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[[Bitcoin billionaires]] – are people who have grown rich on [[bitcoin|bitcoins]]. Given that this [[cryptocurrency]] is showing unprecedented growth, it is obvious that many people wanted to make a fortune just by keeping [[bitcoin|bitcoins]] for the last several years. Officially, at the beginning of December 2017, the balance of only two [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]] exceeds $ 1 billion. But the inventor of [[bitcoin]], [[Satoshi]] Nakamoto, is unofficially considered to be the richest bitcoin holder.

== Statistics ==
According to stock market reports, the capitalization of [[bitcoin]] on December 4 is more than $ 190.727 billion. At the same time, based upon the statistics of Bitinfocharts.com portal, at the beginning of December, 1953 addresses have more than $ 10 million on their balance sheet, 20,381 wallets have a balance of more than $ 1,000,000, and 166,045 ones - more than $ 100,000.

According to the website, 1.55% of all bitcoins belong to only two [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]] with a balance of 119,203 [[bitcoin|BTC]] and 139,966 [[BTC|[[bitcoin]] (or $ 1,372,145,733 and $ 1,611,148,626). And the "richest" wallet in the period from 3 to 4 December bought another 12,372 BTC ($ 142.4 million), and was registered in January 2017. In the first hundred [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]] with the largest balance sheet, about 40 were also created in 2017.

112 wallets have from 10 to 100 thousand [[bitcoin|bitcoins]] on the balance sheet. More than half of the [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]], or 13,440,563, have a balance of less than 0.001 [[bitcoin|bitcoins]], or about 11.5 dollars or less. Their total capital is about $ 27 million. 534,096 wallets have a balance from 1 to 10 [[bitcoin|bitcoins]], or from about $ 11,500 to $ 115,000 (as of December 4). 16 265 [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]] have from 100 to 1000 coins.

In this case, it is worth considering that all[[bitcoin|bitcoins]]. wallets]] are anonymous, and one user can have several [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]] at once, therefore, it is difficult to draw precise conclusions from this picture.

== Known bitcoin billionaires ==

According to some reports, the inventor of this [[cryptocurrency]], hiding under the name of [[Satoshi]] Nakamoto, keeps the greatest number of [[bitcoin|bitcoins]]. It is considered that immediately after the creation of [[bitcoin]], he was able to mine about 980 000 coins. In terms of the bitcoin rate on December 4, 2017, it's about $ 11.28 billion. Apparently, [[Satoshi]] Nakamoto does not perform any operations with these [[bitcoin|bitcoins]], they are just kept in his [[bitcoin wallet|wallets]].

More media people who have made their financial success on bitcoins public are the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. They are known for accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas for Facebook and went into litigation with him in this connection.

Of $ 65 million that Zuckerberg paid to the Winklevoss brothers, they invested $ 11 million in bitcoin in 2013. Recently, the British media called them the first [[Bitcoin]] billionaires: after the rapid rise of the [[bitcoin]] [[exchanges|exchange]] rate, their investments returned to them with a hundredfold profit.

Legalization of bitcoin capital

Many states have not yet defined their position for [[bitcoin]]. Nevertheless, the size of the sums that users of [[bitcoin wallet|bitcoin wallets]] possess makes the governments of the countries to look for solutions on this question.

For example, in the United States bitcoin is recognized as property, not [[cryptocurrency|currency]], and all transactions with it are [[Transaction commission|taxed]], like any [[Transaction confirmation|transactions]] with property. Sellers who approve [[Bitcoin|bitcoins]] for payment should also indicate profits with them in their declarations. Like miners, which are required to add their profits from [[mining]] into gross annual income.

In the EU, [[bitcoin]] is recognized as a currency, some transactions with it are subject to income tax or capital gains tax. Different approaches can be used in different EU countries.

In Japan, [[Bitcoin|bitcoins]] are full-fledged payment instruments along with fiat [[cryptocurrency|currencies]], so incomes from transactions with them are also [[Transaction commission|taxed]].

In Russia, the legal [[status]] of [[cryptocurrency|cryptocurrencies]] has not been fully decided. It is planned to adopt the relevant bill in the summer of 2018.

== See also ==

* [[Cryptocurrency market]]

* [[Bitcoin news]]

* [[Bitcoin ATM]]

* [[cryptocurrency]]

== References ==
https://bitinfocharts.com/ru/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

http://www.theweek.co.uk/90153/who-are-the-bitcoin-billionaires

https://www.coingecko.com/ru/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%8B/%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0
[[ru: Миллиардеры Биткоинов]]
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