Along with measuring major gains in price and breaking through the $44,000 mark, Bitcoin (BTC) is also recording increases in the number of addresses holding the asset, surpassing the 40 million mark for the first time in history.
Specifically, the number of addresses holding Bitcoin was 40.25 million as of March 24, an all-time high since the cryptocurrency’s nascence, as demonstrated in a chart shared by artificial intelligence crypto analytics platform IntoTheBlock on March 25.
According to the research platform’s tweet, the number of addresses holding Bitcoin experienced a drop in February, only to continue growing and setting new highs.