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Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026Published at 12:35 AM EST · New York
Glassnode Says 35.4% of Issued Bitcoin Now Sits Behind Exposed Public Keys
The 7.12 million bitcoin estimate is above the 6.04 million the firm reported in May, as exchange address reuse and old coins add to the supply a future quantum computer could target.
Bitcoin's publicly exposed supply has reached 7.12 million coins, or 35.4% of all bitcoin issued, Glassnode said in a November 10 post on X reported by crypto.news. Exposed coins sit in outputs whose public keys are already visible on the b…
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