In 2017 according to the Forbes 30th Anniversary Guide to the world's richest people, the list of new billionaires on the planet moved up about 13% There are now a recorded 2,043 billionaires on the planet which is up about 233 people from a year ago in 2016. The total collective net wealth of the billionaire club rose by 18% commanding a whopping net value of $7.67 trillion USD which is also a new record.
It said there are many unknown billionaires from around the planet, somewhere in the region of hundreds if not thousands of families who have one way or another, in stealth like fashion somehow managed to kept there wealth off books publicly, flying under the radar out of watch dog eyes.
With respect to trying to guess the exact amount of millionaires in the world today, that number is said to be a bit more difficult to pin down when factoring in multi-millionaires as well as millionaires. This year in 2017, Boston Consulting Group estimated there are 17 million "millionaires" on the planet. Credit Suisse believes the number to be much higher at 35 million people who have the right to call themselves millionaires, with that number expected to double by 2025. Ironically enough 17 million is close to the amount of Bitcoins that are available for public trading currently in circulation. In other words, barring out all the billionaires who may want to buy some Bitcoin, barring out everybody in the middle class or people like the Winklevoss twins who already own roughly 1% of the entire Bitcoin Market, which equates to ~120,000 BTC, purchased for ~$11 million around 2011, in a dimension where every millionaire in the world woke up one morning and just decided to pop out to a local Bitcoin ATM to snap up a single Bitcoin each, the bottom line is very few people in the world may ever get the chance to realistically own a single Bitcoin.
The good news for anyone who does not get to own some illusive, electronic, magic internet money or a full Bitcoin, a single BTC is technically divisible by 100 million units or Satoshi's, the odds of "most people" owning a fraction of a Bitcoin with the amount of demand that has encompassed the Blockchain is more realistic. I have started to recognize the closer Bitcoin get's to being traded publicly on Wall Street, very few people will ever know the joy of securing an entire Bitcoin while 99% of the world will have never owned an entire BTC at all.
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Written and art by STEEM user: Jazmin Million