This is one of the reasons why Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $2 trillion compared to other shitcoins. With a simple command, you can add up all the unspent UTXOs and get the total number of Bitcoins in circulation: bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo { "height": 932643, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000196ab6fa68facef16cd02f6041e887e75cbb8864577ad", "txouts": 165096808, "bogosize": 12935339180, "total_amount": 19976782.40781867, "transactions": 114766818, "disk_size": 11369969918 } You can also list all the UTXOs with unspent Bitcoins and dump them into a file: bitcoin-cli -rpcclienttimeout=0 dumptxoutset utxo.dat latest There is no deception or uncertainty, only certainty and determinism, as certain as adding up the numbers written on a piece of paper, in this case on the blockchain.