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Cryptocurrency “whales” control more than half of all the mined bitcoins

The experts of the company Diar revealed that more than 50% of all the mined bitcoins are controlled by the so-called "whales".

The “whales” have about 55% of all the bitcoins and store in the wallets with the balance of more than 200 BTC or $ 1.25 million. The wallets over 100 BTC own 62% of all the bitcoins. It is noteworthy that 1/3 of the dominant digital currency lies in the wallets in general without any outgoing transactions.

The experts believe that one should not forget about the existence of cryptocurrency exchanges with the reserve of cryptocurrency. At five addresses, exactly belonging to stock exchanges, 3.8% of all bitcoins are stored – this is about $ 4.2 billion.

Also, the analysts do not exclude the possibility that a certain number of the owners have forgotten their private keys and lost bitcoins. Such forgotten funds amount to almost $ 20 billion.

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