Donald Trump’s triumph creates over 11,000 new Bitcoin millionaires
While Bitcoin (BTC) attempted a breakout already as Americans were casting their ballots, the true rally came once President-Elect Donald Trump’s lead in the electoral college started becoming overwhelming. As the world’s premier cryptocurrency reached a new all-time high (ATH) at $75,358.70 and is, following a 7.83% rise in the last 24 hours to BTC price today of $74,133, possibly aiming for new peaks, the number of Bitcoin millionaires has also rocketed. Specifically, on October 7 – just under a month ago – 121,061 addresses were holding more than $1 million worth of the coin, and at press time on November 6, there were 132,842 – meaning there are 11,487 new BTC millionaires as per Finbold Research. Of these, 121,126 addresses hold between $1 million and $9.99 million, and 11,716 are richer than $10 million. On October 7, data retrieved from BitInfoCharts using the Wayback Machine web archive tool shows there were 10,434 addresses ...