2,208,437 sats
The U.S. median gross rent of 2021 ($1,191 a month, Census American Community Survey), moved with the CPI rent of primary residence index.
Jul 2015: ₿3.41 ($977.80) → Aug 2026: ₿0.0221 ($1,535). Sats prices fall when bitcoin's purchasing power rises. In work time: 135 hours then, 212 hours now, at the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour).
Missing months: Oct 2025.
Sats: orange area, right scale. USD: blue line, left scale. Monthly values; sats at each month's average BTC price
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SEHA. Monthly index, not seasonally adjusted.
Dollar value = $1,191 × index ÷ index in Jul 2021. Source of the starting amount. CPI indexes adjust for quality changes, so this can rise more slowly than sticker prices.
Sats use the average of BTC's daily closes (Coinbase, UTC) in each month; for the current month, the average so far.