Bitcoin to silver: how much silver does 1 BTC buy?
One bitcoin currently buys roughly 974.97 troy oz. The ratio is recomputed every day at 02:00 UTC from the latest BTC-USD price (CoinGecko) and the silver spot price (GoldAPI.io). The full history is published as a free CC-BY-4.0 dataset at /data so you can run your own gold-silver-bitcoin ratio analysis.
Silver is the high-volatility cousin in the precious-metals stack. It tracks gold loosely but has industrial-demand exposure (solar PV, electronics, batteries) that breaks the correlation in either direction. Pricing BTC in silver tends to amplify whatever's happening in BTC-USD because silver itself is the noisier denominator.
Open the interactive viewer → — scrub the slider from 1 sat to 21 M BTC, or drag the date back to 2013 to see how the cube grows and shrinks across history.
About silver and bitcoin
Silver is markedly less dense than gold — 10.49 g/cm³ versus 19.32 g/cm³ — so the same dollar value buys a much larger physical volume. The cube renderer on the homepage draws silver to true relative scale; at a thousand-USD position the cube is already palpably bigger than the equivalent gold cube. A US Mint "monster box" holds 500 troy oz; the comparison panel surfaces that as a tile when 1 BTC clears that threshold.
For machine-readable access, the BTC-silver pair is in the full daily dataset at /data alongside gold and Brent crude, plus historical platinum, copper, wheat, and coffee. The /methodology page documents the GoldAPI.io silver feed, the forward-fill behaviour on weekends and gaps, and the per-source health checks.
Frequently asked questions
- How many troy ounces of silver does 1 bitcoin buy today?
- About 974.97 troy oz. Recomputed daily at 02:00 UTC from GoldAPI.io silver spot and CoinGecko BTC-USD.
- How is the BTC-to-silver ratio calculated?
- Each day's BTC-USD price divided by the same day's silver price (USD per troy ounce). BTC comes from CoinGecko, silver from GoldAPI.io. Full methodology is at /methodology.
- Is this spot silver or physical bullion?
- Spot. Physical silver coins (Silver Eagles, Maples) and bars typically trade at a 10–25% premium to spot — much higher than gold premiums because silver's lower unit value makes minting/handling costs a bigger fraction.
- How does the bitcoin-silver ratio compare to gold-silver?
- The classic gold-silver ratio has averaged around 60:1 over modern history (more silver per ounce of gold). Compounding that into BTC terms, you can read the BTC-silver ratio off the BTC-gold ratio multiplied by gold-silver. The dataset has both series so you can chart the divergence directly.
- Where does the silver data come from?
- GoldAPI.io spot (USD per troy ounce). Forward-filled on weekends and gaps. See /methodology for full source notes.
This ratio through history
Each year page summarises what one bitcoin bought at that year's open and close, drawn from the same daily dataset.