2010-07-25
Price (daily close): $0.05.
Bitcoin price in the same daily row: $0.05. This is a descriptive reference point in this dataset; it does not establish a market top, bottom or future return.
Price
The daily closing price of Bitcoin in US dollars.
Latest daily observationClosed day
- Price (daily close)
- $81,918.20
- Bitcoin price
- $81,918.20
Observation: UTC. Dataset updated: .
Updated daily, normally at 09:30 Europe/Madrid. Daily resolution.
Data cross-checked. Computed from the validated daily BTC/USD close. Price: cross-checked against Bitstamp daily BTC/USD close (independent exchange) (median difference 0.15% over 5,542 days (2011-08-18 to 2026-10-19); 95% of days within 1.78%). Checked 2026-10-20. Data status
Recent daily values
The last seven closed UTC days. These values remain daily when you change the chart range.
| Date (UTC) | Price (daily close) | Bitcoin price |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | $81,918.20 | $81,918.20 |
| 2026-10-18 | $81,935.17 | $81,935.17 |
| 2026-10-17 | $81,268.94 | $81,268.94 |
| 2026-10-16 | $81,538.30 | $81,538.30 |
| 2026-10-15 | $82,116.23 | $82,116.23 |
| 2026-10-14 | $81,498.52 | $81,498.52 |
| 2026-10-13 | $83,141.42 | $83,141.42 |
Formula
Price = the BTC/USD reference close of each UTC day, as published by Coin Metrics Community Data (no further transformation). One value per calendar day from 2010-07-18.
How to read it
This is the plainest chart on the site: one point per day, the dollar price at which Bitcoin closed that day, from the first exchange quotes in July 2010 to yesterday. Every other market-cycle chart here is built on top of this same series.
The axis is logarithmic, so equal vertical distances mean equal percentage moves. That is what lets eight cents and a six-figure price share one picture, and it shows each cycle's run-up and bear market at a comparable size instead of flattening the early years into a line along the floor.
A closing price is a snapshot taken once a day. It hides the swings inside the day, and the exact level can differ by a fraction of a percent between data vendors that close the day at slightly different moments or weigh exchanges differently.
Limitations
- Glassnode builds its price from a volume-weighted average across centralised and decentralised exchanges with its own outlier filtering; ours is Coin Metrics' daily reference close. The two methods agree closely but are not identical, especially in the thin markets of 2010-2012.
- One value per day: intraday highs and lows are not shown, so daily peaks and crashes look smaller than they felt in real time.
- The history starts on 2010-07-18, when regular exchange trading began; earlier, informal trades are not included.
- Prices are in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Historical examples
Selected mechanically: the lowest and highest closed-day Price (daily close) in the available history (2010-07-18 to 2026-10-19). These are observations, not forecasts or trading signals.
2025-10-06
Price (daily close): $124,824.45.
Bitcoin price in the same daily row: $124,824.45. This is a descriptive reference point in this dataset; it does not establish a market top, bottom or future return.
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Source: Computed by Black Almanak from the validated daily BTC/USD close. Price source: Coin Metrics Community Data (CC BY-NC 4.0). Daily history since 2010-07-18. Methodology and sources.