Observed prices · not a model
How many Big Macs is one Bitcoin?
United States · 2011 → today
5 burgers → 14,301 burgers
peak: 16,062 (2025) · last observed 2026-01-01
Each dot: BTC close on an Economist observation date ÷ the observed US Big Mac price.
Same two datasets as the Big Mac in sats, denominator flipped: instead of pricing the burger in Bitcoin, we price one whole bitcoin in burgers. It's the more visceral framing of the same purchasing-power story — a unit of hard money measured in lunch.
Sources: The Economist Big Mac index, US series (CC BY 4.0) · SatsAtlas BTC daily closes