Cryptocurrency profile · BTC
Bitcoin
$77,171.00 USD
- Market cap rank
- 1
- Market cap
- 1,551,368,697,884
- Circulating supply
- 20,083,531
- Max supply
- 21,000,000
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.
- Bitcoin was created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity remains unknown.
- Bitcoin has a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, making it a deflationary digital asset.
- Bitcoin's mining reward halves approximately every four years in an event known as the halving.
- The SEC approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, opening Bitcoin to traditional finance.
- Ordinals, launched in January 2023, enable NFT-like functionality directly on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- Launch date
- Jan. 3, 2009
- Consensus
- proof-of-work
- Token standard
- native
- Algorithm
- SHA-256
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| Exchange | Price | Payment | |
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| Kraken Best rate CEX · 2m · Bank transfer · SWIFT Transfer · Bank Frick | 77,150.60 USD | Bank transfer · SWIFT Transfer · Bank Frick Fee: 3.00 USD 1-5 business days Limits: 4.00 – — USD Official source | Buy Buy here |
| Kraken CEX · 2m · Bank transfer · SWIFT Transfer · Customers Bank | 77,150.60 USD | Bank transfer · SWIFT Transfer · Customers Bank Fee: 0.00% + 0.00 USD 1-3 business days Limits: 100.00 – — USD Official source | Buy Buy here |
| CEX.IO CEX · 2m · No verified funding route for this currency | 77,171.80 USD | No verified funding route for this currency | Buy Buy here |
| Binance CEX · 2m · Funding terms not covered yet | 77,181.28 USD | Funding terms not covered yet | Buy Buy here |
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