Is there a way to determine the number of people who are actually using Bitcoin till date? Who would have access to such information? Meaning a way to find out, how many new people have used Bitcoin in 2016 , so that we can say exponential growth is natural not artificially created by hoarders.
It is too impossible to trace the actual number of people using bitcoin. Only different addresses that can be counting in the blockchain history, even in all exchange platform. But we can see the growth daily of the new users, in every hours or a minutes in the entire world.
Exactly it is not possible to calculate because many people will use multiple address for bitcoin transaction, so it is not possible to calculate according to block chain. At the same time many people investing different sectors of investment like rev share, doubling, chain system, so it is hard to find how many people are actually using bitcoin.