Realized Loss
Profit / Loss
Total USD loss realised by coins moving below their cost basis on a given day. Spikes mark capitulation events near bottoms.
Current Value
$-187,458,799
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
—
Signal
No threshold
Methodology
Open, reproducible — computed from our own archive node
Definition
Realized Loss — total USD loss (as a positive magnitude) from coins moving below their cost basis.
Formula
realized_loss = Σ |min(realized_value_usd − cost_basis_usd, 0)|How we compute it
Summed per-spend negative component (preferred input `realized_loss_usd`), reported as a positive magnitude.
Interpretation
Spikes mark capitulation events near bottoms — large-scale loss realization.
Caveats & limitations
- ·Inherits cost-basis accuracy from the UTXO cost-basis model.
Current Realized Loss reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Realized Loss is $-187.5M, compared with $-1.2B one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,236 daily readings from 2009-01-12 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Realized Loss on record is $0 on 2009-01-12; the lowest is $-7.1B on 2026-02-05. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.
Read it with
- Supply in Profit — Percentage of circulating supply currently in profit.
- Profit Ratio — Ratio of profitable to total spent outputs.
- Profit Momentum — Rate of change in profit-taking.
- Profit Oscillator — Mean-reverting profit oscillator.
- Net Realized P/L — Net realized profit minus loss in USD.
Data & method
Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Profit / Loss. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.