Figures as of 30 August 2026 · sources at the foot of the page
Whole coins make bitcoin feel unreachable. Satoshis - the actual unit - tell a more interesting story.
One bitcoin divides into 100,000,000 satoshis, named for the network's creator. Every balance on this site is really a count of sats: the smallest funded addresses hold a few hundred, the wholecoiner line sits at a hundred million, and prices quoted per coin obscure that you can own any slice you like.
| Measure | Sats |
|---|---|
| All mined bitcoin, split across 8.2 billion people | ~245,000 each |
| The full 21M cap, split the same way | ~256,000 each |
| Same, minus mid-range lost-coin estimates | ~210,000 each |
| Value of a fair share at recent prices | roughly $190 |
That is the number this site exists to publicise: the even world share of bitcoin is about a quarter of a million sats, and it shrinks as coins are lost. Anyone holding more than ~245,000 sats holds more than a fair global split would ever allocate them.
Unit bias is real: people who would never "buy 0.003 of something" will happily stack 300,000 sats. The arithmetic is identical; the psychology is not. And since the supply is capped, sats are the one denomination in which your share of the total can never be diluted - only lost, spent or grown.
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.
Why new supply keeps shrinking to 2140.
Supply and population figures as of 30 August 2026 - 20.07M BTC mined, ~8.2bn people (US Census Bureau IDB). Not financial advice.