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who cares? Nobody owns it anyway.. This is what I don't get. They say only 1000 ppl own Bitcoin. So why the popularity? I mean who cares if those 1000 ppl get rich or lose all their money?

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1000?! Where did you get that number from? Coinbase has 650.000 users alone...

users or owners?

There was some headline about a week ago that said roughly 1000 people own half of all bitcoins.

Bitcoin is deflationary, a very non-trivial amounts of bitcoins are lost forever.

True, but the total amount of bitcoin owners are in the millions. AznHisoka stated that only 1000 people own bitcoins, which is simply not true.

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