Chicken, whole roasting, per kg priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2024
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Chicken, whole roasting, per kg (per kg) cost £3.13 in 2015 and £3.79 in 2024, a change of +21% in pounds across 9 years. The figures are annual averages from ONS, RPI: Ave price - Chicken: roasting, ovn ready, frsh/chilld, Kg (series CZOM). The fiat peak in this series came in 2023 at £3.80.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 1,729,282 sats to 7,245 sats, a change of −99.6%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +86% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
The cheapest protein in the basket, and the one households trade down to. Its price path is the quiet backbone of the weekly shop.
One grocery line proves nothing on its own. Repeated across the whole basket on the main page, the pattern stops looking like noise and starts looking like a property of the unit of account.
| Year | Pounds | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £3.13 | 1,729,282 |
| 2016 | £2.92 | 662,132 |
| 2017 | £2.82 | 98,636 |
| 2018 | £2.82 | 53,288 |
| 2019 | £2.75 | 46,745 |
| 2020 | £2.54 | 27,875 |
| 2021 | £2.71 | 7,799 |
| 2022 | £3.20 | 14,470 |
| 2023 | £3.80 | 16,084 |
| 2024 | £3.79 | 7,245 |
Source: ONS, RPI: Ave price - Chicken: roasting, ovn ready, frsh/chilld, Kg (CZOM). Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.