As of January 2020 the number of entities holding Bitcoin is ~23.1 million. This is 18.5% less than the current number of non–zero addresses (~28.4 million).
The daily net growth of entities is consistently positive: In Bitcoin’s history there have been only 21 days so far in which the net entity growth was negative. A clear indication of a healthy and consistent adoption of Bitcoin over the past 10 years.
Number of Whales, entities that hold ≥ 1,000 BTC.

Even though both curves show similar trends, the counts of addresses and entities holding ≥ 1,000 BTC differ significantly providing a more exact estimate of whale behaviour at particular points in the market cycles.
Distribution Statistics: Number of addresses controlled by an entity

A clear power–law relationship, with entities’ sizes raging from a single address up to entity clusters consisting of almost 22 million addresses (Coinbase).
Note: The bulk of our clustered entities (~96%) still consist of a single addresses. Therefore our numbers serve as a strict upper limit for the number of Bitcoin entities. Including potential missing links the actual number is possibly lower than our provided upper boundary.
Distribution of number of entities with respect to their Bitcoin balance.

there are 75 entities that hold 10,000 or more BTC, and 7 entities than hold 100,000 or more BTC — all of which are exchanges.
These 7 richest entities (exchanges) control over 2,350,000 BTC. That is ~13% of the circulating Bitcoin supply.

Coinbase (983,800 BTC)
Huobi (369,100 BTC)
Binance (240,700 BTC)
Bitfinex (214,600 BTC)
Bitstamp (165,400 BTC)
Kraken (132,100 BTC)
Bittrex (118,100 BTC)
Balance distribution of ENTITIES in the Bitcoin network (january 2020)

> 0.001 BTC — 14,159,091
> 0.01 BTC — 7,509,943
> 0.1 BTC — 2,719,304
> 1 BTC — 757,938
> 10 BTC — 149,793
> 100 BTC — 15,706
> 1000 BTC — 1,905
> 10,000 BTC — 75
> 100,000 BTC — 7
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