circulating supplynoun
The bitcoin that exists and can move today. New coins are added slowly, block by block.
Does not tell you: how many coins are lost and will never move again.
Education, not advice. Example data, not live prices, not advice: the figures in the examples are invented.
Dominance, halving, ETF flows, whale alerts: what they actually mean, and what each one does not tell you.
The bitcoin that exists and can move today. New coins are added slowly, block by block.
Does not tell you: how many coins are lost and will never move again.
Bitcoin's market cap as a share of the whole crypto market's cap.
$1.35T of a $2.41T market: dominance 56.0%.Example data, not live prices, not advice.
Does not tell you: why it moved. It rises when bitcoin gains, or when everything else falls.
The bitcoin that spot ETFs took in or let go in a day, as their shares were created or redeemed.
+2,600 BTC: the funds together held 2,600 more at the close.Example data, not live prices, not advice.
Does not tell you: what comes next.
The scheduled cut, by half, of the new bitcoin paid to miners for each block.
Does not tell you: what the price will do. Past halvings are history, not a timetable.
Price times circulating supply: a way to size the market, not money anyone could take out of it.
$68,420 × 19.7M coins ≈ $1.35T.Example data, not live prices, not advice.
The smallest unit a bitcoin divides into. Small amounts are often counted in sats.
Does not tell you: anything about value; it is only a unit, like a cent.
The value of bitcoin that changed hands in a period, usually 24 hours. Spot volume counts trades of the coin itself.
Does not tell you: which way the next move goes.
A notice that a large amount of bitcoin moved between wallets. Many such moves are custodians shifting their own coins.
Does not tell you: who owns the wallets, or why the coins moved.
Plain words for beginners, with no tips hidden in them.