Year

Approx. BTC price shown

What happened

2009

<$0.01

Bitcoin network launched; the Genesis Block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.

2010

~$0.39

Bitcoin began developing a real market price. The famous Bitcoin Pizza Day happened when 10,000 BTC were used to buy two pizzas.

2013

~$13

Bitcoin experienced one of its first major mainstream price surges.

2017

~$13,880

The huge 2017 bull market brought Bitcoin into mainstream attention.

2021

~$46,300

Bitcoin reached major institutional adoption and eventually hit about $67,549 in November 2021.

2024

~$93,700

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