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 in existence. Musk's fortune now exceeds the combined wealth of the next four richest people on the Forbes list Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison. SpaceX has since pulled back modestly, with shares trading near $201 by Wednesday's session, but the milestone marks a moment with no historical precedent in modern wealth tracking. Disclaimer: Video contains AI generated content. ---
