BTC Price Live Data
The live Bitcoin price today is $20,247.25 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $32,702,420,170 USD. We update our BTC to USD price in real-time. Bitcoin is up 1.39% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #1, with a live market cap of $391,066,612,737 USD. It ha... more
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BTC Price Live Data
The live Bitcoin price today is $20,247.25 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $32,702,420,170 USD. We update our BTC to USD price in real-time. Bitcoin is up 1.39% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #1, with a live market cap of $391,066,612,737 USD. It has a circulating supply of 19,314,550 BTC coins and a max. supply of 21,000,000 BTC coins.
If you would like to know where to buy Bitcoin at the current rate, the top cryptocurrency exchanges for trading in Bitcoin stock are currently Binance, OKX, Deepcoin, Bybit, and BTCEX. You can find others listed on our crypto exchanges page.
What Is Bitcoin (BTC)?
Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency originally described in a 2008 whitepaper by a person, or group of people, using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. It was launched soon after, in January 2009.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer online currency, meaning that all transactions happen directly between equal, independent network participants, without the need for any intermediary to permit or facilitate them. Bitcoin was created, according to Nakamoto’s own words, to allow “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
Some concepts for a similar type of a decentralized electronic currency precede BTC, but Bitcoin holds the distinction of being the first-ever cryptocurrency to come into actual use