them off after seizing them from the Silk Road black market

  • The Winklevoss Twins, of Facebook fame, bet heavily on BTC in 2012/2013.

The Five Biggest Institutional BTC Holders are:

  1. MicroStrategy Inc. holds 158,245 BTC tokens.

  2. Marathon Digital Holdings holds 13,286 BTC coins.

  3. Galaxy Digital Holdings holds 12,545 BTC coins.

  4. Tesla Inc. holds 10,500 BTC coins.

  5. Coinbase Global Inc. holding 9,182 BTC tokens.

Celebrity Bitcoin Owners:

  1. Elon Musk

  2. Jack Dorsey

  3. Mike Tyson

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© Writer, Iliana Mavrou

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