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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.
Bitcoin (BTC) price again reached an all-time high in 2024, as values exceeded over 73,000 USD in March 2024. That particular price hike was connected to the approval of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, whilst 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.’ biggest crypto exchange fueled mass interest. The market was noticeably different by the end of 2022, however, with Bitcoin prices reaching roughly 94,315.98 as of May 4, 2025, 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 few cryptocurrency holders own a large portion of available supply. These large holders - referred to as “whales” - are said to make up of two percent of anonymous ownership accounts, whilst 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 already having a significant impact on this market.
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This dataset contains historical Bitcoin (BTC/USDT) price data from Binance exchange with the following specifications:
Timezone Information: - All timestamps are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) - Open time format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ffffff UTC - Close time format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ffffff UTC
Daily Timeframe Specific: - Open time: Always shows 00:00:00.000000 UTC (start of day) - Close time: Always shows 23:59:59.999000 UTC (end of day)
Timeframes Available: - 15-minute intervals (15m) - 1-hour intervals (1h) - 4-hour intervals (4h) - 1-day intervals (1d)
Data Columns: - Open time: Opening timestamp in UTC - Open: Opening price - High: Highest price during period - Low: Lowest price during period - Close: Closing price - Volume: Trading volume - Close time: Closing timestamp in UTC - Quote asset volume: Volume in quote asset (USDT) - Number of trades: Number of trades during period - Taker buy base asset volume: Volume of taker buy orders - Taker buy quote asset volume: Volume of taker buy orders in quote asset - Ignore: Unused field
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Prices for BTCUSC Bitcoin USD Coin including live quotes, historical charts and news. BTCUSC Bitcoin USD Coin was last updated by Trading Economics this July 21 of 2025.
Bitcoin's circulating supply has grown steadily since its inception in 2009, reaching over 19 million coins by early 2025. This gradual increase reflects the cryptocurrency's design, which put a limit of 21 million on the total number of bitcoins that can ever exist. This impacts the Bitcoin price somewhat, as its scarcity can lead to volatility on the market. Maximum supply and scarcity Bitcoin is unusual from other cryptocurrencies in that its maximum supply is getting closer. By 2025, more than 90 percent of all possible Bitcoin had been created. That said, Bitcoin's circulating supply is expected to reach its maximum around the year 2140. Meanwhile, mining becomes exponentially more difficult and energy-intensive. Institutional investors In 2025, countries like the United States openly started discussion the possibility of buying bitcoins to hold in reserve. By the time of writing, it was unclear whether this would happen. Nevertheless, institutional investors displayed more interest in the cryptocurrency than before. Certain companies owned several thousands of Bitcoin tokens in 2025, for example. This and the limited number of Bitcoin may further fuel price volatility.
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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/
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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.
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Things like Block chain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple etc are constantly coming in the news articles I read. So I wanted to understand more about it and this post helped me get started. Once the basics are done, the data scientist inside me started raising questions like:
So what next? Now that we have the price data, I wanted to dig a little more about the factors affecting the price of coins. I started of with Bitcoin and there are quite a few parameters which affect the price of Bitcoin. Thanks to Blockchain Info, I was able to get quite a few parameters on once in two day basis.
This will help understand the other factors related to Bitcoin price and also help one make future predictions in a better way than just using the historical price.
The dataset has one csv file for each currency. Price history is available on a daily basis from April 28, 2013. This dataset has the historical price information of some of the top crypto currencies by market capitalization.
This data is taken from coinmarketcap and it is free to use the data.
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Some of the questions which could be inferred from this dataset are:
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Graph and download economic data for Coinbase Bitcoin (CBBTCUSD) from 2014-12-01 to 2025-07-19 about cryptocurrency and USA.
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.
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Відстеження історії цін Fractal Bitcoin дозволяє криптоінвесторам легко контролювати ефективність своїх інвестицій. Ви можете зручно відстежувати значення відкриття, максимуму і закриття для Fractal Bitcoin, а також обсягу торгівлі протягом певного часу. Крім того, ви можете миттєво переглянути щоденні зміни у відсотках, що дозволяє легко визначити дні зі значними коливаннями. Згідно з нашими даними історії цін Fractal Bitcoin, його вартість злетіла до безпрецедентного піку в 2024-09-15, перевищивши $39.25 USD. З іншого боку, найнижча точка цінової траєкторії Fractal Bitcoin, яку зазвичай називають «історичним мінімумом Fractal Bitcoin», сталася на 2025-06-17. Якби хтось придбав Fractal Bitcoin за цей час, то зараз він би мав неабиякий прибуток у розмірі 15%. За задумом, буде створено 127,696,975 Fractal Bitcoin. Наразі циркулююча пропозиція Fractal Bitcoin становить приблизно 60,560,150. Всі ціни, вказані на цій сторінці, отримані від надійного джерела Bitget. Дуже важливо покладатися на єдине джерело для тестування ваших інвестицій, оскільки значення можуть відрізнятися у різних продавців. До наших даних історичної ціни Fractal Bitcoin входять дані з інтервалами в 1 хвилину, 1 день, 1 тиждень та 1 місяць (відкриття/макс./мін./закриття/обсяг). Ці дані пройшли ретельне тестування для забезпечення узгодженості, повноти та точності. Вони спеціально підібрані для моделювання торгівлі та бек-тестування, доступні для безоплатного завантаження та оновлюються в режимі реального часу.
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The longest Bitcoin price series on Kaggle. Collected from various sources - so you don't have to.
Open, High, Low, Close prices (in US Dollars) and trading Volume data.
