Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [user-base]

Regarding the community of Bitcoin users.

21 questions
20
votes
6 answers

Is there data on the geographic distribution of bitcoin users?

If you are a company wanting to adopt bitcoin as a payment method or an academic wanting to study the bitcoin market it is important to know as much as possible about the bitcoin users. Since bitcoin is pseudonomous it is hard to gather direct…
Artem Kaznatcheev
  • 2,016
  • 2
  • 15
  • 24
16
votes
7 answers

Any statistics on usage of Bitcoins by region or country?

I would like to know if there are any statistics on turnover of Bitcoins for each country in the world. A very rough way would be to get a statistic on which traffic to Bitcoin.org by country.
David
  • 3,444
  • 2
  • 27
  • 37
9
votes
3 answers

How can you tell how many users Bitcoin has?

Impossible to answer accurately, but I suppose one could come up with educated guesses and ballpark figures from the number of nodes on the network, or number of users on popular wallet services.
Thilo
  • 4,751
  • 5
  • 25
  • 37
6
votes
6 answers

Beginning 2017 what estimate of individuals own bitcoin?

How many different individuals in the world own bitcoin? I.e. John owns .5btc, Michelle 300btc, Al 4000btc : the answer would be 3. I am interested in the percent of the global population that owns bitcoin as it would be a good indicator of the…
Josh
  • 630
  • 1
  • 7
  • 20
5
votes
3 answers

Are there statistics on how Bitcoin holdings are spread among addresses?

I'm aware an address can belong to multiple people, and one person can have multiple addresses. Still, I'd like to assume the number of accounts per person is O(1) on average. Are there statistics on how much the bitcoin holdings are spread between…
ripper234
  • 26,452
  • 30
  • 111
  • 246
5
votes
3 answers

Demographics on Bitcoin users?

Speaking with a large group about Bitcoins lately, I noticed that most people there came to like Bitcoins for different reasons. The shady ppl wanted drugs, the accountants wanted to avoid taxes, the Ron Paul people wanted more personal liberty and…
AnCapLuke
  • 51
  • 2
5
votes
4 answers

What are some of the things that would make bitcoin better and more accepted?

More trade... more trust... more btc 'banks'...? It is such a great system. It just needs to go main stream. Any thoughts?
Liberty
  • 59
  • 1
3
votes
1 answer

Will the Liquid sidechain be open to any user?

With the recent start of the private beta of Liquid, the first sidechain is now in production on the Bitcoin network. One of the features advertised is: User Control – Users can hold their Liquid funds off of exchanges and in a wallet they…
Murch
  • 71,155
  • 33
  • 180
  • 600
3
votes
2 answers

Is mining difficulty leveling out (Spring 2015)? How does this affect the economics of Bitcoin?

Bitcoin mining difficulty has been through some interesting ups and downs lately. (I've supplied snapshots below to give context for future readers) Considering its long history of pretty much only going up for years, I'm wondering what people…
frеdsbend
  • 1,668
  • 3
  • 21
  • 39
3
votes
2 answers

How to get statistics about Bitcoin users?

Because each Bitcoin user can operate multiple Bitcoin clients and wallets, and not every user runs the client constantly, it seems very difficult to gather data about the Bitcoin community. It's clear that many people in the community will want to…
Highly Irregular
  • 10,910
  • 6
  • 52
  • 102
3
votes
2 answers

Could speculation some day rise bitcoin to the moon?

I saw too many questions about bitcoin losing value. But in my view, 21 million bitcoins is relatively less money (ie., units) than other currencies. Why wouldn't Bitcoin's value rise simply due to supply/demand when it is used more widely?
H_7
  • 983
  • 2
  • 10
  • 14
3
votes
2 answers

Scalability problem: is the end of Bitcoin near?

I was reading in Wikipedia that the blockchain can only handle around 7 transactions per second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem With the soft fork for SegWi, I can imagine it could handle a little bit more, maybe 10…
user1883212
  • 147
  • 1
  • 2
2
votes
2 answers

Who is the target audience?

I can not stop asking myself the question, what problem does bitcoin actually solve? Before you accuse me of being lazy and not doing any research, here is my thought process: You want to have a decentral stable currency, (where trust is not…
Felix B.
  • 121
  • 3
2
votes
3 answers

How many people own crypto currencies?

Is there an estimate on how many people in total own some cryptocurrencies? How is this distributed among bitcoin and altcoins?
Doug Peters
  • 1,366
  • 14
  • 23
1
vote
1 answer

how a system based on a blockchain would deal with exponential growth of informations carried in it?

I was reading this article about the difference between a blockchain and centralized servers and a question came up to my mind: if I understand well the difference stands in the fact that in a blockchain there isn't a centralized server that…
agneau
  • 113
  • 2
1
2