Bitcoin just reached $104,000, but who owns the most Bitcoin?

Satoshi Nakamoto owns the most bitcoin with an estimated 1.1 million BTC. Satoshi not only invented but also launched Bitcoin by becoming the first miner to create transaction blocks. It is estimated that Satoshi mined over 22,000 blocks starting from January 3, 2009, and received over a million bitcoins in accumulated block rewards for this work.

How much Bitcoin does Satoshi have?

As a result, Satoshi is estimated to have over 1.1 million BTC, worth about $113 billion by December 2024. This bitcoin is not stored in one address but is spread across about 22,000 addresses. None of it has been spent apart from a few experimental transactions. Satoshi left the project in 2010 and has had no information since then.

Individual Bitcoin whales

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: After settling with Mark Zuckerberg in 2008 for Facebook shares and cash worth $65 million, this duo founded an angel investment firm. A few years later, they announced that they had purchased about $11 million worth of bitcoin at an average price of $10 each. It is estimated that the Winklevoss twins own ~70,000 BTC.

Tim Draper: This VC mogul has been interested in Bitcoin for a while; so much so that he made an initial purchase of 40,000 BTC at the Mt Gox exchange.

Unfortunately, all 40,000 coins were lost in the subsequent hack and bankruptcy. However, in 2014, Mr. Draper purchased 29,656 BTC for $18.7 million with a cost basis of about $632 per coin.

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