Figures as of 30 August 2026 · sources at the foot of the page
Every answer dated 30 August 2026, sourced on the linked pages, and free of moon talk.
There is no official threshold, but three honest computations exist: 0.28 BTC guarantees a place in the top 1% of the world if bitcoin were fully distributed (supply argument); about 2 BTC puts you in the top 1% of funded addresses today (percentile argument); and about 13 BTC is a million dollars at recent prices (dollar argument).
About 971,000 addresses hold at least 1 BTC as of 30 August 2026. Adjusted for people who control several addresses, research puts the number of individual "wholecoiners" around 825,000 people - roughly 70 times rarer than being a dollar millionaire.
It places an address in roughly the top 7.5% of all funded bitcoin addresses - about 4.5 million addresses hold that much or more. If bitcoin were split evenly across humanity everyone would get 0.0024 BTC, so 0.1 BTC is about 40 times an equal world share.
A million satoshis puts an address in roughly the top 21% of funded addresses, and it is over four times the even-split share of 0.0024 BTC per person. Whether it is worth having is a question about bitcoin itself, not about the threshold.
Estimates range from 2.3 to 3.7 million BTC - roughly 11 to 18% of the eventual supply - based on coins untouched for many years, including the roughly 1.1 million commonly attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto that have never moved.
Under a million: about 20.07 million of the 21 million cap already exist. New supply is ~450 BTC per day, halving to ~225 in 2028, with the final coin expected around 2140.
The largest single address is an exchange cold wallet holding around 248,598 BTC on behalf of customers. Among individuals, Satoshi Nakamoto is commonly estimated to have mined about 1.1 million BTC, untouched since the earliest days. Public companies, ETFs and several governments hold large amounts through custodians.
Estimates span 106 million to roughly 500 million people worldwide depending on methodology; the most-cited single figure is 365 million (Crypto.com, 2025). Address counts cannot settle it, because one person can hold many addresses and one exchange address can represent millions of people.
It is an exact census of addresses and an approximation of people. Exchange cold wallets pool millions of customers into single addresses at the top, while dust and change addresses inflate the bottom. Treat address percentiles as the best available public measure, not a census of individuals.
The smallest unit of bitcoin: one hundred-millionth of a coin. All the bitcoin mined so far works out to roughly 245,000 satoshis per person on earth.
Longer versions live on the answer pages:
The wholecoiner club: smaller than you think.
Where a tenth of a coin puts you.
The million-sat milestone, in context.
Fewer than 150,000 addresses on earth.
Rarer than a football stadium crowd.
Why estimates span 106 million to 500 million.
Millions of coins, gone for good.
Satoshi, exchanges and the biggest addresses.
Your fair share is about 245,000 sats.
Why new supply keeps shrinking to 2140.