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.
โณThe data is from (20 September , 2023).
The website (๐bitinfocharts), an extensive list of the top 10 bitcoin wallets looks like this:
1๏ธโฃ34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo
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.
2๏ธโฃbc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97
Amount: 178,010 BTC
A wallet linked to Bitfinex, holding $4bn worth of BTC, amounting to 0.9% of the entire coins in circulation.
3๏ธโฃbc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2,
Amount: 118,300 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $3bn worth of BTC tokens (0.6% of entire coins in circulation).
4๏ธโฃ39884E3j6KZj82FK4vcCrkUvWYL5MQaS3v
Amount: 115,177 BTC
A Binance-linked wallet also holds $3bn worth of BTC.
5๏ธโฃbc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt
Amount: 94,643 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $2.4bn worth of BTC.
6๏ธโฃ37XuVSEpWW4trkfmvWzegTHQt7BdktSKUs
Amount: 94,505 BTC
An anonymous wallet also holds $2.4bn worth of BTC.
7๏ธโฃ1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
Amount: 79,957 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $2.1bn worth of BTC.
8๏ธโฃbc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6
Amount: 69,370 BTC
An anonymous wallet holding $1.8bn worth of BTC.
9๏ธโฃ3LYJfcfHPXYJreMsASk2jkn69LWEYKzexb
Amount: 68,200 BTC
A wallet linked to a Binanc3 BTCB reserve holding $1.7bn worth of BTC tokens.
1๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃbc1qd4ysezhmypwty5dnw7c8nqy5h5nxg0xqsvaefd0qn5kq32vwnwqqgv4rzr
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 holdersโ 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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