The Bitcoin price is $69,052.52, a change of -0.02% over the past 24 hours as of 12:59 p.m. The recent price action in Bitcoin left the tokens market capitalization at $1.36T. So far this year, Bitcoin has a change of 63.28%. 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