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What it is and how it moves
Bitcoin as a digital currency for payments and transfers
$84,750.00 +18.95% over 91 days Last updated: 2026-10-02
Bitcoin is a digital currency that runs on a global network of computers and is used to send and receive value without a central intermediary, while in many markets it is also treated as an asset that people hold over longer periods. The network records transactions in blocks, and these blocks are linked together in a public ledger so that anyone can verify the payment history independently. On this page you can see live data about Bitcoin and its trading symbol BTC.
Bitcoin differs from many other cryptocurrencies through a fixed issuance schedule, with a predefined program for creating new coins, and through a transaction confirmation method called proof of work, where participants use computing power to secure the network. The coin is the reward for those who validate blocks and it is the unit used to pay transaction fees and to settle transfers inside the system, which gives it a central role in how the network operates. The price of a single coin can move much more sharply than the price of a listed stock.
One real limitation is that the Bitcoin network can handle only a limited number of transactions per second compared with mainstream payment systems, which has led to fluctuating fees and the development of additional layer two solutions for faster and cheaper payments. The base protocol has gone through contentious debates and significant rule changes, including updates to transaction formats and scaling approaches, and adopting these changes has required coordination across a broad community of users and miners. The figures on this page reflect information available up to 2 October 2026.
Bitcoin price today
$84,750.00
Low $60,884.62High $124,658.54
Against the year's low+39.2%
Against the year's high-32.0%
Last 7 days+37.3%
Last 30 days+9.4%
Last 91 days+19.0%
Volatility
3.0%
- Volatility over a yearHow far the price rises and falls in a typical year. For coins the figure is several times higher than for shares.
- The deepest fallHow much the coin lost from its highest peak to the lowest point after it, over the period measured.
- On $1,000 investedThis is not what the coin gained or lost that day, but how far the price wandered inside the day. A large stock index usually wanders around one percent a day.
- Days it moved under 2%Counted over the last 91 trading days.
- Days between 2% and 5%Counted over the last 91 trading days.
- Days over 5%Counted over the last 91 trading days.
- Highest price ever reachedThe highest price the coin has ever traded at.
- Against the peak, todayHow far below the highest price ever reached today's price sits.
- To get back to the peak it would have to riseHow far today’s price would have to rise to get back to the peak. After a fall of half, getting back takes a doubling.
- $1,000 invested at the peak would be worth todayThe same sum in money: what would be left today of an amount put in right at the peak.
Statistics
issued 20.04Mcap 21M
- What all the coins are worthThe price of one coin times the number in circulation. It shows how the coin weighs against others, not whether it is cheap or expensive.
- Share of the crypto marketHow much of the value of all cryptocurrencies sits in this one.
- Coins in circulationHow many coins exist right now and can be bought or sold.
- How many can ever existThe maximum number of coins that can ever exist, written into the coin's rules. Some coins have no such limit.
- Still to be issuedWhat share of the maximum number of coins has not been issued yet. These coins can appear over time, and the existing ones then weigh less in the total.
- What all of them would be worth, at today's priceWhat all the coins would be worth if the maximum number already existed, at today's price. It is arithmetic, not a forecast.
How to buy Bitcoin
It is simpler than it looks. In a few steps you will know where to buy Bitcoin, where to trade it and where to keep the coins once you own them.
How to buy Bitcoin
Below are the steps to trade Bitcoin through CFDs at a broker. If you want to own the coin itself, choose “Buy and hold in a wallet”.
This suits you if you want to own the coins themselves, move them where you like and hold them for years. You buy Bitcoin on an exchange, then move it to your own wallet. It takes longer to set up, but the coins are yours and nobody else's.
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Choose the exchange you buy from
CoinbaseCrypto exchange with a simple interface, a good place to start.
KrakenLong-running crypto exchange, with fees that drop as your volume grows.
BybitCrypto exchange with a long list of coins and low trading fees.
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Open an account and confirm your identity
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Put money into the account
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Buy the amount you decided on
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Move the coin to your own wallet
LedgerHardware device that keeps your keys offline, connected by USB or Bluetooth.
TrezorOpen-source hardware device, audited by the community.
MetaMaskBrowser extension and phone app, used mostly on Ethereum.
Trust WalletPhone app that holds several networks in one place.
You are buying the coin itself and you keep it as long as you want. There is no overnight fee and you cannot be liquidated, but the price can fall to any level, and money put here is not covered by bank deposit guarantees.
This suits you if you want to bet on the price move rather than hold the coin. It is faster and runs from the same account as your shares, but you do NOT own Bitcoin: you hold a contract with the broker on the price difference. If the price rises you take the difference; if it falls you pay it. You can also open the position downwards, so you can profit when the price falls.
