Bitcoin: Price, Predictions, News and Guides
The live BTC price, predictions, news and plain guides, from buying your first bitcoin to ETFs, mining and the halving.
7 days
- 7-day change
- −3.29%
- Market cap
- $1.50T
- 24h volume
- $34.46B
- 24h range
- $73,709.00 – $75,864.00
- Circulating supply
- 20.11M BTC
- All-time high
- $126,080.00 (Oct 2025)
Updated Nov 9, 18:36 UTC · Data: CoinGecko · Live Bitcoin price chart and history · Bitcoin price prediction
Start here: Bitcoin guides
What Is Bitcoin?
What Bitcoin is, how it works and who created it.
How to Buy Bitcoin Safely
Opening an account and choosing your first way to buy bitcoin.Best Bitcoin Wallets
Hardware, web and mobile wallets compared for safety and ease of use.
Bitcoin Halving Dates
Every halving so far, the next one, and what the price did after each.What Is Bitcoin Mining?
How miners secure the network and earn new bitcoin.What Is Bitcoin Backed By?
Why code, energy and scarcity stand behind Bitcoin instead of gold.
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The Complete Bitcoin Timeline: Major Events and Milestones
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Bitcoin price and predictions
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Live BTC price, charts from one day to all time, and yearly history. - Bitcoin price prediction
Key price levels and what analysts and models expect next. - Bitcoin price prediction 2040
Long-range scenarios and the assumptions behind them.
Predictions are scenarios, not promises. The price of Bitcoin can fall as well as rise, and nothing on this page is investment advice.
Bitcoin at a glance
Bitcoin is digital money that people can send to each other over the internet without a bank in the middle. It launched in January 2009 as the first decentralized cryptocurrency. A network of computers around the world keeps a shared record of every payment, called the blockchain, and miners add a new block to it about every 10 minutes.
No more than 21 million bitcoin will ever exist. The reward miners earn for each block halves every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years, so new supply keeps shrinking. That fixed limit is one reason people call Bitcoin digital gold.
This hub brings our Bitcoin coverage together: news and price analysis, the live price, our price predictions, and plain guides on how Bitcoin works and how to buy and store it safely.
| Ticker | BTC |
|---|---|
| Launched | January 2009 |
| Created by | Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudonym; identity unknown) |
| Supply | No more than 21 million BTC |
| Consensus | Proof of work (SHA-256 mining) |
| Block time | About 10 minutes |
| Block reward | 3.125 BTC since the April 2024 halving |
| Next halving | Expected in 2028, at block 1,050,000 |
| Smallest unit | 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC |
| US spot ETFs | Trading since January 2024 |
Key dates
- Oct 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the Bitcoin white paper on a cryptography mailing list.
- Jan 2009 The first block, the genesis block, is mined and the network starts.
- May 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, an early real-world purchase.
- Nov 2012 The first halving cuts the block reward from 50 to 25 BTC.
- Aug 2017 Bitcoin Cash splits off as a separate coin, and SegWit activates three weeks later.
- Jan 2024 The SEC approves the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs. They start trading the next day.
- Apr 2024 The fourth halving cuts the reward to 3.125 BTC.
- Mar 2025 A US executive order sets up a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, funded with forfeited bitcoin.
- 2028 The fifth halving is expected, cutting the reward to 1.5625 BTC.
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Bitcoin questions
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a digital currency that runs on a public network instead of a bank. Anyone can send it to anyone else online, and every payment is recorded on a shared ledger called the blockchain. No company or government runs it, and no more than 21 million bitcoin will ever exist. Our full guide explains how it works.
How do I buy Bitcoin safely?
Use a regulated exchange or broker that serves your country, turn on two-factor authentication, and start with a small test purchase. If you plan to hold for a long time, move your bitcoin to a wallet you control and keep its recovery phrase offline. Our beginner's guide walks through each step.
What is the Bitcoin halving?
Every 210,000 blocks, about every four years, the reward miners get for a new block is cut in half. The last halving, in April 2024, cut it from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, and the next is expected in 2028. Our halving dates page lists every past and expected halving.
Where can I check the Bitcoin price today?
Our live Bitcoin price page shows the BTC price in US dollars and four other currencies, with charts from one day to the full history, market cap and trading volume. It updates on its own. The box at the top of this page shows the same live data in short form.
Can I buy Bitcoin through an ETF?
Yes. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have traded in the United States since January 2024. They hold bitcoin and trade like shares in a normal brokerage account, so you can follow the price without managing a wallet yourself. Like other funds, they charge a yearly fee.
This page is kept up to date by the UseTheBitcoin editorial team and reviewed every quarter. Last reviewed: October 2026. How we work: editorial policy.
