Who Owns The Bitcoin?

Question

According to Bloomberg: A few large holders "whales" [...] continue to own most Bitcoin. About 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on the cryptocurrency&rsquo;s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset [...] A further breakdown shows that whales own 92.4% of the 2%, while crypto exchanges account for nearly 7% [...], while whales accounted for 92.3% of the biggest holders [...]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/bitcoin-whales-ownership-concentration-is-rising-during-rallyHas it been identified who that is?

modeless · Accepted Answer

Aren't the biggest addresses all cold storage for exchanges, funds, etc? Those coins are not owned by a single "whale", they belong to thousands of users and investors of the exchanges and funds. It is misleading to look at a single address and assume that a single person owns every coin in it.

Jimmc414 · Answer

It is interesting to see the growth of large holders in the last 24 months.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190224141009/https://bitinfoch...
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....

chovybizzass · Answer

roger ver is a billionaire i believe. he got in very early.also the winklvoss twins bought 200,000 btc at $7.

throwawayyy6 · Answer

Mircea Popescu

kmichal456 · Answer

Whoever owns 51% of mining nodes owns bitcoin.