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Choose the broker you trade with
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- FX de doar 0,15% la Invest
- Pies și acțiuni fracționate
75% din conturile retail pierd bani când tranzacționează CFD-uri cu Trading212.
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Open an account and confirm your identity
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Fund the account
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Open the position, up or down
CFDs are high-risk products. You do not own the coin, you pay an overnight financing fee, and the position can be closed automatically if the price moves against you. Most retail accounts lose money on these products.
Frequently asked questions
Bitcoin (BTC) technical analysis
What the Bitcoin price chart shows: 17 technical signals, including the 200-day moving average, RSI and MACD, combined into a single score from -100 (signals pointing down) to +100 (signals pointing up).
Technical
Slightly negative
Signals: 4 positive and 8 negative, with a strong trend (ADX 43). The heaviest weight comes from the “long-term momentum” family; the “breakouts and reversals” family points the other way.
Price against the moving averages: +0.33
Price vs MA200+9.3% from the average
Price vs MA50+14.9% from the average
MA50 vs MA200Short average below the long one
MACD: 0.00
MACD histogram+524.97
MACD line vs 0-2,831.46
Position in the recent range: -0.33
RSI 1444.4
CCI 20-5
Bollinger %B0.50
Long-term momentum: -1.00
Aroon oscillator-60
Coppock-19.6
12-month momentum-26% over 12 months
Volume and money flow: -1.00
Money flow CMF-0.078
OBV volume, 50dSlope -0.384
Breakouts and reversals: +0.50
Parabolic SARBelow price, rising
Donchian channelInside the 20-day channel
The biggest Bitcoin price moves of the past year
The days when the price jumped far more than usual, and when they happened.
The biggest one-day moves
18 days when the price of Bitcoin moved far more than usual: 8 up, 10 down.
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- jul
- aug
- sep
- oct
- nov
- dec
- jan
- feb
- mar
- apr
- may
- jun
jun 2025jun 2026
- rose sharply
- fell sharply
- quiet month
- Biggest rise in one day+12.2% on 2026-02-06
- Biggest fall in one day-14.0% on 2026-02-05
- The most turbulent monthjan 2026, 4 days
What Bitcoin is and what it is used for
What this coin actually is, where you can check for yourself, and what it is used for in practice.
Bitcoin in brief
Bitcoin is a purely digital form of money that lives on the internet and lets people send value directly to each other without using a bank or payment company in the middle. It was proposed in 2008 and launched in 2009 by an unknown person or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto, and their real identity remains undisclosed. The network is not run by a single company or foundation, but by software that thousands of computers around the world choose to run under the same public rules.
Transactions are grouped into blocks by so-called miners, operators of specialized computers that use electricity to perform difficult calculations; when they succeed, they confirm a new block of transactions and receive newly created coins plus the fees paid by users. The record of all transactions, called the blockchain, is copied across many machines so there is no single place where it can easily be shut down or altered. BTC stands out from many other coins because its rules for issuing new units and validating transactions have changed very little since launch and are enforced automatically by the network rather than by a central administrator, which makes it harder for any one party to rewrite the rules for their own benefit.
This text is written by us, from the coin's own documentation and the financial press. The technical document in the links is written by the coin's team and says what it aims to do.
What it is actually used for
The Bitcoin network is currently used mainly for payments and value transfers that do not rely on a bank or government, including cross border remittances and online payments to merchants that accept it. Some payment processors handle customer payments in Bitcoin and instantly convert them to local currency, so the buyer pays in BTC while the merchant receives dollars or euros. Many individuals also use it as a long term store of value, treating it more like a scarce digital asset than an everyday spending currency.
Within the network, the coin has a specific role: transaction fees are paid in BTC to miners, who secure the ledger and include transactions in blocks. Without this incentive paid in Bitcoin, miners would have little economic reason to spend energy and hardware to keep the system running. Even though in 2025 the network handled far fewer transactions per second than major traditional payment systems, the volume is high enough to show real but still modest usage compared with the total value of the coin at 2 October 2026.
Usefulness is not popularity: a coin being well known does not mean it is used for anything. What the team announces is an announcement, not a fact.
What you would have made
What has already happened, taken out of percentages and put into money.
What you would have made by investing in Bitcoin
$1,000 put in Bitcoin 5 years ago would have grown to $2,111, a return of 16.12% a year. Type your own amount and everything recalculates.
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- a year ago$803a loss of $197, at -19.74% a year
- 3 years ago$3,311of which $2,311 is gain, at 49.04% a year
- 5 years ago$2,111of which $1,111 is gain, at 16.12% a year
These figures have already happened. They are not an estimate for what comes next, and a period starting on another day gives another result. The amounts are before tax and before the platform’s fees.
Bitcoin: biggest drops and how long the recovery took
The falls the price has been through, from a peak to the lowest point, and how long it took to recover.
