The Bitcoin (BTC) price again reached an all-time high in 2025, as values exceeded over 95,508.31 USD on November 16, 2025. Price hikes in early 2025 were connected to the approval of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, while previous hikes in 2021 were due to events involving Tesla and Coinbase, respectively. Tesla's announcement in March 2021 that it had acquired 1.5 billion U.S. dollars' worth of the digital coin, for example, as well as the IPO of the U.S.'s biggest crypto exchange, fueled mass interest. The market was noticeably different by the end of 2022, however, after another crypto exchange, FTX, filed for bankruptcy.Is the world running out of Bitcoin?Unlike fiat currency like the U.S. dollar - as the Federal Reserve can simply decide to print more banknotes - Bitcoin's supply is finite: BTC has a maximum supply embedded in its design, of which roughly 89 percent had been reached in April 2021. It is believed that Bitcoin will run out by 2040, despite more powerful mining equipment. This is because mining becomes exponentially more difficult and power-hungry every four years, a part of Bitcoin's original design. Because of this, a Bitcoin mining transaction could equal the energy consumption of a small country in 2021.Bitcoin's price outlook: a potential bubble?Cryptocurrencies have few metrics available that allow for forecasting, if only because it is rumored that only a few cryptocurrency holders own a large portion of the available supply. These large holders - referred to as 'whales'-are' said to make up two percent of anonymous ownership accounts, while owning roughly 92 percent of BTC. On top of this, most people who use cryptocurrency-related services worldwide are retail clients rather than institutional investors. This means outlooks on whether Bitcoin prices will fall or grow are difficult to measure, as movements from one large whale are already having a significant impact on this market.

In March 2024 Bitcoin BTC reached a new all-time high with prices exceeding 73000 USD marking a milestone for the cryptocurrency market This surge was due to the approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds ETFs in the United States allowing investors to access Bitcoin without directly holding it This development increased Bitcoin’s credibility and brought fresh demand from institutional investors echoing previous price surges in 2021 when Tesla announced its 15 billion investment in Bitcoin and Coinbase was listed on the Nasdaq By the end of 2022 Bitcoin prices dropped sharply to 15000 USD following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its bankruptcy which caused a loss of confidence in the market By August 2024 Bitcoin rebounded to approximately 64178 USD but remained volatile due to inflation and interest rate hikes Unlike fiat currency like the US dollar Bitcoin’s supply is finite with 21 million coins as its maximum supply By September 2024 over 92 percent of Bitcoin had been mined Bitcoin’s value is tied to its scarcity and its mining process is regulated through halving events which cut the reward for mining every four years making it harder and more energy-intensive to mine The next halving event in 2024 will reduce the reward to 3125 BTC from its current 625 BTC The final Bitcoin is expected to be mined around 2140 The energy required to mine Bitcoin has led to criticisms about its environmental impact with estimates in 2021 suggesting that one Bitcoin transaction used as much energy as Argentina Bitcoin’s future price is difficult to predict due to the influence of large holders known as whales who own about 92 percent of all Bitcoin These whales can cause dramatic market swings by making large trades and many retail investors still dominate the market While institutional interest has grown it remains a small fraction compared to retail Bitcoin is vulnerable to external factors like regulatory changes and economic crises leading some to believe it is in a speculative bubble However others argue that Bitcoin is still in its early stages of adoption and will grow further as more institutions and governments recognize its potential as a hedge against inflation and a store of value 2024 has also seen the rise of Bitcoin Layer 2 technologies like the Lightning Network which improve scalability by enabling faster and cheaper transactions These innovations are crucial for Bitcoin’s wider adoption especially for day-to-day use and cross-border remittances At the same time central bank digital currencies CBDCs are gaining traction as several governments including China and the European Union have accelerated the development of their own state-controlled digital currencies while Bitcoin remains decentralized offering financial sovereignty for those who prefer independence from government control The rise of CBDCs is expected to increase interest in Bitcoin as a hedge against these centralized currencies Bitcoin’s journey in 2024 highlights its growing institutional acceptance alongside its inherent market volatility While the approval of Bitcoin ETFs has significantly boosted interest the market remains sensitive to events like exchange collapses and regulatory decisions With the limited supply of Bitcoin and improvements in its transaction efficiency it is expected to remain a key player in the financial world for years to come Whether Bitcoin is currently in a speculative bubble or on a sustainable path to greater adoption will ultimately be revealed over time.

View daily updates and historical trends for Bitcoin Price. Source: CoinGecko. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Prices for BTCUSD Bitcoin US Dollar including live quotes, historical charts and news. BTCUSD Bitcoin US Dollar was last updated by Trading Economics this November 30 of 2025.

