# Bitcoin address proximity: answers, evidence and limits

Direct, sourced answers to the questions people ask about how close Bitcoin addresses are to Satoshi’s mining era, each computed from a versioned data release.

Start with the question you want to answer. Each page gives a direct answer, its supporting records, steps to reproduce the result and the limits of the claim. Numerical results come from the stated data release; the explanations identify how to read them.

## Three distinctions to keep beside the numbers

### Address record and person

A graph result describes records and eligible transaction paths. It does not establish a person’s identity, an account balance or endorsement by Satoshi.

### At a degree and within a degree

“At” counts one degree. “Within” adds every degree from 0 through the selected threshold. Check whether a percentage uses scored records or all records.

### Release scope and live activity

These pages describe the published release and its block-height limit. They do not automatically include later transactions or changes to the curated catalogue.

## How these are built

The calculations read the checked-in methodology, serving histogram, curated catalogue and researched histories. The explanations are AI-assisted editorial content with separate automated source verification; no named human or external expert review is implied. A content correction can change an explanation without changing the underlying dataset.

- Published 2026-09-23 · Data release 1.0.0-draft.2 · chain through block 960,000 · built 2026-08-08
- JSON: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/answers.json

## Is this Bitcoin address Satoshi’s?

An address’s transaction history does not establish that Satoshi controlled it. This release identifies 28,583 early-mining addresses in its working anchor set (degree 0) and measures eligible directed transaction paths from that set. Neither membership nor a short path is proof of identity.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/is-this-bitcoin-address-satoshis/

## Which exchange address is closest to Satoshi’s mining era?

Among the exchange addresses in the curated catalog, Kraken and QuadrigaCX (defunct) are the closest at 3 degrees; OKX (formerly OKEx) is at 4. These are the documented addresses only: an exchange controls many addresses, and the catalog scores one published record per dossier.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/which-exchange-address-is-closest-to-satoshi/

## Can the genesis block’s 50 BTC be spent?

No, under the current rules. The genesis block’s original coinbase output was not entered into Bitcoin’s spendable-output set. Later payments to the associated address create separate outputs whose spending conditions, including any required signature, must still be satisfied.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/can-the-genesis-block-coins-be-spent/

## How many Bitcoin addresses are within a few degrees of Satoshi’s mining era?

46,510 addresses are within two degrees of the anchor set (28,583 at degree 0, 1,205 at degree 1 and 16,722 at degree 2), 1,212,738 are within three, and 459,542,622 — 33.7% of the 1,364,936,252 scored addresses — are within six, all measured through block 960,000.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/how-many-bitcoin-addresses-are-within-a-few-degrees-of-satoshi/

## How far is a typical Bitcoin address from Satoshi’s mining era?

The most common degree is 6 (262,704,782 scored addresses, 19.2%), and half of all scored addresses are within 8 degrees; the tail is long, reaching 25,349 at the deepest, which is why the site displays anything past 100 as “100+”.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/what-is-a-typical-degree-from-satoshi/

## How long was the gap between Bitcoin’s genesis block and block 1?

5 days, 8 hours, 39 minutes and 20 seconds: block 0 is timestamped 1231006505 and block 1 is timestamped 1231469665, an interval of 463,160 seconds, so the “six days” figure that is widely repeated overstates what the two block headers record.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/how-long-between-the-genesis-block-and-block-1/

## How many Bitcoin address records have no eligible route in this release?

165,871,862 address records — 10.84% of all records in the release — have on-chain history but no eligible directed path to the anchor set under this release’s traversal and terminal rules, so they have no assigned degree. This is a graph-reachability result, not proof of literal coin ancestry, ownership, or the absence of every possible transaction connection.

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/how-many-bitcoin-addresses-have-no-route-to-satoshi/

## Which known Bitcoin addresses are closest to Satoshi’s mining era?

Of the 25 documented records in the curated catalog, 2 sit inside the anchor set at degree 0 (Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0); Patoshi-Pattern Early Mining Set (2009-2010)), 3 are one hop away (Hal Finney — Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction (Block 170); The Bitcoin Faucet (2010) — Published Donation Address; Dormant Bitcoin Addresses: Nine On-Chain Records), and 2 are two hops away (SatoshiDice betting addresses (1dice…); WikiLeaks published donation address (2011)).

Evidence and data: https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/which-known-bitcoin-addresses-are-closest-to-satoshi/