How to read the Bitcoin price chart
The spot price of Bitcoin in USD — from intraday moves to the full history. The price at the top runs live, and the chart can switch between ranges from 24 hours to maximum. Moving averages (MA50, MA200 and the 200-week MA) help separate short-term noise from the long-term trend: price above the MA200 is usually read as a bull market, MA50/MA200 crosses as a trend change, and the 200W MA has historically acted as the bear-market floor.
Data sources: Yahoo Finance, Binance and Coinbase Exchange. Volume is in BTC per chart interval. Prices of other cryptocurrencies live in the top 100 ranking on the crypto prices page.
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the world's first and largest cryptocurrency. It was introduced in October 2008 by an anonymous author (or group) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the famous whitepaper, and the network launched in January 2009 with the mining of the first, so-called genesis block. Bitcoin runs on a decentralized peer-to-peer network: miners verify transactions using the proof-of-work mechanism and record them in a public ledger — the blockchain. No central authority issues or controls it.
Bitcoin's key property is its fixed supply: no more than 21 million coins will ever exist. New BTC enters circulation as a reward to miners for found blocks, and this reward halves every 210,000 blocks (roughly once every four years) — the so-called halving. After the April 2024 halving the reward is 3.125 BTC per block, and the next halving falls roughly in spring 2028. It is precisely this declining issuance rate that underpins Bitcoin's story as "digital gold".
Today, alongside retail investors, large institutions follow the Bitcoin price too — since January 2024, spot Bitcoin ETFs holding hundreds of thousands of BTC have traded in the US. The price closely tracks the macro environment (Fed rates, inflation) as well as the on-chain metrics you'll find in this terminal.