arfonzo on Nostr: Rocking my #Bitcoin hoodie today and thinking about wholecoiners... Latest data from ...

Rocking my #Bitcoin hoodie today and thinking about wholecoiners...

Latest data from Glassnode (March 2026) says 988,000 addresses hold 1 #BTC or more. Of course with segwit, multi-wallet usage, exchange custody pools, lost wallets, the number of actual individuals goes down. Let's say we're now down to 600-700K individuals who are wholecoiners.

Wholecoiners are:
- ~0.6% of all bitcoin owners.
- ~0.008% of the human population: 1 out of every 12,300 people on Earth.
- ~85x rarer than millionaires.

The number keeps falling every cycle, not increasing: as scarcity in mining, lost coins, institutional custody take over. Wholecoiners are one of the most exclusive clubs on earth and gets more and more rare over time.

Really makes you think about the economics of scarcity!