🧵 Who really holds the most Bitcoin in 2025? 🥇 As the king of cryptocurrencies continues to hit all-time highs, many are wondering who controls the largest stocks of BTC today? The answer in this thread 👇
Exchanges, major players! Some cold wallets from exchanges hold impressive amounts: 🥇 Binance (wallet #1): 248,598 BTC 🥈 Bitfinex: 159,189 BTC 🥉 Robinhood: 140,575 BTC In total, over 2.4 million BTC are stored by CEX 📦
Companies, and more specifically "Bitcoin Treasury Companies," are accumulating massively! Michael Saylor and Strategy Inc. dominate this ranking with 601,550 BTC 🥇 Next up: 🔸 Block One: 140,000 BTC 🔸 Tether: 100,511 BTC 🔸 Xapo Bank: 38,931 BTC 🔸 Twenty One Capital: 37,230 BTC 🇫🇷 Special mention to The Blockchain Group, one of the only French representatives, with 1,933 BTC.
ETF issuers are exploding everything. Even if they are not "owners" in the strict sense, the ETFs hold for their clients: 🔸 BlackRock (iShares): 717,388 BTC 🔸 Fidelity: 206,845 BTC 🔸 Grayscale: 183,725 BTC 🔸 ARK 21Shares: 50,423 BTC 🔸 Bitwise: 40,850 BTC ➡️ In total, the top 15 ETFs hold over 1.4 million $BTC 🤯
⛏️ Miners also hold significant amounts of BTC, often from unsold block rewards. Here are the biggest players: 🔸 MARA: 50,000 BTC 🔸 Riot Platforms: 19,225 BTC 🔸 CleanSpark: 12,608 BTC 🔸 Hut 8 Mining: 10,273 BTC 🔸 HIVE Digital Technologies: 2,201 BTC
Some individuals also hold fortunes in BTC. At the top, we find pioneers, visionary investors… and a few mysteries: 🥇 Satoshi Nakamoto: 1.1 million BTC 🥈 Gavin Andresen: about 100,000 BTC 🥉 Anonymous wallet (possibly linked to an early hack): 79,957 BTC 🔹 The Winklevoss twins: about 70,000 BTC 🔹 Tim Draper: about 30,000 BTC Individual whales remain a discreet yet massive pillar of the #Bitcoin ecosystem 🐳
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