Bitcoin price history: every year since 2010
Bitcoin's yearly open, close, high and low since 2010, with the events behind the biggest moves and a note on where every number comes from.
Bitcoin's first reliable price was about $0.0858 in July 2010. It closed 2017 at $13,921, 2021 at $46,355, 2024 at $93,390 and 2025 at $87,517, with falls of 60% or more in 2014, 2018 and 2022. Its highest daily close so far in this data is $124,824, on October 6, 2025.
Bitcoin price by year, 2010 to 2025
| Year | Open | Close | High (daily close) | Low (daily close) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $93,390 | $87,517 | $124,824 | $76,351 | −6.3% |
| 2024 | $42,217 | $93,390 | $106,116 | $39,577 | +121% |
| 2023 | $16,524 | $42,217 | $44,205 | $16,607 | +155% |
| 2022 | $46,355 | $16,524 | $47,560 | $15,758 | −64.4% |
| 2021 | $29,023 | $46,355 | $67,542 | $29,381 | +59.7% |
| 2020 | $7,167 | $29,023 | $29,023 | $4,959 | +305% |
| 2019 | $3,687 | $7,167 | $12,863 | $3,359 | +94.4% |
| 2018 | $13,921 | $3,687 | $17,104 | $3,185 | −73.5% |
| 2017 | $968.97 | $13,921 | $19,641 | $788.31 | +1,337% |
| 2016 | $429.68 | $968.97 | $979.96 | $366.34 | +126% |
| 2015 | $320.66 | $429.68 | $464.62 | $175.64 | +34.0% |
| 2014 | $729.56 | $320.66 | $914.46 | $310.44 | −56.0% |
| 2013 | $13.55 | $729.56 | $1,135 | $13.28 | +5,286% |
| 2012 | $4.71 | $13.55 | $13.76 | $4.26 | +187% |
| 2011 | $0.30 | $4.71 | $29.03 | $0.295 | +1,471% |
| 2010 | $0.0858 | $0.30 | $0.401 | $0.0505 | +249%* |
*2010 starts on July 18, 2010, the first day in the data set, at $0.0858. Daily closing prices at 00:00 UTC from Coin Metrics. Select a year for its monthly prices, chart and events.
Bitcoin price chart since 2010
What the history shows
- Huge long-run rise, with deep falls. Bitcoin went from $0.0858 in July 2010 to $87,517 at the end of 2025. Along the way it lost more than 70% from a peak several times: in 2011, 2014–15, 2018 and 2022.
- Down years happen. Bitcoin closed lower than it opened in 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2025. The worst was 2018 (−73.5%); the best full year was 2013 (+5,286%).
- Gains have shrunk as it grew. Early years saw rises of several thousand percent. As bitcoin got bigger, the swings got smaller in percentage terms, though they're still far larger than for stocks.
- Past prices don't predict future prices. Patterns around halvings or "four-year cycles" are things people notice afterward, with only a handful of examples. Nobody knows where the price goes next.
Key events, year by year
- 2010: May 22: Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first well-known purchase with bitcoin (Bitcoin Pizza Day).
- 2011: February: one bitcoin reaches $1 for the first time.
- 2012: November 28: the first halving at block 210,000 cuts the reward from 50 to 25 BTC per block.
- 2013: March: the Cyprus banking crisis draws attention to bitcoin as money outside the banking system.
- 2014: February: Mt. Gox, then the biggest exchange, halts withdrawals and files for bankruptcy, saying about 850,000 bitcoins are missing (about 200,000 were later found).
- 2015: January: the price sinks to its lowest level of the year in mid-January, around the time the Bitstamp exchange is hacked.
- 2016: July 9: the second halving at block 420,000 cuts the reward from 25 to 12.5 BTC.
- 2017: August 1: Bitcoin Cash splits off over a dispute about block size; on August 24, the SegWit upgrade activates on Bitcoin.
- 2018: The 2017 bubble deflates: bitcoin falls about 73% over the year.
- 2019: A spring and early-summer rally takes the price from under $4,000 to almost $13,000 in late June.
- 2020: March 12: as COVID-19 spreads, markets crash and bitcoin loses about 40% in a day.
- 2021: April 14: Coinbase lists its shares on Nasdaq, near a peak of about $64,000.
- 2022: May: the Terra (LUNA) and UST stablecoin system collapses. June: lender Celsius freezes withdrawals, and other crypto lenders fail.
- 2023: March: Silicon Valley Bank fails, and the USDC stablecoin briefly drops below $1.
- 2024: January 10: the SEC approves the first US spot bitcoin ETFs, which start trading the next day (Bitcoin ETFs explained).
