🍔 Big Mac in Costa Rica
Priced in Bitcoin satoshis · 1 meal
Today, in sats
7.1k
sats / 1 meal
Today, in USD
$5.50
per 1 meal
Priced in sats over time
🍔 Big Mac in Costa Rica, in sats vs fiat
How big mac (1 meal) has moved when you price it in Bitcoin satoshis. As BTC's purchasing power rose, the same item cost fewer sats — but more sats through every BTC drawdown. Both are shown.
Then vs now — big mac in Costa Rica, from 2016-08-26 to today
Cost then
955.3k sats
Cost now
7.1k sats
Change in sats
-99.3%
BTC vs then
+13381%
Cheaper in sats today than at the start of this window — Bitcoin gained purchasing power faster than local prices rose.
Big Mac (1 meal) in Costa Rica, priced in sats
Pure BTC (today's value held constant)Solid line + dots: real observed prices — The Economist Big Mac index (CC BY 4.0), converted to sats at each date's actual BTC price. Orange area: modelled from today's price ($5.50 / 1 meal) @ $77,852/BTC. Today's USD value held constant; only BTC's price varies. An order-of-magnitude estimate, not a log of observed receipts.