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Topic: How much BTC do you need to be in the Top 100? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000? (Read 1697 times)

sr. member
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Of course, the more the better.

isn't it?
legendary
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You are guaranteed to be in the top 100 if you have more than 1% of the 13 million available bitcoins, or more than 130,000 BTC.

In the top ...If you have ...
100130,000
1,00013,000
10,0001,300
100,000130
1,000,00013

But because of the skew towards the top, the necessary amounts are probably actually much less.



yeah should be a bit lesser to be in top 100
legendary
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Well, if you trust Risto Pietilä, then this is the Bitcoin wealth distribution. (latest):

22. Apr 2014

#People#Bitcoins#TotalBitcoins
70BTC10k+3.6M
930BTC1k-10k2.2M
13kBTC100-1k3.0M
85kBTC10-1002.3M
250kBTC1-100.8M
340kBTC0.1-10.1M
230kBTC0.01-0.10.0M
90kBTC0.002-0.010.0M

Total: 12.2M bitcoins (0.5M bitcoins assumed lost)
legendary
Activity: 4466
Merit: 3391
You are guaranteed to be in the top 100 if you have more than 1% of the 13 million available bitcoins, or more than 130,000 BTC.

In the top ...If you have ...
100130,000
1,00013,000
10,0001,300
100,000130
1,000,00013

But because of the skew towards the top, the necessary amounts are probably actually much less.
legendary
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Merit: 1024
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Well 21 bit coins makes you 1 in a million.
legendary
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Reputation first.
To be in top 100 you must have more of 10.000 Bitcoin !

in Top 1000 you must have around 1300 Bitcoin Smiley

copper member
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THINK IT, BUILD IT, PLAY IT! --- XAYA
Top 1: 151,497 BTC ($93,074,379 USD)

The site obviously doesn't take Mark Karpeles into account...
legendary
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Merit: 1001
Not even part of the 1 BTC crew checkin in.

You need to "buyBTCpls."  Wink

If you are expecting people to just give them too you (based on your user name) I think you will just end up disappointed. It seems people are less likely to part with Bitcoin than even cash.  Many know how much they could be or should be worth.

sr. member
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Merit: 250
Not even part of the 1 BTC crew checkin in.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
It assumes that everyone would hold all of their savings in a single address which is a pretty wild assumption.

maybe the game we're playing is how much can u put in 1 address
sr. member
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It assumes that everyone would hold all of their savings in a single address which is a pretty wild assumption.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
Not sure if this is legit or not, but according to that site:

Top 1: 151,497 BTC ($93,074,379 USD)
Top 10: 53,019 BTC ($32,572,739 USD)
Top 100: 10,000 BTC ($6,143,629 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Top 1,000: 1,251 BTC ($768,783 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-10.html

Top 10,000: 106.80 BTC ($65,611 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-100.html

Unfortunately, it seems to end at page 100. And the private keys to many of these addresses could be lost or owned by Satoshi. It might be possible to calculate the balance required to get into the top 100,000 by using the table at the top of the page but the maths to do so would be pretty complicated.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that it is possible that a single person could own multiple addresses. And a single address can also house the funds of multiple people (e.g. an exchange's address).

Interesting. I would have expected the numbers to be a lot lower than that. Sad

So if you have 1 BTC, then you are part of the Top 323,130 since 208,406 + 99,800 + 13,390 + 1,434 + 98 + 2 = 323,130.
member
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Not sure if this is legit or not, but according to that site:

Top 1: 151,497 BTC ($93,074,379 USD)
Top 10: 53,019 BTC ($32,572,739 USD)
Top 100: 10,000 BTC ($6,143,629 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Top 1,000: 1,251 BTC ($768,783 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-10.html

Top 10,000: 106.80 BTC ($65,611 USD)
Link: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-100.html

Unfortunately, it seems to end at page 100. And the private keys to many of these addresses could be lost or owned by Satoshi. It might be possible to calculate the balance required to get into the top 100,000 by using the table at the top of the page but the maths to do so would be pretty complicated.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that it is possible that a single person could own multiple addresses. And a single address can also house the funds of multiple people (e.g. an exchange's address).
sr. member
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Merit: 250
You will never get true numbers because of Bitcoin's pseudonymity. The best you can do would be a randomized sample of the Bitcoin population and extrapolate from there. But that is probably easier said than done, as a large part of the user base wouldn't want to participate in that.
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
Does anyone know the exact numbers?

For example, you might need a balance of 1,000 BTC to be in the top 100, 10 BTC to be in the top 10,000, etc.

Note the above is just a random guess. I'm interested in finding the real numbers. It would be fascinating to see how my address containing 0.3 BTC stacks up compared to the other addresses in the Bitcoin community.
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