Everything, priced in Bitcoin.
A dollar is a ruler that shrinks. Measure the price of a house, a share of the stock market, or an hour of your labour in bitcoin instead — a unit nobody can print — and a different picture appears. In dollars, almost everything gets more expensive. In bitcoin, almost everything gets cheaper.
US benchmarks, 2014 to 2025, from official statistics. The years that don't flatter bitcoin are shown honestly on every page.
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How this is measured
Each dollar figure is an annual average from an official US series on FRED — the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the EIA, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The bitcoin price for each year is the annual average of weekly BTC/USD closes from Kraken, the same market data behind the rest of this site. Dividing one by the other gives the bitcoin price of each benchmark, year by year.
Series begin at the first full year of bitcoin market data and run to the last complete year, so no endpoint is hand-picked to flatter the result. Every asset page also surfaces the least flattering single year — the one where the price rose in bitcoin terms — because a measuring stick is only useful if it is honest in both directions.
Questions
- What does 'priced in bitcoin' mean?
- Instead of measuring the price of something in dollars, you measure it in bitcoin — how many bitcoin, or satoshis, it takes to buy one unit. Because the supply of bitcoin is fixed and the supply of dollars is not, most things have fallen in bitcoin terms over time even as their dollar price rose.
- Why do prices fall when measured in bitcoin?
- Two forces pull in the same direction. Dollars lose purchasing power as the money supply expands, pushing dollar prices up. Bitcoin has gained purchasing power as adoption grew against a capped supply. Divide one by the other and the bitcoin price of most goods and assets trends down.
- Is this just cherry-picking bitcoin's best years?
- Every series here starts at the earliest full year of bitcoin market data and runs to the last complete year — no hand-picked endpoints. Each asset page also shows the least flattering single year, when the price rose in bitcoin terms. Short windows can run against the holder; the full series is what the charts show.
- Where does the data come from?
- Dollar prices are annual averages from official US series on FRED (Census, BLS, EIA, S&P Dow Jones Indices). Bitcoin prices are annual averages of weekly Kraken closes, with a current spot from CoinGecko. Nothing is typed into the copy; every number is computed from the dataset.