By 2025, the Bitcoin market cap had grown to over ******** billion USD as the cryptocurrency kept growing. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the total number of Bitcoins in circulation by the Bitcoin price. The Bitcoin market capitalization increased from approximately *** billion U.S. dollars in 2013 to several times this amount since its surge in popularity. Dominance The Bitcoin market cap takes up a significant portion of the overall cryptocurrency market cap. This is referred to as "dominance". Within the crypto world, this so-called "dominance" ratio is one of the oldest and most investigated metrics available. It measures the coin's market cap relative to the overall crypto market — effectively showing how strong Bitcoin compared to all the other cryptocurrencies that are not BTC, called "altcoins". The Bitcoin dominance was above ** percent. Maximum supply and scarcity Bitcoin is unusual from other cryptocurrencies in that its maximum supply is getting closer. By 2025, well over ** million out of all 21 million possible Bitcoin had been created. Bitcoin's supply is expected to reach its maximum around the year 2140, likely making mining more energy-intensive.

Bitcoin reached its all-time high price on October 6, 2025.

This dataset contains historical data of Bitcoin prices with a 6-hour time frame spanning from 2018 to 2020. The data includes various features such as open, high, low, close prices, and volume for each time period.

Columns: timestamp: The timestamp for each data point. open: The opening price of Bitcoin. high: The highest price of Bitcoin during the 6-hour period. low: The lowest price of Bitcoin during the 6-hour period. close: The closing price of Bitcoin. volume: The trading volume of Bitcoin. Context: Understanding the historical trends and patterns in Bitcoin prices is crucial for traders, analysts, and enthusiasts. This dataset provides an opportunity for exploratory data analysis (EDA), statistical analysis, and the development of machine learning models to predict future price movements.

Introduction: The "Cryptocurrency Price Analysis Dataset: BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC (2018-2023)" is a comprehensive dataset that captures the daily price movements of six popular cryptocurrencies. It covers a period from January 1, 2018, to May 31, 2023, providing a valuable resource for researchers, analysts, and enthusiasts interested in studying the historical price behavior of these digital assets.

Description: This dataset contains a wealth of information for six major cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), and Litecoin (LTC). The data spans a time frame of over five years, enabling users to explore long-term trends, analyze volatility patterns, and gain insights into market dynamics.

Columns:

1. Crypto: This column specifies the name of the cryptocurrency (e.g., BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC).
2. Date: The date on which the price data was recorded.
3. Open: The opening price of the cryptocurrency at the beginning of the day.
4. High: The highest price reached by the cryptocurrency during the day.
5. Low: The lowest price reached by the cryptocurrency during the day.
6. Close: The closing price of the cryptocurrency at the end of the day.

Use Cases: The dataset offers numerous possibilities for analysis and research within the field of cryptocurrencies. Here are a few potential use cases:

1. Price Analysis: Researchers can investigate the historical price movements of each cryptocurrency to identify trends, patterns, and potential correlations between different assets.
2. Volatility Study: The dataset enables the study of volatility in cryptocurrency markets, helping users understand the frequency and magnitude of price fluctuations.
3. Market Performance: Analysts can analyze the performance of individual cryptocurrencies over time, comparing returns and risk measures to assess their investment potential.
4. Trading Strategies: Traders can utilize the dataset to develop and backtest trading strategies based on technical indicators, price patterns, or machine learning algorithms.
5. Sentiment Analysis: Combine this dataset with external sentiment data to explore the relationship between market sentiment and cryptocurrency price movements. By sharing this dataset on Kaggle, you are providing a valuable resource to the data science community, encouraging collaborative research, and enabling the development of innovative models and solutions within the cryptocurrency domain.

Please note that this dataset is for educational and research purposes only and should not be used for making financial decisions without thorough analysis and consultation with financial professionals.

All-time high price data for Bitcoin, including the peak value, date achieved, and current comparison metrics.

Daily historical price data for Bitcoin including high, low, open, close, and percentage difference over the most recent 24 days.

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Bitcoin price data for 2025-11-19 including currency, value, high, low, open, close, and percentage difference.

These files contain the date, open, high, low, close, adjusted close, and volume for 5 years (as of 6/3/2024) for the following: BCH - Bitcoin Cash, BNB - Binance, BTC - Bitcoin, ETH - Ethereum, SOL - Solana, USDT - Tether, XMR - Monero, XRP - XRP,

Prices are in USD.

Content

The dataset has one CSV file. Price history is available on a minute basis from 2017. This dataset has the historical price information of 1 Bitcoin by USDT (equivalent to USD).

• Date : date of observation
• Open : Opening price on the given minute
• High: Highest price on the given minute
• Low : Lowest price on the given minute
• Close : Closing price on the given minute
• Volume : Volume of transactions on the given minute

Acknowledgements

This data is taken from Binance and it is free to use the data.

