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Number of Bitcoin millionaire wallets triples in 2023

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Over 81,000 wallet addresses now hold $1 million or more worth of Bitcoin. The number of crypto wallet addresses holding more than $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC) has more than tripled this year.  BitInfoCharts data shows the number of addresses with more than $1 million in BTC increased from 23,795 on Jan. 1 to 81,925 currently, a 237% increase in the last 11 months. Currently, 81,925 wallet addresses hold more than $1 million in BTC. Source: BitInfoCharts The million aire wallet s are not one-to-one with individual users as many addresses with more than $1 million BTC belong to crypto exchanges and financial institutions. Comparative data from Glassnode shows the number of addresses holding more than $1 million in Bitcoin peaked during the top of the last bull market in November 2021, posting a record 112,573 addresses on Nov. 9, 2021, the day before Bitcoin notched its all-time high of $69,000 on Nov. 10, 2021. The number of “millionaire” Bitcoin wallets has grown more than 237% fr...

Ethereum users are increasingly demanding self-custody: Casa CTO

Security expert Jameson Lopp said some users lost Ethereum tokens because of the lack of a secure storage method. The demand for Ethereum self-custody solutions is growing, according to Jameson Lopp, co-founder and chief technology officer of Bitcoin wallet provider Casa. In a conversation with Cointelegraph at Bitcoin 2023, Lopp stated that Casa has found it necessary to provide Ethereum support due to the increased number of Ethereum users seeking the service. Incidents like the collapse of FTX in 2022 have raised awareness of the need for a secure way to store Ethereum and Ethereum tokens such as stablecoins, Lopp said: “I’ve actually spoken to Casa clients who suffered losses as a result of some of the collapses last year. Those that kept their Bitcoin in Casa did well, but some of them ended up losing other things — even stablecoins, for example — because they didn’t have a way to put those into a distributed cold-storage setup.” In order to respond to this problem, Casa announce...