>This pseudo-Gini is meaningless, since addresses!=people. It is meaningless but not really for that reason. The estimation of Gini Coefficient that Charlie S

>This pseudo-Gini is meaningless, since addresses!=people. It is meaningless but not really for that reason. The estimation of Gini Coefficient that Charlie Stross links was calculated by the Bitcoinica exchange from their client list. It's meaningless because it was calculated in 2011, when the number of Bitcoin owners and users was a tiny fraction of the current figure, and the network was less than 2 years old and practically unknown to the wider world. He first cites that out-of-date estimate, and then claims that it is getting worse, without providing evidence for that claim.