BTC: Cumulative Value-Days Destroyed — Priced Period

Bitcoin Cumulative Value-Days Destroyed — Priced Period was 1,903,467,096,559,305.91 USD-days on 7 Nov 2026 (latest daily value).

The running total of Bitcoin's value-days destroyed since 17 July 2010: each coin spent, times the days it sat unmoved, times the day's price, in USD-days.

Why use it. It adds up how much old, valuable bitcoin has moved over the priced history; its slope shows when long-held coins came back into use. How to read it. It only rises; a steeper climb means more old coins moving at high prices, as in bull-market profit-taking. Days before 17 July 2010 have no price and are left out, so it is not a total since the first block. Moves between a holder's own addresses are included.

Calculation. Exact definition: Running total of daily value-days destroyed from the first priced UTC day, 2010-07-17, in USD-days. Daily only. Each day adds a nonnegative product, and the sum never restarts with the chart viewport. Destruction before 2010-07-17 is excluded, not valued at zero, so this is not a full genesis total. Any missing or invalid day makes that day and all later totals unknown until repaired. Change and self-transfers are included; no entity, investor or sale is inferred. Open or unsealed days are null, sealed days short of six confirmations may stay provisional, and prices remain revisable. Cumulative sum of Daily Value-Days Destroyed: native coin-days destroyed times that day's admitted ending USD/BTC quote. CDD sums every eligible spent output's BTC times max(0, spending header time minus creation header time)/86400, from our own validated Bitcoin Core node. Day D uses the D+1 00:00 UTC quote: before 2026-10-03 a retrospective previous-day close with unknown release time and vintage, afterwards a retained prospective quote at or before the boundary within 15 minutes. Products use 40-significant-digit Decimal arithmetic with guarded exact accumulation.