Who owns the most Bitcoins?
Satoshi Nakamoto owns the most bitcoins, with an estimated 1.1 million BTC. Satoshi not only invented Bitcoin, but also initiated it, by being the first miner to create transaction blocks. It is estimated that Satoshi mined over 22,000 blocks starting on January 3, 2009, and received over a million bitcoins in cumulative block rewards for his work.
How many Bitcoins does Satoshi have?
As a result, Satoshi is estimated to have over 1.1 million BTC, worth around $47 billion as of February 2024. This Bitcoin is not stored in a single address but is distributed across around 22,000 addresses. None of it has been spent except for a few test transactions. Satoshi left the project in 2010 and has not been heard from since.