One can still remain anonymous even if he join this forum and stay active.One is not required to disclose his.her true identity on this forum and even if one voluntarily does so,there is no need to tell hoe many bitcoin one possess.

I think there is no way to know the exact number. Actually, there's a lot of people who are using bitcoin at the moment. In short, it's already countless. As time goes by, there's more and more people who are joining the world of bitcoin and this is actually good for bitcoin.

We just need to estimate the order of the magnitude. At present, there are fewer than 500,000 people.

It's a difficult question. The number of wallets would not be enough to determine a value, since a single user can have several wallets. In this case, only statistical research would give a good estimate.

That's why the number of people using or having used Bitcoin has little to no relevance for the purpose of assessing the dynamics of Bitcoin adoption. Just one individual (for example, a merchant) actively and heavily using Bitcoin on a daily basis would contribute to that purpose more than a dozen of Bitcoin newbies just testing waters with Bitcoin on some faucets. The said shouldn't be misconstrued as discrimination against people who are just learning about Bitcoin, though...

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, a number of transactions processed daily would much better serve that purpose

Let's face the facts. The first 3 years of its history Bitcoin had been virtually unknown to a wider world, consistently reaching 50k transactions per day only by the end of 2012:



Before 2012, the number of transactions is even hard to estimate accurately. After 2012 and till now, the number of transactions has increased fivefold, though it took over 2 years to grow from 50k to just 100k (2013-mid 2015). Within the last 12 or so months this number increased over two times. Okay, Visa or Mastercard are most likely processing a lot more transactions (I don't really know by how much, so everyone is welcome to chime in on this), but what would happen to the Bitcoin network if the number of pending transactions all of a sudden grew a dozen times? Would the network be able to process, say, 2,500k transactions daily? And a 250k city is by no means a tiny one, to be honest (I guess that over 90% of all cities around the world are less than that)...

Even if totally omitting that such an analogy is meaningless itself (like your other analogies)

That's a long time in cyberspace dude. Pokémon Go is six month old and has 26 million daily users. Within two years most social media sites (facebook, MySpace, etc.) had millions of users. Apple Pay is two years old and has 4 million users. AmazonPayments had over 2 million users the first year of operation. In 2012, a stock of about 17 million M-Pesa accounts had been registered in Kenya alone. That's after only 5 years in operation. In cyberspace 6 years is an eternity. Bitcoin is becoming the grandfather of online payment systems.

Provide the links to your data, about the average total number of the wallet, are using by bitcoiners are need more researchers and taking some sample of bitcoiners.
If there are 20 address and 10 bitcoin users and how many the actual number of the bitcoin address owned by each bitcoiners, but i don't talk about an average number of owned the address of bitcoin?
For supporting the assumption are need more supported.

No one can tell the actual number of people who uses Bitcoin!
First of all, Bitcoin is being use anonymously. Second, it is decentralized so there is no accurate information for the total number of users. Third, many people has duplicate wallets in different wallet providers so again, the data might be inaccurate if you will based on the number of wallets created. And lastly, there are lots of new Bitcoin users everyday so the number continuously increasing!

You have to be clear, are you talking about empty wallets (with zero transactions), or wallets with a balance, or wallets that had a balance but are empty now?


I use like 20 wallets at this point.


Don't forget that the largest exchanges have tens of thousands of addresses just belonging to them. And that's with one exchange. And as you know, there are plenty. Then we have online wallet services, mixers, gambling sites, faucet sites, etc. The far majority of these wallets do belong to one of these services.