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$75,890

Down-$1,120.1968 (-1.46%)

Updated Sep 16, 2026, 9:55 AM

Market cap
$1.52T
Market cap rank
#1
24h volume
$39.06B
Fully diluted value
$1.52T

Price performance

BTC price history

Seven-day range · 168 approximate observations

Bitcoin moved from $79,648.447 to $75,698.679 over the selected seven-day window, a decline of 4.96%.

Latest observation
$75,698.679
Period change
-4.96%
Period low
$75,383.705
Period high
$79,648.447
USD price
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Latest 24 approximate price observations for Bitcoin
Time (UTC)Price
Sep 16, 2026, 9:55 AM$75,698.679
Sep 16, 2026, 8:54 AM$75,963.644
Sep 16, 2026, 7:54 AM$75,915.818
Sep 16, 2026, 6:53 AM$75,814.08
Sep 16, 2026, 5:53 AM$75,772.472
Sep 16, 2026, 4:53 AM$75,831.866
Sep 16, 2026, 3:52 AM$75,446.753
Sep 16, 2026, 2:52 AM$75,725.343
Sep 16, 2026, 1:52 AM$75,590.245
Sep 16, 2026, 12:51 AM$75,645.585
Sep 15, 2026, 11:51 PM$75,383.705
Sep 15, 2026, 10:51 PM$75,886.402
Sep 15, 2026, 9:50 PM$76,112.815
Sep 15, 2026, 8:50 PM$75,965.387
Sep 15, 2026, 7:50 PM$76,912.761
Sep 15, 2026, 6:49 PM$76,348.089
Sep 15, 2026, 5:49 PM$76,487.74
Sep 15, 2026, 4:48 PM$75,903.011
Sep 15, 2026, 3:48 PM$76,548.366
Sep 15, 2026, 2:48 PM$76,930.763
Sep 15, 2026, 1:47 PM$76,908.567
Sep 15, 2026, 12:47 PM$77,022.845
Sep 15, 2026, 11:47 AM$76,965.811
Sep 15, 2026, 10:46 AM$76,930.037

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
$77,163
24h low
$75,038
Seven-day change
-4.60%
30-day change
+19.20%

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

-39.81% from ATH · Oct 6, 2025

All-time low
$67.81

+111816.70% from ATL · Jul 5, 2013

24h market-cap change
-$22.53B

-1.46%

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.