Bitcoin dominance steadily declined in April 2024 to below ** percent, amid rumors of central banks halting or potentially lowering interest rates in the future. Within the crypto world, this so-called "dominance" ratio is one of the oldest and most investigated metrics available. It measures the coin's market cap relative to the overall crypto market — effectively showing how strong Bitcoin compared to all the other cryptocurrencies that are not BTC, called "altcoins". Why dominance matters is because market caps of any crypto can change relatively quickly, either due to sudden price changes or a change of recorded trading volume. Essentially, the figure somewhat resembles a trading sentiment, revealing whether Bitcoin investors are responding to certain events or whether Bitcoin is losing out on functions offered by, for example, stablecoins or NFT tokens. "Dominance" criticism: Ethereum and stablecoin The interpretation of the Bitcoin metric is not without its criticism. When first conceived, Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency to be created and had a substantial market share within all cryptocurrencies? The overall share of stablecoins, such as Tether, as well as Ethereum increasingly start to resemble that of Bitcoin, however. Some analysts argue against this comparison. For one, they point towards the large influence of trading activity between Bitcoin and Ethereum in the dominance metric. Second, they argue that stablecoins can be traded in for Bitcoin and Ethereum, essentially showing how much investors are willing to engage with "regular" cryptocurrency. A rally around Bitcoin in late 2023? By December 2023, the Bitcoin price reached roughly 41,000 U.S. dollars — the first time in 20 months such a value was reached. A weaker U.S. dollar, speculation on decreasing interest rates, and a potential Bitcoin ETF approval are believed to be at the heart of this price increase. Whether this will hold in 2024 is unclear: The monthly interest rate from the U.S. Fed is speculated to decrease in 2024, despite a vow of "higher for longer". In December 2023, the thought of decreasing interest rates and the potential of a Bitcoin ETF fuelled market sentiment towards riskier assets.

It is estimated that the cumulative market cap of cryptocurrencies increased in early 2023 after the downfall in November 2022 due to FTX. That value declined in the summer of 2023, however, as international uncertainty grew over a potential recession. Bitcoin's market cap comprised the majority of the overall market capitalization. What is market cap? Market capitalization is a financial measure typically used for publicly traded firms, computed by multiplying the share price by the number of outstanding shares. However, cryptocurrency analysts calculate it as the price of the virtual currencies times the number of coins in the market. This gives cryptocurrency investors an idea of the overall market size, and watching the evolution of the measure tells how much money is flowing in or out of each cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency as an investment The price of Bitcoin has been erratic, and most other cryptocurrencies follow its larger price swings. This volatility attracts investors who hope to buy when the price is low and sell at its peak, turning a profit. However, this does little for price stability. As such, few firms accept payment in cryptocurrencies. As of October 01, 2025, the cumulative market cap of cryptocurrencies reached a value of *******.

BTC (Bitcoin) Historical Data Dataset This dataset provides historical data of Bitcoin (BTC) including various key features over a period of time. The dataset includes the following features:

Date: Date of the recorded data point. Price: The price of Bitcoin at the given date. Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP): Average price of Bitcoin weighted by trading volume. Open: Opening price of Bitcoin at the beginning of the day. High: Highest price of Bitcoin during the day. Low: Lowest price of Bitcoin during the day. Close: Closing price of Bitcoin at the end of the day. Volume: Trading volume of Bitcoin at the given date.

Ethereum's price history suggests that that crypto was worth more in 2025 than during late 2021, although nowhere near the highest price recorded. Much like Bitcoin (BTC), the price of ETH went up in 2021 but for different reasons altogether: Ethereum, for instance, hit the news when a digital art piece was sold as the world's most expensive NFT for over 38,000 ETH - or 69.3 million U.S. dollars. Unlike Bitcoin, of which the price growth was fueled by the IPO of the U.S.'s biggest crypto trader, Coinbase, the rally on Ethereum came from technological developments that caused much excitement among traders. First, the so-called 'Berlin update' rolled out on the Ethereum network in April 2021, an update that would eventually lead to the Ethereum Merge in 2022 and reduced ETH gas prices - or reduced transaction fees. The collapse of FTX in late 2022, however, changed much for the cryptocurrency. As of November 13, 2025, Ethereum was worth 3,409.61 U.S. dollars - significantly less than the 4,400 U.S. dollars by the end of 2021.Ethereum's future and the DeFi industryPrice developments on Ethereum are difficult to predict but cannot be seen without the world of DeFi, or decentralized finance. This industry used technology to remove intermediaries between parties in a financial transaction. One example includes crypto wallets such as Coinbase Wallet that grew in popularity recently, with other examples including smart contractor Uniswap, Maker (responsible for stablecoin DAI), moneylender Dharma and market protocol Compound. Ethereum's future developments are tied with this industry: Unlike Bitcoin and Ripple, Ethereum is technically not a currency but an open-source software platform for blockchain applications, with Ether being the cryptocurrency that is used inside the Ethereum network. Essentially, Ethereum facilitates DeFi, meaning that if DeFi does well, so does Ethereum.NFTs: the most well-known application of EthereumNFTs or non-fungible tokens, grew nearly tenfold between 2018 and 2020, as can be seen in the market cap of NFTs worldwide. These digital blockchain assets can essentially function as a unique code connected to a digital file, allowing to distinguish the original file from any potential copies. This application is especially prominent in crypto art, although there are other applications: gaming, sports, and collectibles are other segments where NFT sales occur.