Is bitcoin a scam or the new gold? Is it a good asset for investments? Can you mine the seasonality patterns? Can you predict the price of bitcoin next year? Would it help to augment this series with exogeneous data, for instance, summary of SEC conferences or Elon Musk's tweets posts? Can the bitcoin price be handy to predict other events, for instance, the sentiment in the news? Let's find out!
Sources 7.2010-09.2014: Investing.com 09.2014-03.2014: YahooFinance API (with yfinance)
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This dataset contains daily historical market data for Bitcoin (BTC) priced in USD, spanning 10 years from Origin till 2024-05-01. It includes key financial metrics such as Open, High, Low, Close, Adjusted Close, and Volume. This dataset is perfect for economic analysis, time series modelling, and cryptocurrency research.
This dataset is ideal for: 1. Financial Analysis: Analyzing Bitcoin price trends, volatility, and market behaviour over a decade. 2. Time Series Analysis: Using historical data to build predictive models for Bitcoin prices. 3. Algorithmic Trading: Developing trading strategies and backtesting them. 4. Cryptocurrency Research: Studying the adoption and market dynamics of Bitcoin. 5. Data Visualization: Creating charts and graphs to visualize Bitcoin’s price history.
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DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN narxlar tarixini kuzatish kriptovalyuta investorlariga o'z investitsiyalari samaradorligini osongina kuzatish imkonini beradi. Vaqt o'tishi bilan DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN uchun ochilish qiymati, yuqori va yopilishini hamda savdo hajmini qulay tarzda kuzatishingiz mumkin. Bundan tashqari, siz kunlik o'zgarishlarni bir zumda foiz sifatida ko'rishingiz mumkin, bu esa sezilarli tebranishlar bo'lgan kunlarni aniqlashni osonlashtiradi. Bizning DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN narxlari tarixiy ma'lumotlariga ko'ra, uning qiymati 2024-04-22da misli ko'rilmagan cho'qqigacha ko'tarilib, $0.{4}3287 AQSh dollaridan oshib ketdi. Boshqa tomondan, DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN narxlari traektoriyasidagi eng past nuqta, odatda “DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN barcha vaqtlardagi eng past” deb ataladigan nuqta 2025-02-26 da sodir bo'ldi. Agar kimdir shu vaqt ichida DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN xarid qilgan bo'lsa, u hozirda -100% miqdorida ajoyib foyda olishi mumkin edi. Maqsadga ko'ra 21B DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN yaratiladi. Hozirda DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN aylanma ta'minoti taxminan 0 ni tashkil qiladi. Ushbu sahifada keltirilgan barcha narxlar ishonchli manba Bitgetdan olingan. Investitsiyalaringizni tekshirish uchun bitta manbaga tayanish juda muhim, chunki qiymatlar turli sotuvchilar orasida farq qilishi mumkin. Tarixiy DONT SELL YOUR F#CKING BITCOIN narxlari ma'lumotlar to'plamimiz 1 daqiqa, 1 kun, 1 hafta va 1 oy oralig'idagi ma'lumotlarni o'z ichiga oladi (ochiq/yuqori/past/yopiq/hajm). Ushbu ma'lumotlar to'plamlari izchillik, to'liqlik va aniqlikni ta'minlash uchun qattiq sinovdan o'tkazildi. Ular maxsus savdo simulyatsiyasi va test sinovlari uchun mo'ljallangan bo'lib, ularni bepul yuklab olish mumkin va real vaqt rejimida yangilanadi.
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RUNES·X·BITCOIN narxlar tarixini kuzatish kriptovalyuta investorlariga o'z investitsiyalari samaradorligini osongina kuzatish imkonini beradi. Vaqt o'tishi bilan RUNES·X·BITCOIN uchun ochilish qiymati, yuqori va yopilishini hamda savdo hajmini qulay tarzda kuzatishingiz mumkin. Bundan tashqari, siz kunlik o'zgarishlarni bir zumda foiz sifatida ko'rishingiz mumkin, bu esa sezilarli tebranishlar bo'lgan kunlarni aniqlashni osonlashtiradi. Bizning RUNES·X·BITCOIN narxlari tarixiy ma'lumotlariga ko'ra, uning qiymati 2025-07-21da misli ko'rilmagan cho'qqigacha ko'tarilib, -- AQSh dollaridan oshib ketdi. Boshqa tomondan, RUNES·X·BITCOIN narxlari traektoriyasidagi eng past nuqta, odatda “RUNES·X·BITCOIN barcha vaqtlardagi eng past” deb ataladigan nuqta 2025-07-21 da sodir bo'ldi. Agar kimdir shu vaqt ichida RUNES·X·BITCOIN xarid qilgan bo'lsa, u hozirda 0% miqdorida ajoyib foyda olishi mumkin edi. Dizayni bo'yicha RUNES·X·BITCOIN o'zining umumiy ta'minotida cheklovga ega emas. Uning muomaladagi manbai hozirda -- tangalardir. Ushbu sahifada keltirilgan barcha narxlar ishonchli manba Bitgetdan olingan. Investitsiyalaringizni tekshirish uchun bitta manbaga tayanish juda muhim, chunki qiymatlar turli sotuvchilar orasida farq qilishi mumkin. Tarixiy RUNES·X·BITCOIN narxlari ma'lumotlar to'plamimiz 1 daqiqa, 1 kun, 1 hafta va 1 oy oralig'idagi ma'lumotlarni o'z ichiga oladi (ochiq/yuqori/past/yopiq/hajm). Ushbu ma'lumotlar to'plamlari izchillik, to'liqlik va aniqlikni ta'minlash uchun qattiq sinovdan o'tkazildi. Ular maxsus savdo simulyatsiyasi va test sinovlari uchun mo'ljallangan bo'lib, ularni bepul yuklab olish mumkin va real vaqt rejimida yangilanadi.
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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.