

So money parked in Bitcoin is "using" it as long-term savings. Note: Many people use Bitcoin as part of their investment strategy. This is all despite a rising price, indicating that people are not moving funds around and are perhaps choosing to hold their positions to acquire deeper gains.

In March of 2021, daily active addresses dropped to around 720,000 active addresses. Kevin Rooke also offers some interesting data points on total number of days that exceed 1,000,000 active addresses. The chart below shows that going in to 2022 the monthly active addresses is around 30 million. This means there are, likely, 300,000 - 500,000 unique users either sending or receiving Bitcoin per day. There are between 700,000 and 1,000,000 active addresses per day. This number is deceiving, since one transaction can have multiple recipients. The Bitcoin network processes more than 270,000 transactions per day. It does not include transactions taking place on exchanges or centralized services. This section discusses on-chain Bitcoin users. If owning bitcoin means storing at least $1 worth of it in a Bitcoin wallet you own, there can't be more than ~30.5 million owners.įor instance, the chart below shows how many addresses store ANY bitcoin at all. So, the total number of people who own Bitcoin depends on how we want to define "own". The percentage went up to 43% for ages 18-39. The survey showed that 16% had invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency. Pew Research conducted a study in September 2021 of cryptocurrency awareness and ownership sampling 10,371 U.S.


Of those, 288 million hold no bitcoin in them at all today. On the left is a ball representing all 460 million bitcoin addresses to ever have a balance greater than 0.0 BTC. In the image below, this idea is illustrated. In 2021, estimates show there are 106 million people who own Bitcoin. The most common method of estimating the number of Bitcoin owners is look at the amount held in different addresses. As explained below there can only be an estimate of the number of people with Bitcoin. But the answer is: No one will ever know the amount of Bitcoin users in the world. This is a good question because it could indicate acceptance by a large number of people.
