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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
What is the price of bitcoin today?As of 8 a.m. ET, the price of bitcoin, or 1 BTC, was $65,447.01. The crypto’s highest intraday price in the past year was $73,750.07 on March 14, 2024.Bitcoin price chartThe above chart pulls data as of 8 a.m. ET daily. It doesn’t display intraday highs or lows.Bitcoin price history*The return comparisons are as of 8 a.m. ET.Bitcoin’s all-time high was on March 14, 2024, trading at $73,750.07 per bitcoin. The lowest intraday price that the crypto traded in the past year was $26,111.46 on Sep. 27, 2023. The original crypto is up by 147% year over year.BTC had very humble beginnings when it was launched in January 2009. Since then, the world’s first cryptocurrency has completely shifted global financial markets and amassed a global market capitalization of $1.29 trillion.The crypto is also becoming a popular alternative to government-backed fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, which tend to lose value over time due to inflation.What is bitcoin?Bitcoin launched the world’s first blockchain-based network to make financial transactions. It’s powered by millions of global users. Anyone with internet access can make financial transactions without banks or government intermediaries.Every transaction on the blockchain is validated by miners. Miners use high-powered computers to solve complex math problems and create new blocks in the chain. They’re paid with newly created BTC for their work maintaining the network.In the years since its launch, thousands of cryptocurrencies have tried to recreate bitcoin’s success. While some have grown rapidly, none
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