According to Bloomberg: A few large holders "whales" [...] continue to own most Bitcoin. About 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on the cryptocurrency’s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset [...]
A further breakdown shows that whales own 92.4% of the 2%, while crypto exchanges account for nearly 7% [...], while whales accounted for 92.3% of the biggest holders [...]<p>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/bitcoin-whales-ownership-concentration-is-rising-during-rally<p>Has it been identified who that is?
Aren't the biggest addresses all cold storage for exchanges, funds, etc? Those coins are not owned by a single "whale", they belong to thousands of users and investors of the exchanges and funds. It is misleading to look at a single address and assume that a single person owns every coin in it.
It is interesting to see the growth of large holders in the last 24 months.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190224141009/https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20190224141009/https://bitinfoch...</a><p><a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html" rel="nofollow">https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....</a>