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$76,199

Up+$511.64 (+0.61%)

Updated Sep 17, 2026, 1:15 AM

Market cap
$1.53T
Market cap rank
#1
24h volume
$30.88B
Fully diluted value
$1.53T

Price performance

BTC price history

Seven-day range · 168 approximate observations

Bitcoin moved from $78,149.713 to $76,146.812 over the selected seven-day window, a decline of 2.56%.

Latest observation
$76,146.812
Period change
-2.56%
Period low
$75,383.705
Period high
$79,208.674
USD price
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Latest 24 approximate price observations for Bitcoin
Time (UTC)Price
Sep 17, 2026, 1:15 AM$76,146.812
Sep 17, 2026, 12:14 AM$75,622.804
Sep 16, 2026, 11:14 PM$75,935.578
Sep 16, 2026, 10:13 PM$76,117.436
Sep 16, 2026, 9:13 PM$76,006.352
Sep 16, 2026, 8:13 PM$75,761.236
Sep 16, 2026, 7:12 PM$75,709.456
Sep 16, 2026, 6:12 PM$75,714.008
Sep 16, 2026, 5:12 PM$75,746.916
Sep 16, 2026, 4:11 PM$75,628.253
Sep 16, 2026, 3:11 PM$75,608.328
Sep 16, 2026, 2:11 PM$75,900.634
Sep 16, 2026, 1:10 PM$76,193.424
Sep 16, 2026, 12:10 PM$75,892.183
Sep 16, 2026, 11:10 AM$75,930.768
Sep 16, 2026, 10:09 AM$75,674.966
Sep 16, 2026, 9:09 AM$75,698.679
Sep 16, 2026, 8:08 AM$75,963.644
Sep 16, 2026, 7:08 AM$75,915.818
Sep 16, 2026, 6:08 AM$75,814.08
Sep 16, 2026, 5:07 AM$75,772.472
Sep 16, 2026, 4:07 AM$75,831.866
Sep 16, 2026, 3:07 AM$75,446.753
Sep 16, 2026, 2:06 AM$75,725.343

Observation times are inferred because the stored sparkline contains prices without timestamps.

Market performance

Recent price movement from the current market-data snapshot.

24h high
$76,433
24h low
$75,161
Seven-day change
-2.50%
30-day change
+18.30%

Supply

Reported token availability across the network.

Circulating supply
20.09M BTC
Total supply
20.09M BTC
Maximum supply
21M BTC

Historical range

Historical price extremes and current distance from those levels.

All-time high
$126,080

-39.56% from ATH · Oct 6, 2025

All-time low
$67.81

+112272.52% from ATL · Jul 5, 2013

24h market-cap change
$10.41B

+0.68%

About Bitcoin

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.