The top 100 “dustiest Bitcoin addresses” have accumulated over 530 BTC since January 2023, now holding more than $88 million in BTC, collectively containing about 1,380 BTC.
According to BitInfoCharts data, since January 2010, these addresses have processed over $139 million in transactions. Interestingly, many of these small addresses are relatively new. Nine of the top ten received their first transaction after March 2023, with the newest among the top 100 being only five months old.
The top wallet among these dustiest addresses belongs to the Huobi crypto exchange, holding 12.46 BTC, worth around $792,000. This address has completed over 1.59 million transactions, representing 0.77% of all Bitcoin transactions.
Seventy-eight addresses are linked to F2Pool. The largest among them holds 2.47 BTC valued at approximately $172,737, with the rest presumed to involve a blend of retail and institutional investors.
According to BitInfoCharts, 82 of the top 100 dustiest addresses remained inactive in 2024, while the total number of Bitcoin wallets increased by 5.5% since the year’s start, reaching approximately 1.3 billion, with around 44 million having a non-zero balance.
The steady rise in non-zero Bitcoin addresses reflects increasing confidence in the Bitcoin network and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem, suggesting a positive outlook for Bitcoin’s future trajectory and adoption potential.
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