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.

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.

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

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

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

View daily updates and historical trends for Bitcoin Market Cap. Source: Blockchain.com. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

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 *******.

Context Recent growing interest in cryptocurrencies, specifically as a speculative investment vehicle, has sparked global conversation over the past 12 months. Although this data is available across various sites, there is a lack of understanding as to what is driving the exponential rise of many individual currencies. This data set is intended to be a starting point for a detailed analysis into what is driving price action, and what can be done to predict future movement. Content Consolidated financial information for the top 10 cryptocurrencies by marketcap. Pulled from CoinMarketCap.com. Attributes include:

Currency name (e.g. bitcoin) Date
Open High Low Close Volume Marketcap

Inspiration For the past few months I have been searching for a reliable source for historical price information related to cryptocurrencies. I wasn't able to find anything that I could use to my liking, so I built my own data set. I've written a small script that scrapes historical price information for the top 200 coins by market cap as listed on CoinMarketCap.com. I plan to run some basic analysis on it to answer questions that I have a "gut" feeling about, but no quantitative evidence (yet). Questions such as:

What is the correlation between bitcoin and alt coin prices What is the average age of the top 10 coins by market cap What day of the week is best to buysell Which coins in the top two hundred are less than 6 months old Which currencies are the most volatile What the hell happens when we go to bed and Asia starts trading

Feel free to use this for your own purposes I just ask that you share your results with the group when complete. Happy hunting

Dataset

This dataset was created by Aqeel Abbas Khan

Contents

I am a new developer and I would greatly appreciate your support. If you find this dataset helpful, please consider giving it an upvote!

Key Features:

Complete 1h Data: Raw 1h historical data from multiple exchanges, covering the entire trading history of BTCUSD available through their API endpoints. This dataset is updated daily to ensure up-to-date coverage.

Combined Index Dataset: A unique feature of this dataset is the combined index, which is derived by averaging all other datasets into one, please see attached notebook. This creates the longest continuous, unbroken BTCUSD dataset available on Kaggle, with no gaps and no erroneous values. It gives a much more comprehensive view of the market i.e. total volume across multiple exchanges.

Superior Performance: The combined index dataset has demonstrated superior 'mean average error' (MAE) metric performance when training machine learning models, compared to single-source datasets by a whole order of MAE magnitude.

Unbroken History: The combined dataset's continuous history is a valuable asset for researchers and traders who require accurate and uninterrupted time series data for modeling or back-testing.

https://i.imgur.com/OVOyF5A.png" alt="BTCUSD Dataset Summary">

https://i.imgur.com/6hxG2G3.png" alt="Combined Dataset Close Plot"> This plot illustrates the continuity of the dataset over time, with no gaps in data, making it ideal for time series analysis.

Included Resources:

Two Notebooks:

Dataset Usage and Diagnostics: This notebook demonstrates how to use the dataset and includes a powerful data diagnostics function, which is useful for all time series analyses.

Aggregating Multiple Data Sources: This notebook walks you through the process of combining multiple exchange datasets into a single, clean dataset. (Currently unavailable, will be added shortly)

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.

View daily updates and historical trends for Bitcoin Transactions Per Day. Source: Blockchain.com. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Graph and download economic data for Coinbase Bitcoin (CBBTCUSD) from 2014-12-01 to 2025-12-01 about cryptocurrency and USA.

The average price of one Bitcoin Cash reached its all-time high in 2017, although the price since then never came close to that position. As of November 16, 2025, one Bitcoin Cash token was worth 502.16 U.S. dollars, rather than the nearly 2,500 USD from the peak in 2017. Bitcoin Cash, abbreviated as BCH, is a variant of the much more known Bitcoin, or BTC, and is traded separately on online exchanges. That the two cryptocurrencies are different from each other already shows when looking at the price of a 'regular' Bitcoin: this was over 40,000 U.S. dollars during the same time frame.

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.

