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Bitcoin\u2019s resurgence in 2023 has created wealth for many crypto investors, as there has been a significant rise in the number of Bitcoin millionaires. These Bitcoin millionaires happen to be wallet addresses whose BTC holdings equal $1 million or above.\u00a0 Number Of Bitcoin Millionaires According to data from BitInfoCharts, there are currently 97,497 Bitcoin millionaires. This represents a significant increase from the beginning of the year when the number of wallet addresses equal to $1 million and above stood at 23,795, according to data from Glassnode.\u00a0 Related Reading: Why Did The XRP Price Surge To $0.64 Today? This development is attributed to the resurgence in Bitcoin\u2019s price this year, with the crypto token seeing over 158% gain year-to-date. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin\u2019s price stood at just over $16,000. However, as the flagship cryptocurrency\u2019s price began to rise, so did its number of millionaires.\u00a0 Further data from BitInfoCharts breaks down these Bitcoin millionaires into two categories. The number of addresses that are greater than $1 million stands at 90,040, while 7,457 wallet addresses hold $10 million or more.\u00a0 Meanwhile, other addresses below $1 million have also seen enormous profits. Market intelligence platform Santiment recently reported that 89% of the total Bitcoin supply is in profits. 2024 could be a better year for these addresses, considering that the Bull market is expected to kickstart next year.\u00a0 In the meantime, some of these Bitcoin millionaires and persons with significant holdings seem to be taking profits. NewsBTC recently reported how Bitcoin whales had sold around 50,000 BTC which equals to about $2.2 billion.\u00a0 BTC price retraces to $42,600 | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com About Two Weeks To Go For Spot ETFs One of the biggest moments for Bitcoin and the crypto industry could come as early as January 10. This is around the period when experts are predicting that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will approve the pending Spot Bitcoin ETFs, and there is optimism in the air as many actions point to an approval happening.\u00a0 Related Reading: Crypto Analyst Predicts XRP Price Will Hit $1.33 \u2018Pretty Fast\u2019 Crypto stakeholders have had their eyes fixed on developments revolving around these Spot Bitcoin ETFs. The reason isn\u2019t farfetched, as these funds could unlock fresh liquidity into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Trading firm QCP Capital had highlighted this as the catalyst to Bitcoin hitting its all-time high (ATH) and possibly new ATHs.\u00a0 At the same time, people like the former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, will be hoping that these ETFs don\u2019t achieve much success as he says they could lead to Bitcoin\u2019s downfall.\u00a0 At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $42,678.76, down over 1% in the last 24 hours according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Crypto News, chart from Tradingview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":566992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,85222,656,679,1119,90981,89185,1144,78790],"class_list":["post-566983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-millionaires","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-btc","tag-btc-millionaires","tag-btc-news","tag-btcusd","tag-btcusdt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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