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

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.

users or owners?