Ripple, or XRP, prices surged in 2021 but went down significantly as 2022 progressed. As of November 16, 2025, one XRP token was worth 2.24 U.S. dollars. Ethereum's price, for example, kept on reaching new all-time highs, a feat not performed by XRP. Indeed, XRP's price spikes followed relatively late - only occurring in early 2021, against late 2020 for most other cryptos - after the US SEC filed a legal complaint against Ripple in November 2020. This legal action caused the XRP price to plummet from around 0.70 U.S. dollars to 0.20 U.S. dollars.Ripple versus XRP: two become oneTechnically speaking, Ripple is not a cryptocurrency. Renamed from a protocol called OpenCoin in 2013, Ripple facilitates open-source payments. XRP, on the other hand, is the cryptocurrency that runs on this network. In that sense, Ripple and XRP have a similar symbiosis to each other, like the Ethereum network and its cryptocurrency, Ether. Unlike Ethereum - whose price changes are connected to the world of Decentralized Finance or DeFI - Ripple/XRP mostly looks at developments in cross-border payments for companies. In 2020, companies worldwide began to favor fintech solutions for future B2B solutions and, in a way, Ripple is an extension of that.What affects the price of Ripple?Ripple is mostly active in Southeast Asia - a region with a splintered payment landscape and that heavily investigates its own types of state-issued cryptocurrency to make cross-border payments a lot easier. Price spikes tend to follow news on this topic in this specific region. In 2019, for example, the XRP price grew after Japan and South Korea began testing to reduce time and costs for transferring international funds between the two countries. In March 2021, Ripple announced that it had agreed to acquire 40 percent of Malaysian cross-border payments firm Tranglo to meet growing demand in Southeast Asia.

Overview:

This dataset contains detailed information on cryptocurrency transactions, specifically focusing on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The dataset includes transaction details such as sender and receiver addresses, transaction amounts, fees, timestamps, and mining pool information. It serves as a valuable resource for analyzing market trends, identifying patterns in trading behavior, and studying blockchain transaction dynamics across different mining pools.

Data Fields (Columns):

1. Transaction_ID:

• Description: A unique identifier for each cryptocurrency transaction.
• Type: String
• Example: TX2QW62Q5XM17K

2. Sender_Address:

• Description: The blockchain address of the sender initiating the transaction.
• Type: String
• Example: 0xd377b9203ad74038664c08f658c0245632651f55

3. Receiver_Address:

• Description: The blockchain address of the recipient receiving the transaction.
• Type: String
• Example: 0x4a3370c0f0b83d519ddf50892d006f64d7425880

4. Amount:

• Description: The total amount of cryptocurrency transferred in the transaction (in either BTC or ETH).
• Type: Float
• Example: 11.39618058 (BTC or ETH depending on the currency type)

5. Transaction_Fee:

• Description: The transaction fee paid to process the transaction.
• Type: Float
• Example: 6.226e-05

6. Timestamp:

• Description: The date and time when the transaction was processed, in ISO 8601 format.
• Type: Datetime (ISO 8601)
• Example: 2025-03-30T23:32:40.589676Z

7. Block_ID:

• Description: The unique identifier for the block that the transaction was included in.
• Type: String
• Example: f4A4D894b9Ee166B3F75F4Fb

8. Mining_Pool:

• Description: The name of the mining pool that confirmed the transaction.
• Type: String
• Example: Ethermine

9. Currency:

• Description: The cryptocurrency type involved in the transaction (either BTC or ETH).
• Type: String
• Example: ETH

10. Transaction_Type:

• Description: The type of the transaction. Typically, it is "Transfer" for regular cryptocurrency transfers.
• Type: String
• Example: Transfer

11. Transaction_Status:

• Description: The current status of the transaction, such as "Confirmed".
• Type: String
• Example: Confirmed

12. Gas_Price_Gwei:

• Description: The gas price for Ethereum transactions, measured in Gwei (used for ETH transactions only).
• Type: Integer
• Example: 50 (Only applicable to Ethereum transactions)

Use Cases:

1. Market Trend Analysis

Analyze transaction patterns to identify market trends and behaviors.
- Use the data to track spikes or drops in transaction volumes and correlate them with market events or price movements.

2. Blockchain Dynamics

Study how mining pools and transaction fees interact with blockchain dynamics.
- Investigate how different mining pools impact transaction confirmation times and fees across Bitcoin and Ethereum networks.

3. Trading Behavior

Investigate the behavior of users sending or receiving cryptocurrency.
- Identify patterns such as frequent senders/receivers, average transaction amounts, and transaction frequency.

4. Fee and Gas Price Optimization

Explore transaction fees and gas price fluctuations across different mining pools and blockchains.
- Examine how Ethereum’s gas prices and Bitcoin’s transaction fees fluctuate over time and how this affects user behavior.