Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It enables peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions without intermediaries like banks or governments, operating on a blockchain secured by Proof of Work mining and the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm.
With a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins and programmatic halvings every four years that reduce miner rewards, Bitcoin is designed as a deflationary digital asset often called "digital gold." Its value stems from solving the double-spending problem without trusted intermediaries, creating the first truly scarce digital asset with censorship resistance and permissionless access that no government, corporation, or individual can control.
Bitcoin operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer network where transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, distributed across thousands of computers globally. Transactions are grouped into blocks added approximately every 10 minutes through mining, where specialized computers compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles.
Bitcoin has achieved mainstream adoption through multiple vectors. The January 2024 SEC approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs opened Bitcoin investment to traditional finance participants, and corporations like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are using Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to protect against currency debasement, offering MSTR holders amplified exposure to Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like Ordinals, which emerged in January 2023 to enable NFT-like functionality directly on Bitcoin, and BRC-20 tokens, an experimental standard for creating fungible tokens using Ordinal inscriptions. BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance) represents emerging financial applications extending beyond Bitcoin's traditional role, with protocols like Babylon allowing Bitcoin holders to stake BTC to secure Proof of Stake chains.
Bitcoin turned over $5,496,941,321 across the venues we index in the last 24 hours, which is 0.34% of its market capitalisation — a figure worth watching, because turnover well above its usual level tends to accompany the sharper moves.
The highest price our index has recorded is $124,658.62 on Oct 6, 2025, leaving BTC −36.13% from that peak.
The lowest is $58,628.50 on Jun 30, 2026, putting the price today +35.81% above that low.
Measured on Coinmico's own index since Dec 31, 2024, not on prices reported by someone else.
Bitcoin is valued at $1,598,493,500,187, which ranks it #1 among the assets we track. It is the price of one coin multiplied by the 20,075,275 BTC in circulation.
At today's price, the full supply of 21,000,000 BTC would be worth $1,598,667,634,132. 95.60% of that supply is already circulating, so the rest is what dilution would still add.
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Bitcoin (BTC) price has increased today.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is $79,624.99 today with a 24-hour trading volume of $5,496,941,321. This represents a 0.28% price increase in the last 24 hours and a 3.57% price increase in the past 7 days. With a circulating supply of 20.1 Million BTC, Bitcoin is valued at a market cap of $1,598,493,500,187.
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