Everyone alive is in each square. Each pixel stands for about 7,100 people.
Bitcoin
AI
The bottom-left corners, enlarged 16 times:
The square of people who hold their own bitcoin keys has half the area of the square of people who give AI agents real work. Self-custody is twice as rare.
Bitcoin
- The rest have not heard of bitcoin
- 4.5 billion have heard of bitcoin
- 600 million own some crypto
- 250 million own bitcoin
- 10 million hold their own keys: one in 830
- 500,000 understand it is freedom (our guess)
- 108,000 run a bitcoin node
AI
- The rest have barely touched an AI
- 1.6 billion use a free AI chatbot
- 20 million give AI agents real work: one in 415
- 5,000 inside the labs use what is not released yet
Multisig, counted on our own node
We read every block on our own node and counted every wallet that spent from a 2-of-3 or wider multisig.
Wallets that spent from multisig in 2025. Two ways of grouping addresses into wallets give the range.
88.5 million 2-of-3 addresses have been spent from since 2012.
What is multisig? →Hold your own keys
The future is already here. It is just not held evenly.
Want help holding your own keys? →Giving AI agents real work means giving them a terminal. Doing that safely is the hard part: Hardening a Linux agent server.
Sources. People: UN World Population Prospects 2024, for 2026. Heard of bitcoin: our estimate from 6.0 billion internet users (ITU, 2025) and an 88% awareness survey (Block and Wakefield, 14 countries, 2022). Crypto and bitcoin owners: Crypto.com (first half of 2026, a ceiling) and River (2023). Own keys: our estimate from 24.9 million addresses holding at least 0.001 BTC (12 October 2026), at 2 to 5 addresses per person. Nodes: Luke Dashjr’s node count, 12 October 2026. Multisig: our own node, 12 October 2026. AI: Andrej Karpathy on X, 9 April and 11 October 2026. The “understand it is freedom” square is our guess, not data.