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Bitcoin

Bitcoin

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BTC

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$41,943.12

-1.34%

$41,684.05

24H Price

$43,395.81

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About Bitcoin

The Bitcoin price is $41,943.12, a change of -1.34% over the past 24 hours as of 10:33 p.m. The recent price action in Bitcoin left the tokens market capitalization at $820,858,391,301.77. So far this year, Bitcoin has a change of 153.47%. Bitcoin is classified as a Currency under CoinDesks Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS).

Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency – a type of digital asset that uses public-key cryptography to record, sign and send transactions over the Bitcoin blockchain – all done without the oversight of a central authority.

The Bitcoin network (with an upper-case “B”) was launched in January 2009 by an anonymous computer programmer or group of programmers under the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto.” The network is a peer-to-peer electronic payment system that uses a cryptocurrency called bitcoin (lower case “b”) to transfer value over the internet or act as a store of value like gold and silver.

Each bitcoin is made up of 100 million satoshis (the smallest units of bitcoin), making individual bitcoin divisible up to eight decimal places. That means anyone can purchase a fraction of a bitcoin with as little as one U.S. dollar.