Online community Pump Dumb Coin has released a graph that shows the distribution of the number of bitcoin (BTC) tokens in circulation as of August 21. The graph, which has been widely relayed by members of the community on Twitter, divides this distribution into 12 categories, and shows that 41 million addresses around the world house a BTC wallet.
How many bitcoins are there in El Salvador?
A total of 3,219,371 addresses worldwide host bitcoin wallets ranging from 0 to 0.00001 BTC. This corresponds to 7.48% of the total addresses in the world. Together they contain 15.37 BTC.
According to details provided by the American presenter, Stacy Herbert, who praises President Bukele’s crypto policy, El Salvador is in the top 2,150 out of the 41 million existing addresses. According to data from last week, the country has 2,381 bitcoins.
In the second category, there are 7,998,082 addresses in the world with a wallet whose value is between 0.00001 BTC and 0.0001 BTC, which corresponds to 344.33 bitcoins. These addresses represent 18.59% of the total addresses.
In the third category, there are 10,601,068 addresses that have between 0.0001 BTC and 0.001 BTC in their wallets. This category has 4,105 BTC, or 24.64% of the total addresses.
The fourth category is for wallet holders with a value between 0.001 BTC and 0.01 BTC. 10,579,052 addresses were listed there, which together account for 40,248 bitcoins, the equivalent of 24.59% of the total addresses.
The 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th categories are the richest. Respectively, they include holders of 1 to 10 BTC (747,047 addresses, for 1,878,540 BTC), holders of 10 to 100 BTC (134,087 addresses for 4,316,406 BTC), holders of 100 to 1,000 BTC ( 13,799 addresses for 3,876,557 BTC), holders of 1,000 to 10,000 BTC (2,051 addresses for 4,927,969 BTC) and holders of 10,000 to 100,000 BTC (94 addresses for 2,183,938 bitcoins).
The last category includes wallet holders of 100,000 to 1,000,000 BTC. There are 5 in the world and together they own 780,741 bitcoins.
Of the 41 million addresses that hold BTC wallets, only 4,826 concentrate more than $10 million each. There are 65,121 addresses housing over $1 million, and over 255,000 addresses with $100,000 in BTC each. El Salvador, which is the first country to adopt BTC as legal tender, has 2,381 bitcoins.
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