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BITCOIN NEW ADDRESSES

How many new addresses appear each day?

Brand-new addresses seen on the network for the first time, day by day.

Usually daily
New Bitcoin addresses seen for the first time each day chartmaketomaketo.com/bitcoin/new-addresses101001,00010.0K100.0K1.00M200920122015201820212024Aug 15, 2026301.6K

Addresses seen for the first time, per day. Each point is the number of addresses seen for the first time that day. The scale rises by powers of ten so the quiet early years and the busy modern era fit in one picture.

Latest displayed reading: 301,582 on Aug 15, 2026. This view shows 6,426 dated readings from Jan 11, 2009 to Aug 15, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is 4 on Jul 18, 2009. The displayed high is 804,574 on Dec 14, 2017. Every day in this range has a reading.

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  • New addresses that day (selected): 301,582

  1. How many new addresses appeared over the past day?

    301,582

    301,582 addresses appeared on the blockchain for the first time in the day ending Aug 15, 2026.

    The window rolls with the chain, so this always covers the most recent full day.

  2. Does a new address mean a new person?

    No. Modern wallets create a fresh address for almost every payment, including the change a wallet sends back to itself, so one active person can leave dozens of new addresses behind in a week. Read this as raw turnover on the blockchain, not as people signing up.

  3. How many addresses has Bitcoin ever seen?

    1,535,926,792
    addresses ever seen on the blockchain
    301,582
    of them arrived in the past day

    Most of these were used briefly and emptied. Only a small fraction hold any Bitcoin right now; the Total Wallets page tracks that second, smaller number.

  4. What does this mean for you?

    This is the network's intake of fresh addresses, one honest count per day. A sustained climb means more hands touching Bitcoin, whether new people or busier wallets. A long fade means quieter use. Watch the trend against Active Addresses and Daily Activity, not as a population count or a price prediction.

Understanding Bitcoin New Addresses

An address counts as new the first time it ever appears on the blockchain, whether it receives a payment or shows up inside a transaction. The count covers the past day as a rolling window, so it always reflects the most recent full day of activity.

A new address is not a new person. Modern wallets create a fresh address for almost every payment, including the change a wallet sends back to itself, so one active person can leave dozens of new addresses behind in a week. Read this as raw turnover on the blockchain, not as people signing up.

In Bitcoin's first two years, nearly every new address used an early payment format, called pay-to-public-key or P2PK, that can hide repeats of the same key. By 2013 that format had faded to fewer than one in four hundred new addresses, and today it has essentially disappeared. The earliest stretch of the chart can therefore undercount slightly; the rest counts exactly.

Two totals tell different stories. Well over a billion addresses have appeared at least once, but most were used briefly and emptied. Only a small fraction hold any Bitcoin right now, and the Total Wallets page tracks that second, smaller number.