- 2025: March 6: a US executive order creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve from bitcoin the government already holds.
Method and sources
Where the numbers come from. Every price in the main table is Coin Metrics' daily US dollar reference price (its free "PriceUSD" series), taken at 00:00 UTC at the end of each day and averaged across exchanges. Open is the price at the end of December 31 of the year before (the moment the year starts), close is the price at the end of December 31, and high and low are the highest and lowest of those daily closing prices. Intraday spikes are higher and dips lower than daily closes, so we list a second source's intraday high and low separately. We cross-checked every year against at least one other data set (see the cross-check table); where they differ, the main table shows Coin Metrics.
Cross-check: Coin Metrics vs. two other data sets
| Year | Close (Coin Metrics) | Close (StatMuse) | Close (Coinlore) | Largest gap | Intraday high | Intraday low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $87,517 | $87,509 | $87,640 | 0.1% | $126,198 | $74,437 |
| 2024 | $93,390 | $93,429 | $93,647 | 0.3% | $108,268 | $38,522 |
| 2023 | $42,217 | $42,265 | $42,233 | 0.1% | $44,706 | $16,521 |
| 2022 | $16,524 | $16,548 | $16,536 | 0.1% | $48,087 | $15,599 |
| 2021 | $46,355 | $46,306 | $46,266 | 0.2% | $68,790 | $28,723 |
| 2020 | $29,023 | $29,002 | $28,977 | 0.2% | $29,245 | $4,107 |
| 2019 | $7,167 | $7,194 | $7,201 | 0.5% | $13,796 | $3,391 |
| 2018 | $3,687 | $3,743 | $3,746 | 1.6% | $17,712 | $3,191 |
| 2017 | $13,921 | $14,156 | $14,156 | 1.7% | $20,089 | $755.76 |
| 2016 | $968.97 | $963.74 | $963.74 | 0.5% | $979.40 | $354.91 |
| 2015 | $429.68 | $430.57 | $430.57 | 0.2% | $495.56 | $171.51 |
| 2014 | $320.66 | $320.19 | $320.19 | 0.1% | $1,017 | $289.30 |
| 2013 | $729.56 | $754.01 | $754.01 | 3.4% | $1,156 | $11.59 |
| 2012 | $13.55 | $13.53 | — | 0.1% | $17.76 | $3.77 |
| 2011 | $4.71 | $4.61 | — | 2.2% | $35.88 | $0.25 |
| 2010 | $0.30 | $0.30 | — | 0.0% | $0.46 | $0.05 |
StatMuse and Coinlore figures copied on November 4, 2026. Intraday high and low are StatMuse's. Gaps of a few percent are normal: sources pick a different moment as the "close," average different exchanges, and before 2014 relied mostly on one exchange, Mt. Gox, whose prices weren't always representative.
This page covers full calendar years only. For the live price, see the Bitcoin price today. To see what an amount invested on any past date would be worth now, try the Bitcoin investment calculator.
Frequently asked questions
What was the price of bitcoin at the end of 2024?
About $93,390 at 00:00 UTC on January 1, 2025, according to Coin Metrics' daily closing price. Other sources put it within about half a percent of that.
What is bitcoin's highest price ever?
Its highest daily close in the data is $124,824 on October 6, 2025. The highest intraday trade was about $126,000 the same day. A later record would show on the live price page.
What was bitcoin's first price?
Bitcoin had no market price in 2009. The first reliable daily prices start in July 2010, at about 9 cents. In May 2010, 10,000 BTC paid for two pizzas, worth roughly $41 at the time.
How much did bitcoin fall in its worst years?
It closed 2014 down 56.0%, 2018 down 73.5% and 2022 down 64.4%. Peak-to-low falls within a cycle were larger, often more than 75%.
Why do different websites show different historical prices?
Each data provider averages different exchanges and uses a different time as the daily close (00:00 UTC, the US close, or the last trade). Before 2014, most trading was on Mt. Gox, whose prices drifted from other exchanges. Differences of 1–3% for a given day are normal.
Where to next
Sources
- Coin Metrics free daily network data, PriceUSD (GitHub archive, CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Bitcoin price by year: open, high, low, close (StatMuse Money)
- Bitcoin historical data and yearly returns (Coinlore)
- Controlled supply and halvings (Bitcoin Wiki)
- SEC statement on spot bitcoin ETPs (January 10, 2024)
Written for beginners and checked against the sources listed. Last reviewed November 4, 2026. This page is educational and is not financial, tax or legal advice. How we write and check pages.