BITCOIN OWNERSHIP BY SIZE

How is Bitcoin split across wallet sizes?

Compare every balance band, then open any exact range or running threshold for its own history.

How Bitcoin is split across address balances chart

10,000+ BTC1,000 to 10,000 BTC100 to 1,000 BTC10 to 100 BTC1 to 10 BTC0.1 to 1 BTC0.01 to 0.1 BTCUnder 0.01 BTC

Share of all Bitcoin held by each size band, over the years. When the top band thickens, coins are pooling with the largest holders; when it thins, they are spreading out.

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Aug 14, 2026

Balance group	Share on Aug 14, 2026	Latest share (actual date)	Signed change
10,000+ BTC	14.93%	14.93% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
1,000 to 10,000 BTC	21.17%	21.17% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
100 to 1,000 BTC	25.72%	25.72% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
10 to 100 BTC	21.04%	21.04% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
1 to 10 BTC	10.17%	10.17% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
0.1 to 1 BTC	5.32%	5.32% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
0.01 to 0.1 BTC	1.39%	1.39% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points
Under 0.01 BTC	0.25%	0.25% (Aug 14, 2026)	+0.0 percentage points

This view shows 6,425 dated observations from Jan 11, 2009 to Aug 14, 2026. The latest displayed date is Aug 14, 2026. Every day in this range has a reading.

Every address is sorted by how much Bitcoin sits in it, from the very largest holdings down to dust. But an address is not a person. One person can control thousands of addresses, and a single exchange can hold millions of customers' coins in just a few. Coins that are lost forever still count here too. So read every number below as a count of addresses, never a headcount of people.

The bar shows each group's share of all the coins, so the millions of tiny addresses at the bottom barely register. Together they hold almost nothing. Every row opens its own page.

Size of holding	Addresses	Bitcoin held	Share of all Bitcoin
10,000+ BTC	89	2,996,983	14.93%
1,000 to 10,000 BTC	1,948	4,247,962	21.17%
100 to 1,000 BTC	17,945	5,161,732	25.72%
10 to 100 BTC	129,625	4,222,363	21.04%
1 to 10 BTC	822,099	2,041,235	10.17%
0.1 to 1 BTC	3,498,222	1,068,622	5.32%
0.01 to 0.1 BTC	8,266,300	278,073	1.39%
Under 0.01 BTCvery small, dust, and abandoned addresses	43,974,144	50,570	0.25%

Holders of at least a given size

These four are running totals, so each row already counts every larger holder above it. Their shares overlap and do not add up like the bands above. Each row opens its own page.

Holding at least	Addresses	Bitcoin held	Share of all Bitcoin (running total)
At least 0.1 BTC	4,469,928	19,738,897	98.35%
At least 1 BTC (a whole coin)	971,706	18,670,275	93.03%
At least 10 BTC	149,607	16,629,040	82.86%
At least 100 BTC	19,982	12,406,677	61.82%

Holder groups

These groups do not overlap. Each upper boundary starts the next group: 1 BTC starts Medium-size wallets, and 100 BTC starts Large holders. Addresses below 0.01 BTC and at or above 10,000 BTC sit outside this three-row grouping.

Group	Addresses	Bitcoin held	Share of all Bitcoin
Retail0.01 to 1 BTC	11,764,522	1,346,695	6.71%
Medium-size wallets1 to 100 BTC	951,724	6,263,598	31.21%
Large holders100 to 10,000 BTC	19,893	9,409,694	46.89%

What each group is doing

The pages above open one size group at a time. These compare all seven groups side by side, one question per page.

Average buy price by size	What did each size of holder pay?
Price vs. buy price by size	Which sizes are above or below what they paid?
Profit by size	How deep is each group's profit or loss?
Profit taken by size	Who locked in profits, and who took losses?
Coins moved by size	Which sizes are moving their coins?

How many addresses hold a whole Bitcoin?
About 972,000 addresses
hold at least one whole Bitcoin. That's the number most people mean when they ask how many own a whole coin.
That's fewer than 1 in every 50 of the addresses that hold any Bitcoin at all.
Where is most of the Bitcoin?
Ownership is top-heavy: the largest addresses (100+ BTC) hold about 62% of all Bitcoin, a share that has drifted up over recent years.
~20,000
addresses hold 100+ BTC
about 62% of all Bitcoin
~4.5 million
addresses hold at least 0.1 BTC
about 98% of all Bitcoin
~44 million
tiny addresses under 0.01 BTC
78% of all addresses, about 0.25% of the coins
What does this mean?
That top-heavy shape is the normal one for a widely-traded asset, not a red flag on its own. Big exchanges and funds hold coins on behalf of huge numbers of people, so a concentrated list of addresses is not the same as a concentrated list of owners.
What's worth watching is the direction. The colorful chart at the top shows this split across the whole history. When the top band thickens, coins are pooling with the largest holders; when it thins, they are spreading out.

Supply by Age →

How long has each coin been sitting still?

Big Holder Activity →

What the largest wallets have been doing lately.

Number of Wallets →

How many addresses hold Bitcoin, over the years.

Understanding Bitcoin Ownership by Size (Address Distribution)

Line up every Bitcoin address by how much it holds and you get the complete balance ladder. This page shows how many addresses sit in each separate size band, how much Bitcoin each band holds, and links to exact ranges and running totals. It does not estimate how many people own Bitcoin or show whether each group is in profit.

The single most important thing to remember is that an address is not a person or a wallet. One person can spread their coins across thousands of addresses; a single exchange can hold the coins of millions of customers in just a handful. Coins that are lost forever still sit in an address and still get counted. So every figure here is a count of addresses, never a headcount of owners.

Read the two columns together and a clear shape appears. A few thousand large addresses hold most of the Bitcoin in existence, while tens of millions of tiny addresses together hold almost none. Ownership is top-heavy, which is the normal shape for a widely-traded asset rather than a warning sign on its own.

What is worth watching is not the snapshot but the direction. The colorful chart at the top of the page stacks each size band's share of all Bitcoin across the whole history: when the top band thickens, coins are pooling with the largest holders; when it thins, they are spreading out.

These are raw on-chain address counts. Some trackers group addresses into estimated wallets or entities and show lower counts; both are valid reads of the same data, they just count different things.