ABOUT21 million is the ceiling, not the count.

Bitcoin's supply is usually quoted as if every coin ever issued still circulates. It doesn't. Some coin is provably gone — spent to conditions that can never be met, or never created because a miner didn't claim it. Some is probably gone — sent to burn addresses with no known keys. And a large, debatable amount has simply not moved in a decade or more.

This site doesn't pick a number for you. Every figure traces to a public classification rule, and the sliders let you decide how much doubt to accept — from mathematical certainty to speculation.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
01Propose a new loss classification: open a PR adding a markdown file to proposals/ in the GitHub repo.
02Debate happens in PR comments. Challenge scale estimates, evidence, and edge cases.
03Proposals that reach finality are implemented as detectors and their figures appear on this site.
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METHODOLOGY

Figures are computed from a fully-indexed Bitcoin Core node. Every UTXO is run through the classifier pipeline; dormancy is computed at query time, never stored. Nothing here is an estimate unless labeled as one.

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