BITCOIN OWNER TRACK RECORDS

An owner here is a bundle of addresses the chain's own evidence links together, not a person and not an account. One person may show up as several owners, and one owner may be a company. Read every row as a group of addresses, never as a headcount of people.

1. 1

   How many owners are even in the running?

   89,053,965

   owners who have ever sold

   Every owner on the chain that has parted with a coin at least once.

   2,079,199

   ranked by money made

   Cleared the bar for a long enough, well enough priced record.

   925,808

   ranked by rate of return

   A higher bar, because a percentage on a tiny sale means nothing.

   Everyone else fell short of at least one rule. The next two steps show who got ranked, and then exactly which rules the rest missed.

2. 2

   Who made the most money, and who lost the most?

   The best record made $1.79 billion.

   Out of 89,053,965 owners who have ever sold anything, 2,079,199 cleared the bar. The worst lost $1.14 billion.

   Realised results over the period we can observe, up to August 17, 2026. Past outcomes, not a forecast and not advice.

   Counted up to block 962,882.
3. 3

   Who was left out, and why?

   86,974,766 owners were left out of the money ranking. Here is what they missed.

   An owner is counted against every rule it misses, so these numbers add up to more than the number of owners left out. The honest figure for that is 89,053,965 minus 2,079,199.

   • Sold on fewer than five days84,703,886 owners
   • Less than six months between first sale and last activity84,444,805 owners
   • Too much of what they sold could not be matched to what they paid3,710 owners
   • An exchange or a custodian1,314 owners

   Exchanges and custodians are excluded outright. An exchange's gains are its customers' gains, and no amount of activity changes that.

4. 4

   What are these owners doing now?

   6

   last seen buying

   31

   last seen selling

   3

   last seen holding steady

   0

   not enough history to say

   This counts every owner who appears on a ranking above, 40 in all, counted once even where the same owner places twice. It is a read on those rankings and nothing wider, not on the 89,053,965 owners in the population.

   Last seen is the operative word. For a quiet owner the last time they moved anything can be years ago, so nobody here is described as doing something today.

5. 5

   What does this mean for you?

   The useful thing on this page is not the top row. It is the shape of the bar you have to clear to get there. An owner needs at least half a year between their first sale and their last activity, at least five separate selling days, and enough of their selling matched to what they paid, before we will rank them at all. Those rules together leave out almost everybody, which tells you something about how rare a long, finished, measurable Bitcoin record actually is.

   The second useful thing is what is missing. Nothing here counts coins somebody still holds. A person sitting on an enormous gain they have never sold appears nowhere on this page, because a coin that has not been sold has no result yet. So read this as a record of finished decisions, by anonymous groups of addresses, over a period we could observe. It is not a forecast, it is not a strategy, and it is not advice.

   What to watch from here

   • The best record made $1.79 billion and the worst lost $1.14 billion. Both are finished results, not open positions.
   • 2,079,199 owners out of 89,053,965 cleared the bar. If that ratio grows over the years, more of Bitcoin's history is becoming measurable.
   • The rate of return board asks for at least ten thousand dollars of sales, which is why it ranks fewer owners than the money board does.