About Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) is a Layer-1 blockchain — it runs its own consensus, settles transactions natively, and hosts applications and tokens. It secures the network with SHA-256 proof-of-work mining.
Bitcoin
BTC#1$79,776.99+0.03%
Bitcoin price history summary
Bitcoin (BTC) is up +1.16% over the past 7 days, trading near $79,776.99.
Currently 36.73% below the all-time high of $126,080.
78% Bull
22% Bear
Market Cap
$1.60T
FD Market Cap
$1.68T
Dominance
59.16%
Vol / MC
1.14%
Volume 24h
$18.27B+38.90%
Circulating Supply
20.08M
96%
ATH
$126,080-36.73%
ATL
$67.81+118K%
GenesisJan 2009
AlgorithmSHA-256
News
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Bitcoin Surged 22% in August as Stocks Stalled: Is BTC Decoupling?
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‘We Are Whitehats': Nearly 4,000 BTC Drained From Blockstream's Liquid Peg
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Bitcoin : The 82,000 Dollar Threshold Blocks the Recovery After Weekend Slowdown
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Bitcoin's faces a weird new macro reality as the Fed turns off the tap and Treasury opens the floodgates
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Bitcoin's 4-Year Cycle Could Be Changing: Willy Woo Reveals What Could Replace It
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Difficulty Rises, Hashprice Rips 22% as Bitcoin Hashrate Stalls
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US Dollar Loses 97% of Purchasing Power as Bitcoin Gains Ground
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Berlin Rejects 30 BTC Ransom as Hackers Leak 5.7TB of Data
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Events
Event | Date | Category | Source | Important |
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4/6/2026 | Announcement | |||
4/30/2024 | General | Important | ||
6/18/2023 | Regulation | Important | ||
2/17/2023 | Exchange | |||
11/1/2021 | Update | |||
6/8/2021 | Regulation | Important | ||
4/15/2021 | Exchange | |||
12/24/2020 | Exchange | Important | ||
8/9/2020 | Exchange | |||
7/30/2020 | Exchange | Important |
Fundamentals
- ATH contextCurrently trading 36.7% below its all-time high of $126,080.
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Bitcoin (BTC) maintains an active community across social platforms and an open-source developer base. The metrics below give a snapshot of audience reach and ongoing technical activity, two signals that often correlate with long-term project health.
Developer
Stars73.2K
Forks36.4K
Watchers4.0K
PRs Merged11.2K
Contributors846
4wk changes+1.6K / -1.9K
GitHub commit activity over the last 4 weeks