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View the historical Bitcoin price by day, week, month or year. The table shows opening and closing price, daily trading volume and percentage price change compared to the previous period.

Since the launch of bitcoin in January 2009, its price has always been highly volatile. This is also reflected in the historical bitcoin price overview above.

A few fun facts about the price over the years:

2009: Since its introduction in 2009, the value of bitcoin has increased enormously.

2010: In 2010 an American programmer still bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. We hope they were tasty pizzas, because those 10,000 bitcoins would be worth hundreds of millions of euros today.

2013: Until February 2013, the cryptocurrency price had never exceeded 25 euros. But by the end of 2013 it had climbed above 1,000 euros! This was partly driven by the financial crisis in Cyprus that year.

2014: Disaster struck in early 2014. The market was hit hard by the bankruptcy of the first and by far largest bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt. Gox.

Still, 2014 also brought good news, albeit on a local level. Arnhem started pioneering. In the capital of Gelderland, many shop windows showed stickers reading: We accept Bitcoin. An important milestone in the acceptance of bitcoin as a means of payment.

2015: A year later, Bitstamp, another major exchange, suffered a large hack. A total of 19,000 bitcoins were stolen. Market sentiment turned negative and the price fell back to 180 euros.

2017: By 2017, however, bitcoin had already fought its way back to a value of 1,000 euros. In the second half of that year things suddenly accelerated: amid massive media attention, the price reached its provisional all time high of 17,000 euros.

2018: The year started well, but it soon became clear that 2018 would not be a year of celebration for the price. The value eventually fell to 2,862 euros.

2019: In 2019 the recovery began. On 26 June 2019, bitcoin reached its highest point of the year at more than 12,000 euros.

2020: After that, the price started falling again, but 12 March 2020 was an especially dark day for bitcoin. Financial markets around the world collapsed, and the bitcoin price was cut in half. The price reached a low of 3,600 euros.

In hindsight, that was the best moment to buy bitcoin. Bitcoin recovered quickly, and in August the price broke through the magical 10,000 euro mark.

This marked the start of a new bull run. More and more institutional investors started investing in bitcoin, and around Christmas bitcoin broke its previous record of 17,000 euros.

2021: That was only the beginning, because on 13 March 2021 bitcoin broke through the new psychological barrier of no less than 50,000 euros.

On 14 April 2021 cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went public on the US stock market. That day bitcoin reached a provisional peak of 54,000 euros.

Then in May, China took strict action against bitcoin mining. Both the hashrate and the bitcoin price dropped sharply, with the price falling to 26,700 euros.

In July, however, the bullish trend continued, and in November 2021 the price reached its highest level ever: 57,225 euros.

At the end of 2021 the Federal Reserve announced it would start tapering its bond purchases, which would slowly withdraw liquidity from the financial markets. The prospect of less liquidity sent the bitcoin price into decline.

2022: can rightly be called the "bitcoin winter". Some notable events during the year include the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD and the swift downfall of FTX. By the end of December the price hit a low of 15,746 euros.

2023: In early 2023 bitcoin started showing signs of recovery and by April the price was back above 27,000 euros. The price ended the year around 40,000 euros.

2024: 10 January 2024 marks a historic moment for bitcoin. On this day 11 bitcoin spot ETFs were approved. Suddenly an enormous amount of capital had access to bitcoin.

In the first month after launch, more than $4 billion in capital flowed into these new Bitcoin funds. In March 2024, bitcoin reached a new all-time high of around 66,000 euros. For the first time, the previous peak from 2021 was surpassed.

On 6 November 2024 Trump was elected president of the US. Why is that so important? Because Trump positioned himself as crypto-friendly during his campaign. So, not entirely unexpectedly, we saw a bitcoin rally right after.

On 5 December 2024 the magical $100,000 mark was broken, and on 17 December the €100,000 mark was broken too.

2025: Despite the pro-Bitcoin administration, the recognition of Bitcoin as a strategic reserve and Trump's literal announcement of turning the US into a 'Bitcoin superpower', a few grains of sand end up in the engine. Not least because many people decide to sell at the psychological 100K mark. But also because the bitcoin price faces some macro-economic headwinds following the tariff announcement. Markets don't like uncertainty, and by April 2025 the price has corrected to ~72,000 euros.

After a brief dip in early April 2025, Bitcoin recovered following the swearing-in of the new SEC chair. Paul Atkins, a well-known crypto advocate, was confirmed by the Senate on 9 April and officially sworn in on 21 April 2025, succeeding Gary Gensler.

Between April and August 2025 we then saw a significant and sustained rally, with a peak of over $124,000 in August. Mainly driven by a combination of political shifts in the US and strong institutional demand.

In October 2025 bitcoin reaches a provisional peak of ~$126,000 (~€107,000).

On 10 October the bitcoin price went through an enormously sharp drop of about $12,000 within a single trading day. The move triggered billions of dollars in liquidations on derivatives markets. This event laid the groundwork for a long-running correction. Within a few weeks bitcoin was trading more than 30% below its peak of nearly $126,000.

2026: This bearish period continued into early 2026. The price dropped considerably in the first quarter of 2026, but the worst now seems to be behind us. In April and early May we are seeing clear signs of recovery. Analysts have yet to agree on how the rest of the year will play out.

The bitcoin price is still characterised by big fluctuations. This is called price volatility. A frequently asked question is why the price rises and falls so sharply. To understand this, it helps to compare the total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies with other financial markets.

You calculate bitcoin's market cap by multiplying the number of bitcoins by the current price. In 2021, bitcoin broke through a magic threshold for the first time: a total market value of more than 1 trillion euros. That's a 1 with 12 zeros, and it sounds like an enormous amount. But at that moment Apple's market value was still twice as large as bitcoin's. And the entire US stock market is many times bigger still.

Compared to other markets, the crypto market is therefore still very small. That means relatively little capital is needed to move the price. On top of that, many day traders are active. The mood of the day, but also the news of the day, can already cause considerable swings.

Want to compare the total value of the crypto market with the total stock market? Then it looks roughly like the image below. The blue blocks represent the stock market, the green blocks the crypto market.