What being in the top one percent looks like globally.

Bitcoin is much more scarce than you may think. Here’s what I mean. Total money supply globally is about $500 trillion. Max BTC supply is 21 million. This means each BTC is about $23.8 million (500T/21M). 1 BTC = ~$23.8 million. (That’s how much each coin would be worth if Bitcoin absorbed all global wealth.) So if we work this out proportionally to the total global money supply, you get this: Percentile - Threshold - BTC Equivalent ——————————————————————— Top 0.01% - $25,000,000 - 1.05 BTC Top 0.1% - $5,100,000 - 0.214 BTC Top 1% - $1,200,000 - 0.05 BTC Top 10% - $100,000 - 0.0042 BTC Top 50% - $10,000 - 0.00042 BTC Bottom 50% - $1,000 - 0.000042 BTC So what does that mean? - To be in the global top 1%, you’d only need 0.05 BTC - To hit the top 0.1%, you’d need 0.21 BTC - The top 0.01%? Just 1.05 BTC Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of humanity would each hold just 0.000042 BTC. Barely a crumb. It makes you realize just how unbelievably scarce Bitcoin is when you scale it against the sheer size of the world’s wealth. There are over 8 billion people on Earth… and only 21 million Bitcoin, and that’s before factoring in the 3 to 4 million coins lost forever. Most people are chasing 1 full BTC like it’s some kind of digital trophy, that’s really good, but they don’t fully grasp what it represents. When (not if) Bitcoin becomes the dominant global financial “store of value”, the Digital Gold of the modern age, 1 BTC doesn’t just make you “well off”… It makes you part of a global elite. Not the 1%. The 0.01%. Maybe even rarer. Bitcoin is already well on its way there,some argue it’s inevitable. Major institutions, governments, the US government, billionaires, companies even - they’re already moving in. And when the world wakes up and tries to divide $500 trillion of global value across just 21 million units… The game will already be over. So the real flex won’t be Lambos and yachts. It’ll be owning just one Bitcoin. And get this… even 0.1 BTC would be multi-millionaire territory. Scarcity isn’t just hype, it’s math. So the next time someone laughs at you for stacking sats at 100k… just remember: Even 50 millisats could make you a top dog. In fact, $100k bitcoin is still too early Stack sats like your future depends on it. Because it just might. submitted by /u/JuicyFood [link] [comments]

Mar 22, 2025 - 05:02

What being in the top one percent looks like globally.

Bitcoin is much more scarce than you may think.

Here’s what I mean.

Total money supply globally is about $500 trillion. Max BTC supply is 21 million. This means each BTC is about $23.8 million (500T/21M).

1 BTC = ~$23.8 million. (That’s how much each coin would be worth if Bitcoin absorbed all global wealth.)

So if we work this out proportionally to the total global money supply, you get this:

Percentile - Threshold - BTC Equivalent ——————————————————————— Top 0.01% - $25,000,000 - 1.05 BTC Top 0.1% - $5,100,000 - 0.214 BTC Top 1% - $1,200,000 - 0.05 BTC Top 10% - $100,000 - 0.0042 BTC Top 50% - $10,000 - 0.00042 BTC Bottom 50% - $1,000 - 0.000042 BTC

So what does that mean? - To be in the global top 1%, you’d only need 0.05 BTC - To hit the top 0.1%, you’d need 0.21 BTC - The top 0.01%? Just 1.05 BTC

Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of humanity would each hold just 0.000042 BTC. Barely a crumb.

It makes you realize just how unbelievably scarce Bitcoin is when you scale it against the sheer size of the world’s wealth. There are over 8 billion people on Earth… and only 21 million Bitcoin, and that’s before factoring in the 3 to 4 million coins lost forever.

Most people are chasing 1 full BTC like it’s some kind of digital trophy, that’s really good, but they don’t fully grasp what it represents. When (not if) Bitcoin becomes the dominant global financial “store of value”, the Digital Gold of the modern age, 1 BTC doesn’t just make you “well off”…

It makes you part of a global elite.

Not the 1%. The 0.01%. Maybe even rarer.

Bitcoin is already well on its way there,some argue it’s inevitable. Major institutions, governments, the US government, billionaires, companies even - they’re already moving in. And when the world wakes up and tries to divide $500 trillion of global value across just 21 million units…

The game will already be over.

So the real flex won’t be Lambos and yachts. It’ll be owning just one Bitcoin.

And get this… even 0.1 BTC would be multi-millionaire territory.

Scarcity isn’t just hype, it’s math.

So the next time someone laughs at you for stacking sats at 100k… just remember: Even 50 millisats could make you a top dog.

In fact, $100k bitcoin is still too early

Stack sats like your future depends on it. Because it just might.

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