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Price · 3-month trendBTC / USD
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Snapshot Live signals
Key Market Insights
A plain-language read of the live indicators below — these describe current price behavior, not a forecast.
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01Price action Chart · momentum · technicals
Price Chart
RSI · MACD · EMA · SMA · Bollinger · Volume — powered by TradingView
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Snapshot
live · TradingView
Technical Gauge
MAs + oscillators
Aggregated buy/sell rating across moving averages and oscillators. A momentum summary — not a recommendation.
Signals · rule-based read
Market Intelligence
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A transparent, rule-based read of standard technical indicators computed from up to 365 daily closes. These describe current price behavior — they are not forecasts.
RSI (14)
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AI price forecasts: we do not publish fabricated price predictions or confidence scores. The statistical range below is derived from realized volatility, not a prediction.
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Indicators · up to 365d
Technical Analysis
Moving averages, support and resistance levels computed from daily closing prices — a snapshot of current structure, not a forecast.
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Track record · ATH · ATL · ROI
Historical Performance
All-time high and low with trailing returns across multiple time windows.
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Perpetual futures · Hyperliquid
Bitcoin Derivatives
Live perpetual-swap metrics from the Hyperliquid order book. Funding is the periodic payment between longs and shorts: positive means longs pay shorts (crowded longs), negative means shorts pay longs. Open interest is the total value of outstanding contracts.
Funding (1h)
+0.0005%
Funding (APR)
+4.0%
Open interest
$1.93B
Perp 24h volume
$1.18B
Mark price
$63,936.00
Premium vs oracle
-0.048%
Open interest (BTC)
30,167
Positioning bias
Balanced
Trader positioning · Binance · all open positions
All accountsretail sentiment
61.7%38.3%
Top tradersby position size
54.1%45.9%
Taker buy/sell volume ratio (1h): 0.63 — aggressive selling leads.
Long Short
Sources: Hyperliquid perpetuals (funding, OI, mark) · Binance futures (positioning ratios) · funding shown per hour and annualized. Derivatives data is for informational purposes only and is not a recommendation to trade leveraged products.
Prediction markets · Polymarket
What the markets price for Bitcoin
Implied probabilities from live Polymarket prediction markets that mention Bitcoin. Each percentage is the market-priced chance of the outcome resolving Yes, derived from real-money order books — a crowd forecast, not ours.
Source: Polymarket · probabilities reflect current market prices and change continuously. Shown for context only — not a forecast, endorsement or financial advice.
02Market data Statistics · supply · converter
Fundamentals · live
Market Statistics
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Deeper market data Premium feed
Holder count, liquidity depth and market dominance require a premium data feed — not available from the free data source.
Tokenomics · supply
Supply Structure
CoinPaprika supply data
How much BTC is in circulation versus the total and maximum that can ever exist.
Bitcoin has a fixed maximum of 21,000,000 BTC — roughly 95.4% is circulating today.
95.4%
Circulating · 20,043,646 BTC
Not yet issued · 956,354 BTC
Circulating
20,043,646
Total Supply
20,043,646
Max Supply
21,000,000
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95.4%
Circulating, total and maximum supply are sourced from CoinPaprika. “Non-circulating” covers issued tokens not in active circulation (e.g. locked, staked, treasury or reserve); “not yet issued” is the remaining gap to maximum supply.
Auto-generated · descriptive
Automated Observations
derived from live data
Strengths · Tailwinds
Risks · Headwinds
Observations are generated mechanically from current market data (e.g. liquidity ratio, distance from ATH, volatility). They are descriptive, not advice.
Benchmark · vs BTC & ETH
Compare vs. Bitcoin & Ethereum
Bitcoin side by side with the two largest crypto assets — live price, 24-hour move, market cap and volume.
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On-chain · premium feed
On-Chain Analytics
On-chain metrics Premium feed
Active addresses, whale transactions, exchange flows and holder distribution require an on-chain data provider such as Glassnode, Santiment or Arkham. These appear here once a data feed is connected.
Sentiment · premium feed
Social Sentiment
Sentiment signals Premium feed
Social sentiment (Reddit / X), news-impact scoring and community-growth metrics require a sentiment data provider such as Santiment or LunarCrush. Not available on the free tier.
Live conversion · BTC/USD
Bitcoin price converter
updates with the live price
A quick reference for converting Bitcoin to US dollars and back. Every figure recalculates from the live BTC price above — no fixed or fabricated rates. For custom amounts and other currencies, use the full crypto converter.
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Conversions are indicative, based on the latest price from CoinPaprika, and exclude exchange fees and spreads.
Run the numbers on Bitcoin with our free, browser-based calculators — from converting BTC to sizing a position and modelling long-term returns. No account, and nothing leaves your browser.
