Current buying power

What 1 ₿ buys today

The same market pull, inverted into real-world units. These cards make the dashboard easier to read before going into historical charts.

Scenario mode

What can your ₿ buy?

Enter any BTC amount to translate it into dollars, gold, the S&P 500, and U.S. housing purchasing power using the latest available data.

BTC amount

Time Machine

What did 1 ₿ buy then?

Pick a historical quarter and compare 1 ₿ buying power then against the current snapshot across the same reference assets.

Historical quarter

Time Machine compares a selected quarter with the current snapshot.

Reading asset charts

Higher index lines, lower BTC-required lines.

Index charts are better when they rise. Required-to-buy charts are better when they fall.

Log scale Better for multi-cycle moves

Performance summary

Purchasing-power change by asset

A compact answer layer before the charts: how bitcoin purchasing power changed over one year, five years, and the full available series.

Relative purchasing power

Indexed to the first observation

Each line starts at 100. Higher values mean one bitcoin buys more of that reference asset than it did at the beginning of the series.

Cross-asset comparison

Purchasing-power index

This view normalizes assets with very different units, making BTC's relative purchasing-power path easier to compare.

Derived from Yahoo Finance and FRED series

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Purchasing power over time

₿ required by asset

Orange lines show the ₿ cost of each reference asset. Blue dotted lines show the same asset priced in U.S. dollars where available.

Reading housing charts

Lower lines mean stronger housing purchasing power.

The housing charts show how many bitcoin are required for each housing milestone or region.

Log scale Better for long BTC cycles

Housing affordability

Median home milestones in ₿

Full-home prices are useful, but down payments are often the practical affordability threshold. This chart tracks all three.

Down-payment lens

U.S. median home affordability

Full median home price, 20% down payment, and 10% down payment, all measured in bitcoin.

Derived from FRED MSPUS and Yahoo Finance BTC-USD

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Regional affordability

Where one ₿ goes furthest

Regional FRED series make housing affordability less abstract. The cards show current regional buying power; the chart compares historical BTC requirements across regions.

Regional comparison

Median home by region in ₿

The BTC required for median homes in the U.S. and each census region. Lower lines indicate stronger housing purchasing power.

Derived from FRED MSPUS, MSPNE, MSPMW, MSPS, MSPW and Yahoo Finance BTC-USD

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Methodology

Simple ratios, clear caveats.

What is measured

The dashboard divides each asset's dollar price by the BTC/USD price. The result is the ₿ required to buy one unit of that asset.

Derived views

Current buying-power cards invert the same ratios. The index chart normalizes each series to 100 at its first observation.

Data cadence

Market data is pulled from Yahoo Finance and sampled at quarter end. Housing data comes from FRED and typically arrives with a lag.

Interpretation

A falling line means fewer ₿ are required, so ₿itcoin's purchasing power rose against that reference. A rising line means the opposite.

Scope

The S&P 500 series uses index level as a benchmark. This is a historical comparison tool, not investment advice.