By ; Basel Khaled
Bitcoin has had a tremendous few last months, hitting a new all-time high price fuelled mainly by institutional investors. As more investors come on board, only a few addresses control a large percentage of the current 18.59 million Bitcoin supply.
Data presented by Buy Shares indicates that as of January 6, a total of 2,225 Bitcoin addresses control 5,447,017 BTC, which is 29.3% of the current BTC in supply. A total of 136,356 Bitcoin addresses contain 4,407,061 BTC, which is 23.71% of the asset’s supply as of January 6th, 2021.
On the other, 16,740,454 BTC addresses control the least amount of Bitcoin at 3,386. Only one address holds 141,452 BTC, which is 0.76% of BTC in supply.