Sats Basket

Everyday expenses and income in dollars, then in bitcoin.

Official U.S. prices for groceries, a new house, energy, and an hour of work — shown in dollars and counted in bitcoin. This is not a guide to paying with bitcoin at the store. Open a family, pick an item.

Household Expenses

Household Income

Eggs, Grade A large

per dozenRolling 10 years

From Jul 2016 to Jul 2026, eggs rose 41.6% in dollars and fell 98.6% in bitcoin. You still pay dollars; the bitcoin figure is the same price counted in another unit.

Bitcoin axis

A sat (satoshi) is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin — 100,000,000 sats = 1 BTC (similar to 100 pennies in $1.00). Everyday prices are easier to read in whole sats than in 0.00012 BTC. Switch to BTC if you think in coins instead of change.

US dollar

Bitcoin

Dollar price

$2.19

from $1.55 in Jul 2016

+41.6% in dollars

Bitcoin price

3,485 sats

from 247,486 sats in Jul 2016

-98.6% in sats

One bitcoin buys

28.7kdozen

vs 404 dozen in Jul 2016

71.0× more

BLS Average Price Data (FRED APU0000708111). Bitcoin: Yahoo Finance BTC-USD monthly close. Window Jul 2016 – Jul 2026.