Biggest drops since 2017
From a peak to the lowest point after it, how long the fall lasted and how long the recovery took.
- Dec 2017 - Dec 2018-83.2%fell for 12 months, then took 23 months to get back to the peak
- Nov 2021 - Nov 2022-76.6%fell for 12 months, then took 15 months to get back to the peak
- Apr 2021 - Jul 2021-53.1%fell for 3 months, then took 3 months to get back to the peak
Measured on each day’s closing price since 2017-08-17, as far back as our data goes. The key data above shows the biggest fall of the last 2 years; this is the whole history.
Bitcoin volatility now, compared with its history
How much it has moved over the last 30 days, set against every stretch of the same length so far.
How turbulent it is now
Volatility over the last 30 days, placed among every 30-day stretch since 2017.
42.0%
calmestusualmost turbulent
Bitcoin is now calmer than usual: the last 30 days have been more turbulent than 24% of all 30-day stretches since 2017.
- Usually (median)56.1%
- In 8 stretches out of 10, between33.1% and 94.0%
- Most turbulent, in April 2020183.7%
Annualised volatility is how far the price would swing over a year if it stayed as turbulent as in the last 30 days. It says how much it moves, not which way.
Bitcoin seasonality: how each month has gone
Which months of the year it has tended to rise in and which to fall in, across all the history we have.
Return month by month
How much it rose or fell on average in each month of the year, over the last 9 years.
- jan
- feb
- mar
- apr
- may
- jun
- jul
- aug
- sep
- oct
- nov
- dec
- rose on average
- fell on average
- Best monthOctober, +18.11%
- Weakest monthAugust, -4.78%
- Rose most often inOctober, 7 years out of 9
An average over 9 years means just 9 observations for each month. It is a curiosity, not a signal: a good month in the past says nothing about what the price will do this year.
Arguments for and against
What can be said in the coin's favour and what against it.
Pros5 arguments
- 📰The network has a long live track record.AIBitcoin has operated since 2009, with only a few early software incidents and no major chain outages reported since 2013, across several market cycles. Bitbo, accessed on {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Development is open and transparent.AIThe main implementation, Bitcoin Core, is free software on GitHub, with hundreds of contributors and a documented public review process rather than a single corporate owner. GitHub Bitcoin Core, accessed on {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Issuance rules are encoded in software.AIThe Bitcoin protocol defines the creation schedule and periodic halvings from the start, and any rule change requires voluntary upgrades by the nodes that validate the network. Bitcoin whitepaper, accessed on {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Corporates hold it on their balance sheet.AISome listed companies, such as Strategy and Tesla, have acquired Bitcoin as a treasury asset and disclosed these holdings in official filings with regulators. SEC MicroStrategy, accessed on {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Regulated investment products exist.AIIn major markets, funds and exchange traded products linked to Bitcoin are listed and explicitly referenced by regulators, and can be accessed via supervised intermediaries. Federal Reserve, accessed on {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
Cons6 arguments
- 📰Few addresses hold a large share.AIOn chain distribution reports show that well under one percent of all visible addresses control a very large fraction of existing coins, leaving Bitcoin sensitive to moves by a small group of large holders. ChainQuery, Bitcoin distribution report, accessed {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Mining power sits in a handful of pools.AIRecent hashrate data indicates that only a few major mining pools together control more than half of total computing power, so coordination issues or failures at these entities can affect security and transaction confirmation on the Bitcoin network. Spark, Bitcoin Hashrate Distribution, accessed {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰Rule changes are complex and political.AIBitcoin consensus upgrades go through the BIP process and miner signalled soft forks that require supermajority support, and past conflicts around SegWit and block size showed that disagreements can lead to chain splits with different outcomes for holders. Bitcoin.org, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals list, accessed {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰History of forks creating rival coins.AIIn 2017 the dispute over network capacity led to a hard fork that created Bitcoin Cash, and such splits can fragment liquidity and create uncertainty for investors holding BTC. Wikipedia, Bitcoin Cash, accessed {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- 📰High and controversial energy footprint.AIThe Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index estimates annual electricity use for the Bitcoin network on the scale of entire countries, which may invite additional regulatory pressure on using and mining Bitcoin. Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, accessed {engine.prices_recent.prices.0.date}
- ⚡It had 18 sharp price moves over the past year.These are the days when the price jumped well beyond its usual swing. Many of them mean the position takes nerve, however good the business is.
Made up your mind? Start investing in Bitcoin
You gain if the price rises above what you paid for the coin, and you lose if it falls. You do not have to buy a whole coin: you can start with a few euros, and the steps take under fifteen minutes.
Bitcoin moves 3.0% on an average day, up or down. That is where both the gain and the risk come from.