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by dumbfoundded 2805 days ago
> 1) The distribution of bitcoins among individuals is not known, any claim to the contrary is false.

How can this be true? Bitcoin is a public ledger and you see every accounts balance. If anything the publicly available account balances seem like a lower bound for the Gini coefficient as it is very likely people have multiple wallets (especially with large balances) where it's unlikely any group of people shares the same wallet (creating and distributing funds among multiple wallets is more secure and trivial).

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Lots of people (millions) share the same wallets (technically addresses), as they hold coins on exchanges. The richest bitcoin addresses are the cold storage for the exchanges.

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....

That's a great point.