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Bitcoin, explained with live numbers.

Every piece here is wired to the chain itself — real balances, real block heights, real fees, rendered into the page and refreshed live. No hype, no price calls, nothing to sell. Read it, then verify it.

REFERENCE The bitcoin glossary UTXO, sat/vB, P2PK, RBF, CPFP, confirmations, block height — the terms that unlock everything else, defined answer-first. 10 TERMSANSWER-FIRST WALLET WATCH · ATTRIBUTED The Patoshi pattern: how we know Satoshi mined 1.1 million bitcoin A fingerprint hidden in bitcoin's earliest blocks reveals one miner behind ~22,000 of them — and a fortune that has never moved. ~7 MINLIVE DATA WALLET WATCH Dormant bitcoin wallets: why billions in BTC never move Lost keys, dead owners, radioactive hoards, iron hands — what dormancy means on-chain, and why the market stops when sleeping coins wake. ~6 MINLIVE DATA READING SIGNALS Moved ≠ sold: how to actually read a whale alert A transfer is not a sale. The five moves whales actually make — and the only one that signals selling. ~6 MINLIVE DATA WALLET WATCH · CASE FILE The Mt. Gox bitcoin: where 850,000 stolen coins went Bitcoin's original catastrophe, the 79,957 BTC frozen in plain sight since 2011, and the repayment endgame running to October 2026. ~7 MINLIVE DATA SUPPLY How many bitcoins are lost forever? The evidence supports 2.3–4 million BTC gone for good — 11–19% of everything that will ever exist. What counts as lost, and how it is measured. ~6 MINLIVE DATA OWNERSHIP Who owns the most bitcoin? The biggest addresses aren't the biggest owners, and the biggest owner has never moved a coin. The leaderboard, by grade of evidence. ~6 MINLIVE DATA SUPPLY What happens when all 21 million bitcoin are mined? The last satoshi arrives around 2140, but the transition is already four halvings deep. What changes, what doesn't, and the honest security question. ~6 MINLIVE DATA NETWORK What is the bitcoin mempool? The network's waiting room, explained Where every transaction waits for a block — a fee auction, an early-warning system, and the network's mood ring. How to read it before you send. ~6 MINLIVE DATA NETWORK · REFERENCE Every bitcoin halving so far — and when the next one hits All four halvings with dates, blocks and rewards, plus the live countdown to block 1,050,000 and what halvings verifiably do. ~5 MINLIVE DATA NETWORK How long does a bitcoin transaction actually take? Three clocks: seconds to propagate, a probabilistic ~10 minutes per block, and the confirmations your counterparty demands. ~5 MINLIVE DATA NETWORK · REFERENCE Bitcoin address types: 1…, 3…, bc1q…, bc1p… — decoded Every prefix encodes how coins are locked and what transactions cost. The four families side by side, and which to use. ~5 MINLIVE DATA