What is the current price of bitcoin?
As of 8 a.m. ET, the price of bitcoin, or 1 BTC, was $59,848.50. The crypto’s highest intraday price in the past year was $73,750.07 on March 14, 2024.
Bitcoin chart
The chart above is pulling data as of 8 a.m. ET daily and doesn’t display intraday highs or lows.
Bitcoin prices
*The return comparisons are as of 8 a.m. ET.
Bitcoin’s all-time high was on March 14, 2024, trading at $73,750.07 per bitcoin. The lowest intraday price that the crypto traded in the past year was $26,011.47 on Sep. 25, 2023. The original crypto is up by 120% year over year.
BTC had very humble beginnings when it was launched in January 2009. Since then, the world’s first cryptocurrency has completely shifted global financial markets and amassed a global market capitalization of $1.18 trillion.
The crypto is also becoming a popular alternative to government-backed fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, which tend to lose value over time due to inflation.
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