The Bitcoin Price Record, Dated and Sourced

What this page is, and is not

This page is a record. It states what prices did, when they did it, and who reported the number. It is not a forecast. It predicts nothing about the next halving, the next cycle, or the next quarter. That lock is standing. Price pages attract prediction copy, and this library does not carry it.

The method is dating. Every figure below carries its read date or its event date. A price without a date is noise. A dated price is a fact about a moment, and moments are all this page claims.

Where a bitcoin price comes from

Bitcoin has no issuer and no redemption desk. Nothing in the system promises to buy a coin back at any price. The price is whatever public markets print, continuously, everywhere at once. That is a structural difference from a stablecoin, which pins its target to a redemption claim an issuer stands behind. The comparison page carries that contrast in full. Here the point is narrower. No office sets this number. Every figure on this page is a market read, and is labeled with who read it and when.

The two numbers people quote

Two figures anchor any honest price discussion. The all-time high, per a market-data provider, was 126,080 dollars, reached on 6 October 2025 ^[2]. The spot price at this site’s latest read was 77,301 dollars, on 12 September 2026 ^[1]. The gap between those two numbers is itself a dated fact, not a commentary.

The two numbers are different kinds of fact. The high is a historical event with a timestamp. The spot is a moving read that was already stale the moment it was recorded. Confusing the event with the read is how price pages go wrong. This page keeps them in separate sentences.

2017, a year older than some copy said

Older versions of this page carried a dating error. They described a surge past 1,000 dollars in late 2013, then said the following year brought a peak near 20,000. The following year after 2013 is 2014. The near-20,000 peak arrived in December 2017, three years later ^[2]. The page’s own price list dated it 2017, so the error was internal, and the fix is stated here rather than quietly absorbed.

2018, the drawdown on record

After the 2017 peak, the price fell more than 80 percent from its high during 2018. That drawdown is documented history. It is stated as history, with its year attached. It is not offered as a pattern, a warning, or a promise about any later cycle.

2020 and 2021, the surge on record

Interest rose through the global pandemic period, and the price rose with it into 2020 and 2021. That surge is documented history too. The same sentence applies. Stated, dated, not extrapolated.

The supply schedule under the record

The price record sits on top of a supply schedule that is fixed in protocol. New coins per block drop by half every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years ^[3]. Four halvings have happened, and each is a dated, on-chain event. November 2012. July 2016. May 2020. April 2024. Two independent block-data providers returned identical timestamps and hashes for all four boundary blocks ^[4]. The reward now stands at 3.125 new coins per block.

This page states the schedule because price copy constantly pairs it with predictions. The schedule is a fact. What the price does around each halving is a record of one-time events. The two are kept apart here, and the mining family carries the schedule in full.

Why the record stops being a predictor

Every event above happened exactly once. The 2013 crossing, the 2017 peak, the 2018 drawdown, the 2020 surge, the 2025 high. A sequence of one-time events does not become a law of nature when you line it up. Copy that says otherwise is selling certainty nobody holds.

The honest uses of this record are narrower. It shows the scale of past moves. It shows how far the price has sat from its high, on a given date. It shows that large drawdowns and large surges are both part of the documented history. What it does not show is what happens next, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

The disclosure that belongs here

Older copy carried a line worth keeping, in its plain form: buying cryptocurrency is high-risk. This site states that as a disclosure, not as advice. Risk here is a documented property of the asset’s price record, visible in every section above. What a reader does with that record is the reader’s decision.

Where the rest of the story lives

The history page carries the protocol’s own timeline, halvings included. The what is bitcoin page holds the network basics. The investing page holds what the documents say about holding the asset, and the comparison page sets bitcoin’s floating price against stablecoins’ fixed target. The bitcoin hub is this page’s home root.