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Elon Musk's net worth briefly surpassed Bitcoin's entire global market capitalization on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, after a third consecutive day of explosive trading in SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX). Shares of the rocket and AI company climbed past $200 intraday and touched a high of $225.64, pushing SpaceX's market value as high as $2.94 trillion before closing at $2.65 trillion making it the world's fifth-largest public company, ahead of Amazon and briefly ahead of Microsoft. Forbes' real-time tracker placed Musk's net worth at approximately $1.4 trillion at the peak, while Bloomberg's Billionaires Index recorded a single-day gain of $164 billion and a closing net worth of $1.32 trillion more than the entire net worth Warren Buffett built over his career. At the same window, Bitcoin's total market capitalization sat near $1.31 trillion at a price of roughly $65,500–$66,500 per coin with roughly 19.9 million coins in circulation, meaning one individual was on paper worth more than every Bitcoin...

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