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Direct answer · Data release 1.0.0-draft.2 · chain through block 960,000 · built 2026-08-08

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

Answered from checked-in data · published 2026-09-23 · substantively modified 2026-10-02 · Markdown · All answers as JSON

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+”.

There is more than one meaning of “typical”

The mode is the degree with the largest count. The median is the first degree at which the cumulative count reaches half of scored records. Neither is the arithmetic mean, and neither describes a typical person.

The “100+” display label compresses the long tail for presentation. It does not say that every such address has exactly 100 hops or that the underlying histogram stops there.

Inspect the supporting records below.

How to check this answer

  1. Find the largest row count to reproduce the mode.
  2. Accumulate counts to half the scored total to reproduce the median.
  3. Distinguish an underlying degree from a capped display label.

Evidence

  1. Degree 6 is the modal scored-address degree in the serving histogram. Source
  2. Cumulative share reaches 50% at degree 8 (59.64% of scored addresses are at or within it). Source
  3. 2.10128% of scored address records sit beyond degree 100; the post-Patoshi maximum degree is 25,349. The maximum-degree path has not yet been inspected, so the tail is reported without a behavioral interpretation. Source

What this answer does not claim

The population is the release’s scored address records. Unscored records do not receive an invented distance, and the distribution should not be described as a distribution of users or balances.

These explanations were revised with AI assistance. Figures are computed from the stated data release; substantive content and SEO changes go through a separate source review. No named human or external expert review is implied.

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Degrees of Satoshi. “How far is a typical Bitcoin address from Satoshi’s mining era?” Answered from data release 1.0.0-draft.2, published 2026-09-23; modified 2026-10-02. https://degreesofsatoshi.com/answers/what-is-a-typical-degree-from-satoshi/