While bitcoin hovers above the $117.7K mark, cruising close to $118K, its elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, now ranks as the 11th wealthiest person on Earth—edging out Michael Dell, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies.
Satoshi’s Unmoved Coins Could Crown Him King of Global Wealth
With an estimated 1.096 million BTC valued at $128.92 billion, Nakamoto has climbed the ranks of global wealth. The entire stash is locked away behind private keys and consists of untouched coinbase rewards from bitcoin’s earliest mining days between 2009 and 2010.
At $117.5K per BTC, Nakamoto’s wealth stood at around $128.9 billion.
As of 11:30 p.m. on July 11, 2025, based on Bitstamp’s exchange rate and Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Nakamoto sits just above Michael Dell’s $124.8 billion fortune. One rung higher in the No. 10 spot is Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, whose net worth currently sits at $141.1 billion.
To leapfrog Brin, bitcoin would need to trade at $128,743 per coin. And to eclipse Elon Musk—still No. 1 with a $401.2 billion fortune—bitcoin would have to hit roughly $366,241. If that happens, Nakamoto would claim the title of the world’s richest individual.
That is, assuming Nakamoto is still among us. Over the last decade, the coins have never budged, and many believe they never will. Still, the thought of Satoshi outpacing Musk isn’t so far-fetched these days—it’s almost too easy to picture.
Based solely on dormant holdings, Nakamoto’s crypto fortune stands toe-to-toe with legacy empires. The untouched stash continues to spark questions about the inventor’s identity, motives, and whether their even still alive. If bitcoin keeps climbing, this unknown figure could leap past today’s most famous billionaires—flipping the script on how wealth is built. The mystery lives on.
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