BITCOIN REALIZED PROFIT AND LOSS
Who is cashing in, and who is taking the loss?
Every coin that moves locks in a real gain or a real loss. This page adds up both sides in dollars, day by day.
Profit and losses locked in over the past day
The orange line adds up the dollars cashed in at a profit when coins moved over the past day; the blue line, the dollars given up at a loss. The scale rises by powers of ten, so the quiet early years and the loudest days fit in one picture.
Profit locked in (selected). Latest displayed reading: $117.51M on Aug 15, 2026. This view shows 5,341 dated readings from Jan 1, 2012 to Aug 15, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is $3,831 on Mar 24, 2012. The displayed high is $10.48B on Nov 21, 2024. Every day in this range has a reading.
Losses taken. Latest displayed reading: $363.89M on Aug 15, 2026. This view shows 5,341 dated readings from Jan 1, 2012 to Aug 15, 2026. The latest displayed reading is higher than the first. The displayed low is $4,170 on Jul 1, 2012. The displayed high is $6.13B on Mar 30, 2023. Every day in this range has a reading.
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- Profit locked in (selected): $117.51M
- Losses taken: $363.89M
Who came out ahead over the past day?
Losses came out aheadCoins that moved over the past day locked in $118M at a profit and $364M at a loss. 32 cents were cashed in for every $1 given up.
How big are the two sides?
$118MProfit locked inover the past day$364MLosses takenover the past day-$246MMore losses than profitthe differenceDoes the whole week tell the same story?
The week leans to lossesOver the past week, 51 cents were cashed in for every $1 given up. The week tells the same story as the past day.
Is a week like this unusual?
Where the past week's balance sits against the last 4 years.
20th percentile of the last 4 years0.09 to 58.2 the range's low and highWhat should you keep in mind?
Moving is not the same as selling. These figures count every coin that changed addresses, including coins someone shuffled between their own wallets and the change that comes back from a normal payment. Read the levels as honest ceilings, not exact sales figures.
The dollar figures are rolling sums over the past day, not a calendar day, so they update through the day rather than resetting at midnight. The balance uses a full week. The two windows move at different speeds by design, and this page never mixes them.
What does this mean for you?
Locked-in profit is not a warning by itself. People cash in on the way up in every healthy climb, and losses get taken in every dip. The signal lives at the extremes: days when profit-taking dwarfs anything usual have clustered near past market peaks, and stretches when nearly every moving coin booked a loss have tended to appear near washed-out bottoms, when holders finally gave up.
Use the day for the pulse and the week for the story. A single loud day means little on its own; a week that keeps leaning the same way is worth your attention. Either way, this is a read on what the people moving coins just did, not a prediction or advice to buy or sell.
This page adds every holder together. To see who is taking the profits and who is eating the losses, split the same day by wallet size or by coin age.
Understanding Realized Profit and Loss
Realized profit and loss counts only money that actually changed hands. A coin sitting in a wallet can be up or down on paper, but nothing is locked in until it moves. When it does, the gap between the price it last moved at and the price it moves at now becomes real profit or a real loss. This page adds those gaps up across every coin that moved.
The two sides tell different stories. Heavy profit-taking means holders are choosing to cash in. That happens in every healthy climb, but it reaches unusual heights near market peaks, when nearly everyone rushes to lock in gains at once. Heavy loss-taking means holders are giving up, and the biggest waves of it have come near washed-out bottoms.
The balance between the two is often more telling than either side alone. A week where every mover books a profit looks stretched; one where nearly every mover eats a loss has usually been through the worst of it. This page scores the past week's balance against the last four years, so an unusual stretch stands out at a glance.
One honest caveat: moving is not the same as selling. These figures count every coin that changed addresses, including coins shuffled between someone's own wallets. Read the levels as honest ceilings on real selling, and lean on the extremes and the trend rather than any single day's number.