How Bitcoin sits against the broader market. The strip and board below track major assets in real time, so you can read BTC in context rather than in isolation.
Live quotes for major cryptocurrencies, supplied by TradingView. Listed for context only — not a recommendation to buy or sell any asset.
Keep exploring · market-wide
Explore the market
Keep researching beyond Bitcoin — track the wider market, compare assets and dig into the categories Bitcoin belongs to.
Assets that share a category or ecosystem with Bitcoin — compare fundamentals side by side.
Each card shows its 7-day price correlation with Bitcoin — 1.00 = moved identically, 0 = independent, negative = inverse. Computed from stored price history.
The live data below is updated continuously from public market sources. These figures are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial advice.
Key facts
Market capitalization rank: #1
Circulating supply: 20,042,953 BTC
Maximum supply: 21,000,000 BTC
All-time high: $126,080.00 (reached October 6, 2025)
Both Eyes
The bull case and the bear case for Bitcoin
The Bear Case
Risks & what could go wrong
It is still a young, highly volatile asset whose value rests on adoption and sentiment rather than cash flows.
Peak-to-trough drawdowns have repeatedly exceeded 70%, so position sizing and time horizon matter a great deal.
It generates no earnings, yield or dividends — there is no intrinsic cash flow to anchor a valuation.
Regulation, taxation and custody rules are still evolving and differ sharply between countries.
Ownership is relatively concentrated, and periodic energy-use criticism can weigh on sentiment.
The Bull Case
Opportunity & what could go right
Bitcoin is the largest, longest-running and most liquid crypto network — the asset most often framed as “digital gold.”
Supply is capped at 21 million coins and new issuance halves roughly every four years, making it credibly scarce and disinflationary by design.
It is the most secure and most liquid digital asset, with the longest continuous operating track record in the space.
US-listed spot ETFs (such as IBIT) and corporate treasuries have widened institutional access since 2024.
A growing set of allocators treat it as a non-sovereign, macro hedge that is not tied to any single government or central bank.
The Both Eyes View weighs the bear case and the bull case. Not financial advice.
Fundamentals · overview
What is Bitcoin?
project fundamentals
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.
Developer and community figures are sourced from CoinPaprika and update periodically.
Source: CoinPaprika project metadata. Descriptions are provided by the projects and aggregated by CoinPaprika; they are reproduced here for reference and are not endorsements.
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Fresh market analysis and explainers from the Fox Periodical editorial team.
Read this page like an analyst would — pair the data above with the concepts behind it. Here is a simple, repeatable way to research Bitcoin, with the terms and guides that explain each step.
Check the market profile
Start with rank, market cap and 24-hour volume in the overview and statistics. A healthy volume-to-market-cap ratio signals liquidity you can actually trade into.
Read the supply & tokenomics
See how much BTC circulates versus the maximum in the supply structure, and weigh inflation and dilution before price.
Straight answers on Bitcoin's fundamentals, supply, history, and where the data on this page comes from.
Q01What is Bitcoin (BTC)?
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.
Q02What is Bitcoin's market cap rank?
Bitcoin is ranked #1 by market capitalization among all cryptocurrencies tracked, based on the latest market data shown on this page.
Q03When was Bitcoin created?
Bitcoin's genesis (its first block / launch) is dated January 3, 2009 according to public blockchain records.
Q04What hashing algorithm does Bitcoin use?
Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm.
Q05What is the maximum supply of BTC?
Bitcoin has a maximum supply of 21,000,000 BTC. Once that cap is reached, no new BTC can be created.
Q06How many BTC are in circulation?
Approximately 20,043,646 BTC are currently in circulation, per the latest market data.
Q07What is the all-time high price of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin's all-time high price recorded in our data is $126,080.00, reached on October 6, 2025.
Q08What is the all-time low price of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin's all-time low price recorded in our data is $67.81, reached on July 6, 2013.
Q09What category does Bitcoin belong to?
CoinPaprika classifies Bitcoin under: Smart Contract Platform, Layer 1 (L1), FTX Holdings, Proof of Work (PoW), Bitcoin Ecosystem.
Q10Where can I track the Bitcoin price?
You can track the live Bitcoin (BTC) price, market cap, trading volume, interactive charts and rule-based technical indicators on this page. Figures update continuously from public market data.
Q11Is Bitcoin a good investment?
We don't provide financial advice or price predictions. This page presents factual market data and transparent, rule-based technical indicators for educational purposes only. Always do your own research and consider your risk tolerance before investing in any cryptocurrency.
Market data provided by CoinPaprika; sentiment index by alternative.me; charts & widgets by TradingView. Figures may be delayed.
Technical indicators are computed from historical prices and are for educational purposes only.
Nothing on this page is financial advice — always do your own research.
