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Bitcoin Price History

The price of Bitcoin is known to be highly volatile, but despite this, it has become the best performing asset of any class (including stocks, commodities and bonds) over the past decade – rising an impressive 9,000,000% between 2010 and 2020.


When the cryptocurrency was launched at the beginning of 2009, as Satoshi Nakamoto mined the bitcoin genesis block (the first-ever block on the Bitcoin blockchain), 50 BTC entered circulation at a price of $0.00.


Fifty bitcoin continued to enter circulation every block (created once every 10 minutes) until the first halving event took place in November 2012 (see below). Halvings refer to bitcoin’s issuance system, which was programmed into Bitcoin’s code by Satoshi Nakamoto. It essentially involves automatically halving the number of new BTC entering circulation every 210,000 blocks.


In February 2011, BTC’s price reached parity with the U.S dollar for the first time.


The milestone encouraged new investors into the market, and over the next four months, bitcoin’s price continued to rise – peaking at over $30.



Bitcoin Price 2017

By early 2013, the leading cryptocurrency had recovered from a prolonged bearish episode and rose above $1,000, albeit only briefly.


But with the infamous Mt Gox hack, China announcing its first ban on crypto and other situations, it took a further four years for the BTC price to return to above $1,000 again.


Once that level was passed, however, bitcoin’s price continued to surge dramatically throughout 2017 until BTC peaked at its previous long-standing all-time high of $19,850.


Over 2018, the entire crypto market plunged into what is now known as the “crypto winter” – a yearlong bear market.


It wasn’t until December 2020, when bitcoin returned to test the previous all-time high, that it eventually surpassed that historical level and rose a further 239% over the next 119 days to a new all-time high of $64,799.

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