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Bitcoin today
Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $79,165.2 on Binance Futures, down 2.56% over the last 24 hours. Today's range is $78,210.3 to $81,953.7, and the price is around the middle.
24-hour volume on BTCUSDT is $16.71B, number 1 of 519 USDT perpetuals by volume, with $7.39B in open interest. Funding is +0.0033% per period: longs pay shorts, so more traders are betting on a rise.
Its market cap is $1.62T (rank 1 on CoinGecko) and fully diluted value $1.62T. 20.1M BTC circulate out of 21M maximum supply (96%). The all-time high was $126,080.0 on 6 October 2025; the price is 37% below it. Over 7 days -0.6%, 30 days -4.6%, a year -29.5%.
OpenTrades hasn't traded BTC since 26 October 2026. If it does, members who follow the coin get the same position in their own account within seconds.
Figures update on their own · 30 Oct, 04:11. Not investment advice.
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Each bar is one funding payment. Above zero, longs paid shorts; below zero, shorts paid longs. A long run on one side shows where the crowd is leaning on BTC.
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It enables peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions without intermediaries like banks or governments, operating on a blockchain secured by Proof of Work mining and the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm.
With a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins and programmatic halvings every four years that reduce miner rewards, Bitcoin is designed as a deflationary digital asset often called "digital gold." Its value stems from solving the double-spending problem without trusted intermediaries, creating the first truly scarce digital asset with censorship resistance and permissionless access that no government, corporation, or individual can control.
Bitcoin operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer network where transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, distributed across thousands of computers globally. Transactions are grouped into blocks added approximately every 10 minutes through mining, where specialized computers compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles.
Bitcoin has achieved mainstream adoption through multiple vectors. The January 2024 SEC approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs opened Bitcoin investment to traditional finance participants, and corporations like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are using Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to protect against currency debasement, offering MSTR holders amplified exposure to Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like Ordinals, which emerged in January 2023 to enable NFT-like functionality directly on Bitcoin, and BRC-20 tokens, an experimental standard for creating fungible tokens using Ordinal inscriptions. BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance) represents emerging financial applications extending beyond Bitcoin's traditional role, with protocols like Babylon allowing Bitcoin holders to stake BTC to secure Proof of Stake chains.
Launched 3 January 2009
BTC questions
What is the BTC price today?
Bitcoin is at $79,165.2 on the Binance Futures BTCUSDT perpetual, -2.56% in 24 hours (range $78,210.3 to $81,953.7). The page updates on its own.
What is Bitcoin's market cap?
$1.62T, rank 1 by market cap on CoinGecko. If every token existed today (fully diluted) it would be $1.62T.
How many BTC are in circulation?
20.1M BTC, total supply 20.1M, maximum 21M.
What is the BTC funding rate now?
Funding is +0.0033% per period: longs pay shorts, so more traders are betting on a rise. Funding is paid between traders every period, not to the exchange.
What leverage can I use on BTC?
Binance Futures allows up to 150× on BTCUSDT for small positions; bigger positions get lower limits. OpenTrades' default for members is 20× with a small margin per trade.
Has OpenTrades traded BTC?
OpenTrades hasn't traded BTC since 26 October 2026. If it does, members who follow the coin get the same position in their own account within seconds.
Where can I trade BTC?
As the BTCUSDT USDT perpetual on Binance Futures, and on Bitget USDT perpetuals. OpenTrades copies trades on Binance and Bitget into members' own accounts.
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Price, volume, funding and open interest: Binance Futures. Market cap, supply, description and links: CoinGecko. Trade record: the OpenTrades account. Not investment advice; futures trading is high risk.