Currently 89% of the world’s maximum bitcoin supply has been mined – 18.59 million bitcoins. Much of these coins belong to crypto whales. Today we have gathered the top 5 largest Bitcoin wallets in the world:
- The inventor of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto may own the largest Bitcoin wallet in the world. The number of Satoshi’s bitcoins is being actively discussed, but it is rumored to exceed one million.
- You may be surprised to learn that Bulgaria has one of the largest bitcoin repositories in the world – more than 213,000. The value of Bulgaria’s bitcoin reserves actually exceeds the value of their gold holdings. There were rumors that they seized a huge number of coins from cybercriminals.
- Сryptocurrency exchanges BitFinex own one of the largest cold Bitcoin wallets in the world – more than 163,000 coins ($6.5 billion). In this way, they store their wealth in order to protect it from hackers and cybersecurity breaches.
- The FBI has one of the largest bitcoin wallets in the world since the closure of the illegal Silk Road online market. It is reported that the initial number of bitcoins confiscated from the platform’s founder Ross Ulbricht was a staggering 600,000! However, the FBI was only able to access 144,000 coins because most of them were protected by high-level encryption.
- Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. About these twins we already told you in one of our previous posts. They are the world’s first bitcoin billionaires. According to Forbes, the current fortune of the Winklevoss brothers is about $ 4.4 billion for each.