The total weight of all Bitcoins today: 3 kg The amount of energy required to create a parallel (fake) chains is so huge that it makes more sense to express it in kilograms. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on total sustained mining power consumption in 2017, extrapolating back, using the good old E=mc^2, yields the average weight of a bitcoin of about 0.2mg. This makes Bitcoin the most expensive substance today. |