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.
Well I dont think there is a possible and easy way to know exactly the number of bitcoin users right now because bitcoin is mostly anonymous and one person can have a lot of accounts.
Its not totally impossible but if you have the intention of determining the number of people using bitcoin, it wont be as easy as pie but whats the point of this, you just know that there are more and more people join the bitcoin world everyday and bitcoin cant stop growing every minute.