News Bitcoin - The Who’s Who of the Bitcoinerati – the New 1%?
There are many threads and articles online discussing bitcoin’s ‘rich list.’ Bitcoiners collect information on the biggest bitcoin wallets from public sources, people and institutions who have disclosed their holdings and share it. A Bitcoin top holder (sometimes purposely misspelled ‘hodler’ as an inside joke) might be an early adopter, gambling site owner, exchange operator, investor, government agency, and the list goes on. As bitcoin bulls, some hold bitcoin with long-term price speculation in mind as might a safe haven-seeking goldbug. Due to the nature of bitcoin, the identities of many such holders is speculative.
Bitcoin founder himself Satoshi Nakamoto has yet to transfer one of his 980,000 bitcoins. Nobody knows how, if at all, satoshi lives. Media outlets including Newsweek and Wired have purported to uncover the real satoshi, but such claims remain unvalidated. Satoshi, the first to mine bitcoins, did so throughout 2009. Whether or not he mined or bought and sold the digital currency with other wallets is unknown.
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Topic: [2017-01-08] The Who’s Who of the Bitcoinerati – the New 1%? (Read 185 times)
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