Bitcoin Rich List April 2026: Who Owns the Most BTC Right Now?

Bitcoin price hovered at $76,822 on Tuesday following slight market consolidation. The world’s largest cryptocurrency recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $37.68 billion. 

BTC price experienced a gain of 2.28% per day, which indicates consistent purchasing power. 

Live market capitalization of Bitcoin was almost 1.53 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap data. The supply circulating was 20,018,821 BTC, approaching its limit of 21 million. 

The recent data provided by Arkham Intelligence provided a greater detail on major holders. The update presents the level of concentration of Bitcoin ownership with early adopters and large institutions.

Who Owns the Most Bitcoin in April 2026?

The April analysis of the April breakdown of Arkham reveals that Satoshi Nakamoto is the biggest known holder. Wallets linked to Bitcoin’s creator contain 1,096,361.09 BTC. 

That amount is approximately 5.48% of the supply that has been tracked. The coins are worth approximately 82 billion at their present value.

Satoshi Nakamoto

The accumulations are the result of early mining in the early years of the Bitcoin project. Majority of these coins have not been used at all since their minting. This has contributed to the speculation of long-term security and access lost. Nevertheless, the stash remains on the top of the rich list.

Coinbase

Coinbase is the second name among the labeled entities in the Arkham data. The exchange also has 976,154.65 BTC in custody of the users. This amount represents about 4.88% of the tracked supply. Coinbase alone holds about five percent of all the circulating Bitcoin.

BlackRock

BlackRock is ranked third with 799,151.04 BTC in its investment products. The distribution takes into consideration about 3.99%of supply in the ranking. The increased demand in ETFs has increased its exposure to Bitcoin.

Binance

Binance trails behind with 631,152.54 BTC in its labeled wallets. The aggregate of those is approximately 3.15% of tracked holdings. The cold wallets of Binance are mainly used to store the deposits of clients other than the company deposits.

Fidelity Custody

Fidelity Custody comes next with 454,660.31 BTC under management. It has holdings of 2.27% of supply exhibited. The company is still growing its institutional digital asset offerings.

Strategy

Strategy, also known as MicroStrategy, is still a large corporate Bitcoin supporter. The treasury of the company holds 445,568.77 BTC. Strategy recently bought another 34,164 BTC. The move strengthens the asset of Bitcoin as a corporate reserve.

United States Government

The U.S. Government owns 328,361.36 BTC as a result of several criminal seizures of assets. These holdings are about 1.64% of the tracked supply. Categories of digital assets are regularly auctioned off by authorities.

Institutional Flows and Crypto Market Momentum

On April 20 (ET) the net inflows of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs amounted to a total of $238 million, the 5th day of net inflows in a row, according to SoSoValue.

According to SoSoValue, on April 20 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a total net inflow of $238 million, marking the 5th consecutive day of net inflows. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $67.77 million, marking the 8th consecutive day of net inflows. pic.twitter.com/O1kc8BSo9g

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs received almost $1 billion in flows. Market is still guided by institutional and retail demand. There are also exchange-controlled wallets of Robinhood and Upbit which are also of considerable size. These exchange reserves are to a great extent customer deposits in cold storage.