Cryptocurrency historical datasets from January 2012 (if available) to October 2021 were obtained and integrated from various sources and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including Yahoo Finance, Cryptodownload, CoinMarketCap, various Kaggle datasets, and multiple APIs. While these datasets used various formats of time (e.g., minutes, hours, days), in order to integrate the datasets days format was used for in this research study. The integrated cryptocurrency historical datasets for 80 cryptocurrencies including but not limited to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), Tether (USDT), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), USD Coin (USDC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Tron (TRX), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS), Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), Uniswap (UNI), Terra (LUNA), SHIBA INU (SHIB), and 60 more cryptocurrencies were uploaded in this online Mendeley data repository. Although the primary attribute of including the mentioned cryptocurrencies was the Market Capitalization, a subject matter expert i.e., a professional trader has also guided the initial selection of the cryptocurrencies by analyzing various indicators such as Relative Strength Index (RSI), Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD), MYC Signals, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Retracement, Stochastic Oscillator and Ichimoku Cloud. The primary features of this dataset that were used as the decision-making criteria of the CLUS-MCDA II approach are Timestamps, Open, High, Low, Closed, Volume (Currency), % Change (7 days and 24 hours), Market Cap and Weighted Price values. The available excel and CSV files in this data set are just part of the integrated data and other databases, datasets and API References that was used in this study are as follows: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/ [2] https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/ [3] https://cryptodatadownload.com/ [4] https://kaggle.com/philmohun/cryptocurrency-financial-data [5] https://kaggle.com/deepshah16/meme-cryptocurrency-historical-data [6] https://kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/cryptocurrencypricehistory [7] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=BTC&tsyms=USD [8] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/ [9] https://p.nomics.com/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-api [10] https://www.coinapi.io/ [11] https://www.coingecko.com/en/api [12] https://cryptowat.ch/ [13] https://www.alphavantage.co/ This dataset is part of the CLUS-MCDA (Cluster analysis for improving Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) and CLUS-MCDAII Project: https://aimaghsoodi.github.io/CLUSMCDA-R-Package/ https://github.com/Aimaghsoodi/CLUS-MCDA-II https://github.com/azadkavian/CLUS-MCDA

Dataset Overview: 📊🕰️📈

The dataset comprises eight files, each capturing Bitcoin's journey from 2018 to 2022, with varying time intervals. Columns include:

1. datetime: 📅

   • Timestamp or date record.

2. open: 🌐

   • Initial Bitcoin price.

3. high: 🔝

   • Peak Bitcoin value.

4. low: 🔻

   • Lowest Bitcoin value.

5. close: 📉🔚

   • Final Bitcoin price.

6. volume: 🔄📊

   • Total Bitcoin units traded.

File Descriptions: 🗃️

1. btc_15m.csv: 🔄🕒

   • Fifteen-minute intervals.
   • Captures short-term fluctuations.

2. btc_1h.csv: 🔄⏰📈

   • Hourly intervals.
   • Reveals key trends and fluctuations.

3. btc_2h.csv: 🔄📊

   • Two-hour intervals.
   • Offers insights into medium-term dynamics.

4. btc_30m.csv: 🔄🕒📉

   • Thirty-minute intervals.
   • Provides detailed short-term trend analysis.

5. btc_3m.csv: 🔄⚡📊

   • Three-minute intervals.
   • Suitable for capturing rapid market changes.

6. btc_4h.csv: 🔄🕓📉

   • Four-hour intervals.
   • Balances short and medium-term insights.

7. btc_5m.csv: 🔄🕔📈

   • Five-minute intervals.
   • Granular analysis of short-term movements.

8. btc_6h.csv: 🔄🕕📉

   • Six-hour intervals.
   • Offers a broader view of market trends.

Columns and files collectively provide a visually enriched exploration of Bitcoin's price behavior, facilitating analysis across various timeframes to understand both short-term volatility and longer-term market trends. 🚀💹