In retrospect I don't like some of the wording I used back then but I still think the conclusion of this post is a good insight

tomlaies

I like this approach a lot. I wrote about it 2 years ago on Stacker News:

There are 21 million Bitcoin - we could calculate with 18 million or even 14 billion since many Bitcoin are probably lost forever - this is also something we cannot know and cannot adjust for - so let's use 21 million.

With an equal distribution (unrealistic, hear me out first) we would have 0.002625 Bitcoin per person. Do you own 262500 Sats? If yes, congratulations, you are an average human in an hyperbitcoinized utopia with equal distribution.
Let's use a distribution that is more realistic. Imagine the top 10% of people own 50% of all Bitcoin [...]

bitcoin_beginners

Satoshis Per Person - Very Cool Stats Page

jasonb

I like this approach a lot. I wrote about it 2 years ago on Stacker News:

> There are 21 million Bitcoin - we could calculate with 18 million or even 14 billion since many Bitcoin are probably lost forever - this is also something we cannot know and cannot adjust for - so let's use 21 million.

> With an equal distribution (unrealistic, hear me out first) we would have 0.002625 Bitcoin per person. Do you own 262500 Sats? If yes, congratulations, you are an average human in an hyperbitcoinized utopia with equal distribution.
> Let's use a distribution that is more realistic. Imagine the top 10% of people own 50% of all Bitcoin [...]

https://stacker.news/items/51272