Arcam data shows that just six organizations currently control 21% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist.
Estimated 3.7 million $BTC Lost forever in an inaccessible wallet.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1 million $BTC It has not moved since 2010.
Arkham Intelligence has released new on-chain data showing that six organizations control a total of 4.25 million Bitcoins. This is approximately 21% of the total $BTC It will always be there, and most of it isn’t going anywhere.
Satoshi Nakamoto still tops the list with 1,096,358 people $BTCworth approximately $75 billion. Arkham tracked these coins using a known mining pattern called the Patoshi pattern and associated them with 22,000 mined blocks. Nothing has moved since 2010.
Coinbase ranks second with 993,069 $BTC ($68 billion) on-chain and on behalf of itself and its custodial customers. BlackRock follows with 761,801. $BTC ($52 billion), most of which is tied to spot Bitcoin ETFs.
Strategy’s actual Bitcoin holdings are larger than it appears
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) reports total holdings of 714,644 $BTC ($54 billion). But only 415,230 $BTC It will be displayed on-chain with that name. The rest belongs to Fidelity Custody because of the way Fidelity Custody’s custodial system groups wallets.
US government holds 328,372 $BTC ($22 billion). Almost all of them are due to seizures by law enforcement, including the Bitfinex hack recall, the Silk Road marketplace shutdown, and the LuBian Hacker address.
Number of tethers held: 96,369 $BTC ($6.5 billion) as part of its reserve management, making it the top holder among private companies.
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The largest Bitcoin wallets all belong to exchanges
The top four individual Bitcoin wallets are all cold wallets on exchanges. Binance has the two largest with 249,000 and 157,000 $BTC. Robinhood holds 141,000 $BTC And Bitfinex will hold 130K $BTC.
These wallets store customer funds rather than the exchange’s own Bitcoin.
How much Bitcoin do you actually have left to buy?
Estimated 3.7 million $BTC It will be permanently lost in your wallet and will no longer be accessible. As a result, the actual supply will be significantly lower than the upper limit of 21 million units. Considering Satoshi’s dormant coins, government holdings, ETF reserves, and corporate treasury holdings, $BTC The amount that can actually be traded continues to decrease.
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Bitcoin is currently trading around $67,249, down 1% in the past 24 hours.
