{"id":33382,"date":"2020-12-15T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33382"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:34:10","slug":"the-number-of-bitcoin-addresses-with-non-zero-balances-has-reached-an-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/the-number-of-bitcoin-addresses-with-non-zero-balances-has-reached-an-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of Bitcoin addresses with non-zero balances has reached an all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Bitcoin addresses with non-zero balance has reached an all-time high.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows a rapid rise in the metric, briefly interrupted in early 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119553\" style=\"width: 1533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119553\" class=\"wp-image-119553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Non-Zero-Balance-1.png\" alt=\"\u0427\u0438\u0441\u043b\u043e \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0430\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u0441 \u043d\u0435\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0435\u0432\u044b\u043c \u0431\u0430\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043e\u043c \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u043e \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\" width=\"1523\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Non-Zero-Balance-1.png 1523w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Non-Zero-Balance-1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Non-Zero-Balance-1-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Non-Zero-Balance-1-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1523px) 100vw, 1523px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;m=addresses.NonZeroCount&#038;s=1451621021&#038;u=1607990400&#038;zoom=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glassnode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Equally convincingly, the number of wallets with a balance above 1 BTC is rising. Recently the metric hit a new high at 827,105, rebounding after a small dip at the end of September.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119552\" style=\"width: 1532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119552\" class=\"wp-image-119552 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-BTC-1.png\" alt=\"\u0427\u0438\u0441\u043b\u043e \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0430\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u0441 \u043d\u0435\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0435\u0432\u044b\u043c \u0431\u0430\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043e\u043c \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u043e \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\" width=\"1522\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-BTC-1.png 1522w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-BTC-1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-BTC-1-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-BTC-1-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1522px) 100vw, 1522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;category=Addresses&#038;m=addresses.MinPoint1Count&#038;s=1451621021&#038;u=1607990400&#038;zoom=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glassnode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The realized capitalization metric also reached a record around $150 billion. It accounts for the price at the last on-chain activity of coins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> Realized Cap (entity-adjusted) has reached $150 billion!<\/p>\n<p>It has increased a whooping 50% since the beginning of the year, and 25% in the past two months alone.<\/p>\n<p>Entity-adjustment accounts for BTC that actually changes hands.<\/p>\n<p>Chart \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dIJVn0ICla\">https:\/\/t.co\/dIJVn0ICla<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xvnqvklPDZ\">pic.twitter.com\/xvnqvklPDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 glassnode (@glassnode) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glassnode\/status\/1338578136586457088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since December 2017, when the price of Bitcoin rose to an all-time high of $20,000, realized capitalization has retraced several times. The last sizable drop\u2014from $106 billion to $101 billion\u2014occurred in March\u2013April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A steady rise in the number of non-zero-balance wallets and in the realized capitalization may indicate growing retail use of cryptocurrency, significant on-chain activity, and the irreversibility of mass adoption of digital gold.<\/p>\n<p>As of late December, the number of whale wallets <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/glassnode-bitcoin-whale-count-hits-all-time-high\">hit a new high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Bitcoin addresses with non-zero balance has approached the 33 million mark, hitting an all-time high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1320,18,1273],"class_list":["post-33382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-address","tag-bitcoin","tag-glassnode"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33384,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33382\/revisions\/33384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}