2,896,094 sats
One household month, priced from the items on this site: a median rent, 4 grocery bags (one a week), 50 gallons of gasoline, 899 kWh of electricity (EIA's average U.S. household, 2022) and Netflix Standard. Illustrative, not a full budget.
Jul 2015: ₿4.57 ($1,311) → Aug 2026: ₿0.029 ($2,012). Sats prices fall when bitcoin's purchasing power rises. In work time: 181 hours then, 278 hours now, at the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour).
A sum of other items, so it is missing in any month one of them is missing (e.g. October 2025, when BLS published nothing).
Missing months: May 2020, Oct 2025.
Sats: orange area, right scale. USD: blue line, left scale. Monthly values; sats at each month's average BTC price
Computed from BLS, Census and curated items on this site (source). Monthly.
Sats use the average of BTC's daily closes (Coinbase, UTC) in each month; for the current month, the average so far.