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Bitcoin is in the same hands: 27% of the entire bitcoin circulation on the crypto market is held by 0.01 holders

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27% of the total circulation of bitcoin on the crypto market is held by 0.01 holders. Recently, a new study was conducted, where it was shown that a small circle of people owns almost 30% of the total circulation of bitcoin.

This study was conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In a study by this bureau, it was shown that 0.01% or 10,000 investors own 5 million coins out of 18.903 million bitcoins that are on the crypto market.

The total amount of bitcoin, which is available on the wallets of a small proportion of investors, is more than $230 billion. This study shows that bitcoin is not as decentralized as many would like.

Antoinette Shoar from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is sure that this study is very useful. In particular, it opens the eyes of all those crypto enthusiasts who believe that bitcoin is the best decentralized tool that can only be.

Shoar believes that bitcoin is by no means decentralized, and during its existence, namely for 14 years, it represents a very verified and concentrated ecosystem.

Based on the white paper of bitcoin, decentralization is one of the key principles of bitcoin, and this study can have a bad impact on its reputation.

It turns out that the lion's share of the entire circulation of bitcoin falls on venture capital companies, giant corporations and just billionaires.

This significantly impairs the functioning of a healthy ecosystem within the bitcoin network. In the future, a very significant amount of bitcoins may also be lost. A significant part of the coins in circulation is also not controlled by anyone and can simply be withdrawn from circulation.

According to the analytical data of the CoinCover crypto insurance company, more than 4 million bitcoins have already been withdrawn from circulation due to loss of access.

Vitaly Kolesnikov,
Especialista em análise na InstaForex
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