Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, owns the most Bitcoin in 2025. They own 968,000 Bitcoin, which is worth approximately ~$162 billion today. Nakamoto left the Bitcoin project in December 2010 and hasn’t touched their Bitcoin since.
Strategy
In terms of identifiable Bitcoin owners, Strategy – a software firm previously known as “MicroStrategy” – currently holds the most Bitcoin by a long shot. As of June 2025, Strategy owns around 597,325,000 Bitcoin, worth approximately ~$99.79 billion at the time of writing.
Since 2020, Strategy has been consistently buying up Bitcoin and adding it to its balance sheet. The company currently holds about 2.8424% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist
Other major corporate Bitcoin owners
Two distant corporate runners up in the race are US crypto mining company Marathon Digital Holdings Inc with 49,179 Bitcoin worth approximately $8.12 billion, and Twenty One Capital with 37,229 Bitcoin worth approximately $6.15 billion.
Other notable corporations that hold Bitcoin include Elon Musk’s Tesla with 11,509 Bitcoin on its balance sheet, and GameStop with 4,719 Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Billionaires
Perhaps the most well-known Bitcoin billionaire is Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of Strategy. Saylor, a vocal Bitcoin believer, disclosed in October 2020 that he owns 17,732 Bitcoins.
Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of Strategy
Following Saylor are twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. The Winklevoss twins, who are known for investing in early stage startups, revealed back in 2013 that they owned 1% of all Bitcoins in circulation via their family office Winklevoss Capital.
People or entities who hold a staggering amount of Bitcoin, and therefore are capable of influencing the crypto market, are known as “whales”. In early July, a mysterious Bitcoin whale finally moved their Bitcoin wallet after leaving it untouched for 14 years. They owned 80,000 Bitcoins, which is worth about $13.2 billion today.
Who owns the most Bitcoin in Australia?
Of the 31% of Aussies who hold crypto and Bitcoin in Australia, millennials own the most Bitcoin and crypto, with 52.9% aged 25-34 owning Bitcoin and crypto.
Worldwide ownership
As of now, out of the 21 million Bitcoin, there are about 1.38 million Bitcoin left that’s yet to be mined.
Crypto payments company Triple-A revealed that over 560 million people worldwide own crypto. Among those people, an estimated 106 million people hold Bitcoin.
Due to the anonymity of the Bitcoin blockchain, it’s tricky to identify individual Bitcoin owners. However, crypto wallet addresses and visitor numbers on a crypto exchange’s website give us clues.
Based on public wallet addresses, the top 10 crypto wallets hold roughly 5.5% of all the Bitcoin currently available.
How much does it cost to buy Bitcoin in Australia?
As of writing, a single Bitcoin is currently worth $171,070. A lot of beginner investors might not know this, but you don’t have to buy one “whole Bitcoin”. You can always purchase a fraction of a Bitcoin, or as low as $50 worth of Bitcoin – this is equal to about 0.0003 Bitcoin.
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How to buy Bitcoin in Australia?
You can easily buy Bitcoin with a range of payment options, including:
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