The BTC Register

Edition of 2026-08-15

Who holds the coin — households, companies, or funds.

Not another Strategy leaderboard. The picture is the split. Retail is whatever is left after we name the institutions and haircut the lost coins.

BTC spot

$62,979

CoinGecko, 2026-08-15

Circulating

20,070,534

CoinGecko

Named institutions

2,302,467

Corporates + IBIT floor + gov

Implied retail

14,068,067

70.1% of circulating

Circulating supply, stacked

  • Implied retail14,068,067 70.1%
  • Lost (assumption)3,700,000 18.4%
  • Corporate treasuries1,282,501 6.4%
  • Funds (IBIT floor)802,823 4.0%
  • Governments (incomplete)217,143 1.1%
Implied retail is a leftover. Funds are undercounted on purpose until issuer pages are live.

Inside institutions

Corporate treasuries hold BTC on their own balance sheet. Funds hold it for clients. We do not mash them into one “institutional” blob.

Corporates 1,282,501 · of which vehicles 125,006 · IBIT floor 802,823

Treasury vs funds →

Retail is a residual. Funds are a stale floor (IBIT last cited April 2026). Do not treat this as a census. Strategy’s own site is the source for 840,447 BTC. The company file is CoinGecko’s public treasury API (179 names, 1,282,501 BTC).

Flippening

When retail stops being the majority

Reconstructed history plus three labeled forecasts. At the recent pace the 50% line is around 2031. That is arithmetic on a residual, not a prophecy.

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