Here are some key points about Bitcoin ¹ ²:
- Current price: $70,775.62
- Market cap: $1.4 trillion
- 24-hour trading volume: $29.4 billion
- Circulating supply: 19,709,100 BTC
- All-time high: $64,863.10 (April 14, 2021)
- Block reward: 6.25 BTC (halved every 210,000 blocks, or approximately four years)
- Total supply is limited by software to 21 million
- Creator is unknown, under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto
- Launched in January 2009
- First cryptocurrency to be used in practice