Bitcoin Price
$81,874
-4.22% (24h)
Best Bitcoin All-Time High Price
$108,786
Jan 20, 2025
Bitcoin Price Change (7d)
-5.14%
Bitcoin Market Cap
$1,624,585,810,317
Bitcoin to USD Chart (Last 7 Days)
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Bitcoin Market Statistics
Bitcoin Price Changes
1h: -0.47%
24h: -4.22%
7d: -5.14%
30d: -0.98%
1y: 24.37%
Bitcoin All-Time High
$108,786
January 20, 2025
-24.74% from ATH
Bitcoin All-Time Low
$67.81
July 6, 2013
120634.34% from ATL
Bitcoin Market Cap & Volume
Market Cap: $1,624,585,810,317
24h Volume: $51,698,769,585
Volume/Market Cap: 0.0318
Bitcoin Supply Information
Circulating Supply: 19,845,965 BTC
Max Supply: 21,000,000 BTC
Total Supply: 19,845,965 BTC
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first successful internet money based on peer-to-peer technology; whereby no central bank or authority is involved in the transaction and production of the Bitcoin currency. It was created by an anonymous individual/group under the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. The source code is available publicly as an open source project, anybody can look at it and be part of the developmental process.
Bitcoin is changing the way we see money as we speak. The idea was to produce a means of exchange, independent of any central authority, that could be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable and immutable way. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer internet currency making mobile payment easy, very low transaction fees, protects your identity, and it works anywhere all the time with no central authority and banks.
Bitcoin is designed to have only 21 million BTC ever created, thus making it a deflationary currency. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with an average transaction confirmation time of 10 minutes. Miners today are mining Bitcoin using ASIC chip dedicated to only mining Bitcoin, and the hash rate has shot up to peta hashes.
Being the first successful online cryptography currency, Bitcoin has inspired other alternative currencies such as Litecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and so on.
The cryptocurrency then took off with the innovation of the turing-complete smart contract by Ethereum which led to the development of other amazing projects such as EOS, Tron, and even crypto-collectibles such as CryptoKitties.
Bitcoin Resources
Official Bitcoin Website
http://www.bitcoin.orgBitcoin Block Explorer
https://mempool.space/Bitcoin Official Forum
https://bitcointalk.org/Bitcoin Subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/