Nakamoto Still Holds More Than Half of All Exchanges Combined

The creator of Bitcoin holds a significant portion of the cryptocurrency's total supply. According to blockchain intelligence firm Arkham, Satoshi Nakamoto controls approximately 1.096 million BTC, worth close to $72 billion at current prices.

This represents 5.5% of Bitcoin's entire circulating supply, dwarfing every major institution combined. Even when combining the holdings of top exchanges and institutions such as Coinbase, Strategy, BlackRock, and Binance, Nakamoto's individual holding remains unmatched.

Nakamoto accumulated this stash as block rewards for mining roughly 22,000 blocks in Bitcoin's earliest days, long before the asset carried any meaningful market value. The wallets have remained almost entirely untouched since then.