Anybody want to do the math with me?
There are 10.5 million bitcoin addresses in existence and 5.7 million with balances equal to $1 or greater, according to this site:
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html.
Let's be generous and assume that of the 5.7m addresses that a different person owns each address. We know that's not true so this will be a very generous estimate.
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world.
That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin! So the scale of this poll isn't very realistic, but it's still fun to talk about.
Let's lower our population to just those that have access to the internet, because without the internet you can't really get your hands on any coin. (You even need the internet to buy one of Mike Caldwell's Casascius coins!)
There are 3.2 billion people with access to the internet.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=How+many+people+have+access+to+the+internet%3F5.7m people with a bitcoin address out of 3.2b people ups our digital currency savvy share of the population to ~0.0017%!Crazy small percentages. But that's ok. It means there's a lot of upside! We all just need to keep spreading the word.
Thanks for this simple math, not simple either but this is much more realistic than the other statistics that are coming out.
So the total of the users of bitcoin as of today are not even reaching 1% of the world's population, I'm not surprised either.
But if we are going to think about it since 2009, good thing that there are already 0.0017% of world's population in total who uses bitcoin.
That is really fast if we are going to think and technology is been very fast when it comes to adoption and innovation so for sure in 2020 this percentage is going to increase.