That means a Bitcoin millionaire holding 1,000 bitcoins has enjoyed a $1.5 million gain in less than six months. But Bitcoin millionaires aren't as common as you might think, given its huge gains. At the current Bitcoin price of about $2,500, a person needs 400 bitcoins to qualify as a Bitcoin millionaire. According to BitInfoCharts.com, just over 4,300 Bitcoin addresses hold 400 or more bitcoins. But since one person can have multiple Bitcoin addresses, the actual number of Bitcoin millionaires is certainly much lower than 4,300. Related: How to Buy Bitcoins – Your Guide to Digital Profits It's impossible to calculate the exact number of Bitcoin millionaires, or to even know how many bitcoins one person may own.
The reason is that while all Bitcoin addresses are public, who owns them isn't. What we do know is that Bitcoin wealth is extremely concentrated. Almost two-thirds of all bitcoins are held in just 0.01% of the addresses (those containing 100 or more bitcoins). And an astonishing 89.4% of all bitcoins are held in 0.8% of the addresses (those containing 10 or more bitcoins). Bitcoin Amount % of Addresses (total) % of Bitcoins (Total) 0 – 0.001 58.08% (100%) 0.01% (100%) 0.001 – 0.01 17.16% (41.92%) 0.07% (99.99%) 0.01 – 0.1 14.9% (24.76%) 0.52% (99.91%) 0.1 – 1 6.62% (9.86%) 2.42% (99.39%) 1 – 10 2.44% (3.24%) 7.56% (96.97%) 10 – 100 0.7% (0.8%) 26.27% (89.41%) 100 – 1,000 0.09% (0.1%) 22.92% (63.15%) 1,000 – 10,000 0.01% (0.01%) 21.69% (40.23%) 10,000 – 100,000 0% (0%) 17.08% (18.54%) 100,000 – 1,000,000 0% (0%) 1.46% (1.46%) Of course, since these Bitcoin addresses aren't linked to the owner names, there's no way to create a comprehensive list of Bitcoin millionaires. Urgent: An incredibly rare gold anomaly is shaping up in the markets as we speak — one that has occurred ONLY twice in the past 20 years.
And it's about to happen again. Find out more… On the other hand, we do know of a handful of prominent people who most definitely are Bitcoin millionaires… While we can't provide exact numbers, we know enough about this group to ballpark how much Bitcoin they own and what it's worth at today's prices…Bitcoin price Cameron and Tyler WinklevossEstimated bitcoins owned: 1.5 millionEstimated value at $2,500: $3.75 billion The Winklevoss twins gained fame when they sued Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing the idea for Facebook Inc. (NYSE: FB) from them. But in 2013, they used part of their $65 million settlement to buy 1.5 million bitcoins. That investment – valued at $11 million at the time by The New York Times — has increased more than 31,000% since then. The identical twins aren't just Bitcoin investors, though. They've also launched one of the leading Bitcoin exchanges, Gemini, and developed a proposal for a Bitcoin ETF (the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust) that was rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in March.price of Bitcoin Satoshi NakamotoEstimated bitcoins owned: 1 millionEstimated value at $2,500: $2.5 billion The mysterious creator of Bitcoin is believed to control about 1 million bitcoins, most of those mined in the earliest days of the cryptocurrency when only a handful of programmers were even aware it existed. Back then the block reward was 50 bitcoins, and the difficulty so low that you could mine plenty of Bitcoin with an average laptop. It's unclear if Nakamoto is a pseudonym for one person or a group of people, or where he/she/they may be now. But the bitcoins known to belong to Nakamoto have never been spent or transferred.
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