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How many bitcoin addresses are there?

196,385,600,286,334,710,857,791,565,804,391,698,421 Bitcoin addresses. That is just a smaller incomprehensible number. So instead, we’re going to use grains of sand. There are 2^63 grains of sand on all of the beaches of Earth, combined . That’s roughly 9 quintillion grains of sand (or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808).

How many people own bitcoin?

While it’s hard to tell how many people own Bitcoin because of factors we will soon discuss, the cryptocurrency’s supply is a different story. Only 21 million Bitcoins exist in the world due to Bitcoin’s blockchain set-up. While some cryptocurrencies present investors with an unlimited supply, Bitcoin has a limited supply of available coins.

How many addresses have 1 BTC?

As you can see, there are 633,008 addresses that have at least 1 BTC (1.68 million coins in total), which is 2.18% of all addresses out there. However, one address doesn’t necessarily equal one person, so we’ll have to dig deeper in order to obtain a realistic range.

What if there were 1 billion wallet addresses with Bitcoin inside?

Even if there were 1 billion wallet addresses with Bitcoin inside, the Sun will have expanded and engulfed the Earth (set to happen about 7.5 billion years from now) long before one of those addresses could be found with a random generator. The original reason why addresses were public key hashes is something you'll need to ask Satoshi. Worry Not…

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