残高 1000 BTC 超のアドレス数

The total count of addresses holding at least 1,000 BTC — everything above on-chain analysis's conventional whale threshold, summing the 1K-10K and >10K tiers. At current prices these are nine-figure-dollar single addresses. This site's two band pages tell each tier's own story (small-sample reading rules, the operational nature of mega-wallets); this page provides the merged view those pages recommend: cross-tier migrations (a 10K-coin wallet sharded into 1K-coin pieces, etc.) cancel out internally here, making this the most reliable read on the whale population's trend.

The count peaked at the very start of the window (2,199 on 2022-07-07), drifted down since, touched a window low of 1,991 on 2025-12-28, and stands at 2,031 — a net decline of about 8% over four years. Set against the >100 BTC tier's +29% expansion over the same span, the direction of change in large-holder structure is unambiguous: thousand-coin-plus mega-units are slowly thinning while hundred-coin institutional shards multiply.

One: the multi-year drain of exchange reserves — exchange cold wallets are major members of this tier, and on-exchange supply fell from its 2021 peak of 3.18M coins to about 2.66M (Coin Metrics scope, charted on this site), directly deleting counts here. Two: custodial sharding — the same coins moving from one 5,000-coin address into twenty 250-coin addresses subtracts one here and adds twenty to the >100 page, with no change of ownership. Three: genuine distribution — some early whales trimming into cycle strength. The chain confirms the decline; it cannot apportion it among the three. Any reading that asserts a single cause claims more than the data supports.

This page earns its keep on an annual timescale: it is the most direct reading of whether the chain's largest entities are consolidating or expanding. Three practical notes. With a population near 2,000, daily moves are almost entirely noise or wallet operations — read multi-month trends only. The claim whale addresses falling = whales selling is this tier's most popular fallacy; rule out sharding and exchange effects first. And read it against cumulative ETF inflows: in the ETF era, shrinking address whales and growing beneficial-ownership whales (holding via ETF shares) can coexist — on-chain addresses are no longer a complete census of large holders.

1,000+ BTC is the conventional 'whale' threshold. Growth or decline in this cohort is widely read as a proxy for institutional accumulation vs distribution — it rose notably before the 2020 institutional bull run.

Alongside on-chain distribution, track derivatives positioning via open interest and long/short ratios.