Scary stat: more Bitcoin goes dark each day than gets mined. 80% OFF Paybis fees on 3 trades with MONSTER80 until 2 November.
More Bitcoin goes dark each day than gets mined
Mining creates about 450 new Bitcoin a day. Every day, about 566 Bitcoin pass ten years without being spent once. Fidelity Digital Assets measured both numbers using Glassnode data. The total supply keeps growing, and the part of it that anyone actually buys and sells keeps getting smaller.
Some of those untouched coins are simply being held. Others are gone for good, locked behind keys and passwords their owners lost years ago. Chainalysis, River, Ledger and Unchained all put the lost amount somewhere between 2.3 and 4 million coins. At a price near $79,850, that is $180 billion to $320 billion in wallets nobody can open.
Lost coins get the attention. The bigger figure is the one that simply sits. About 43% of all the Bitcoin in circulation has stayed in the same wallet for three years or more, by Unchained's count in April 2026. Most of that is held on purpose by people with no plans to sell.
Circulating supply reads about 20.1 million coins. The amount that genuinely changes hands in a year is a good deal smaller than that.
About 566 Bitcoin a day go ten years untouched, more than the 450 that mining adds. It is an eerie statistic, and it stays true long after the decorations come down.
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Supply figures are Fidelity Digital Assets using Glassnode data, 2025. Lost-coin estimates are from Chainalysis, River, Ledger and Unchained. The 43% figure is Unchained, April 2026. Price figures move with the market. This update is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Cryptocurrency markets are volatile. Always conduct your own research before making any decisions.
