BTCUSD | Bitcoin Price today, Chart and News - Decrypt

Coin Prices

FLUID

$3.28

-4.40%

Price data by

DecryptBitcoin

Enter a coin name to search

Bitcoin

btc

$91,473

-2.366%

Jan 3rd, 2009

Smart Contract Platform

Layer 1 (L1)

FTX Holdings

Proof of Work (PoW)

24-Hour Range

$89,426

$93,689

Low

High

Market Cap (Mcap)

Rank

Mcap

$1.83T

Fully Diluted Mcap

$1.83T

Supply

Circulating

19,960,784

Total

21,000,000

Created On

Jan 3rd, 2009

All Time High (ATH)

ATH

$126.08k

ATH Change

-27.52%

ATH Date

Oct 6th, 2025

Total Value Locked (TVL)

TVL

N/A

MCap to TVL Ratio

N/A

FDV to TVL Ratio

N/A

Enter a coin name to search

Bitcoin Chart

Price

Volume

Market Cap

Other coins

Learn about Bitcoin

What Is a Layer-1 Blockchain? The Base Layer Powering Bitcoin and Crypto

Layer-1 blockchains are the base networks that secure and record every crypto transaction, powering Bitcoin, Ethereum, and beyond.

What Is Q-Day? The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Explained

Experts warn quantum computers could someday forge Bitcoin’s digital signatures, allowing unauthorized transactions.

Bitcoin News

Dec 11, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin Isn’t Buying What the Fed Is Selling: Here’s What the Charts Suggest Happens Next

The crypto market isn't buying what the Fed is selling. Despite the Federal Reserve delivering its widely expected 25-basis-point rate cut to the 3.5%-3.75% range on Wednesday, Bitcoin and Ethereum are both in the red, with the broader crypto market sitting at $3.07 trillion—down 2.25% from yesterday. While traditional markets rallied on the news, crypto took a different path. The S&P 500 closed up 0.67% and the Nasdaq gained 0.42%, but digital assets hemorrhaged value. The disconnect may sugges...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 5 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Business

Some Bitcoin Buying Firms Are Selling as Losses Pile Up on Paper: Report

With Bitcoin hovering around the $90,000 mark on Wednesday, a majority of Bitcoin-buying firms faced unrealized losses, according to a 122-page report published by Bitcoin Treasuries. The data provider also found that five firms, including miner Hut 8 and treasury firm Sequans, collectively sold 1,900 Bitcoin last month, as the asset’s price fell as low as $81,000. Still, on a net basis, private and public companies stacked 10,750 Bitcoin last month. “This latest growth is due to a small number...

by André Beganski · 3 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Law and Order

Spanish Police Dismantle Network Linked to Crypto ‘Wrench Attack’ Murder

Spanish Policía Nacional officers have dismantled an organization allegedly involved in the kidnapping and murder of a man in Málaga earlier this year, the agency announced on Wednesday. In April, the group assaulted a couple and, after shooting the man in the leg, forced them both into a house where they were held for several hours. The kidnappers reportedly attempted to access the victims’ digital wallets to steal cryptocurrency. The woman was eventually released and contacted authorities, whi...

by Callan Quinn · 2 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Law and Order

Crypto Is Now Central to Venezuela’s Economy—And Poses Sanctions Risks: TRM

New research suggests Venezuela has become increasingly dependent on crypto as the United States and its allies escalate a push for regime change in the isolated nation. Nearly a decade of economic isolation, aggressive international sanctions, and economic collapse have made crypto tokens—particulary, Tether’s USDT stablecoin—central to the everyday life of Venezuelans, according to a new report from TRM Labs. The report also underscores how Venezuela’s largely unregulated crypto economy has po...

by Sander Lutz · 3 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Law and Order

US DoJ Indicts Ukrainian Over Russia-Linked Cyberattack Groups That Paid in Crypto

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued two indictments against a Ukrainian individual accused of being involved with two Russian state-sanctioned cyberattack groups. 33-year-old Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, a Ukrainian national who was extradited to the United States earlier this year, is alleged to have provided support to the CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn (CARR) and NoName. Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat Two Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Criminal Hacking Groups Ukrainian Natio...

by Simon Chandler · 4 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Opinion

Morning Minute: VanEck Leans Into 'Degen' Culture with New ETF

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors tumble after Powell cuts the rate; BTC -2% at $90,250 Democrats accept portion of Market Structure bill, send 3-page counter VanEck leans into Degen culture with new Degen Economy ETF Meteora announces $10M in MET token buybacks, will continue Fogo shares ICO...

by Tyler Warner · 6 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Markets

Here’s Why Bitcoin Is Falling Despite the Fed's Rate Cut

Bitcoin continues to trend lower even as the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday. “Fed officials used hedged language as they analyzed economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and the potential path of interest rates,” John Haar, managing director of Bitcoin financial services firm Swan Bitcoin, told Decrypt. He added that the Fed's "reserve management purchases" of T-Bills this week, with an expectation to buy $40 billion over 30 days, "reflects the Fed'...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Dec 11, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin Traders Bet on 2026 Boom, Not a Santa Rally, Following Fed Rate Cut

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week is aligning with a steady spike in bullish options bets. The most active strike in the options market is the $100,000 call option expiring on December 26, with over 18,360 bullish contracts open compared to just 2,540 bearish puts, according to a Wednesday tweet from options analytics platform Laevitas. However, the structure of these bets suggests traders are positioning for a limited, tactical bounce rather than an unbounded Santa rally. The la...

by Akash Girimath · 2 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Law and Order

Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Agrees to Plead Guilty, Hit With $7.5 Million in Penalties

Paxful Holdings Inc., the firm behind a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange that shuttered in 2023, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges and pay a $4 million criminal penalty to the U.S. Department of Justice. This comes in addition to a $3.5 million civil penalty handed down by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Tuesday. The company facilitated approximately $3 billion in trades between 2017 and 2019, earning over $29 million in revenue while knowingly enabling criminal activity, a...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Business

Elon Musk's SpaceX Moves Bitcoin Ahead of Potential Record IPO

Privately held aerospace company SpaceX moved more than $94 million in Bitcoin on Wednesday, according to on-chain data, ahead of reported plans to go public in 2026. Bitcoin addresses labeled as belonging to SpaceX by blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence transferred around 1,021 BTC in total to two addresses, broken into amounts of 407 BTC and 614 BTC. “SpaceX just transferred $94 million of BTC. They have been moving around $100 million of BTC every week for around the past two month...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Business

'National Security' at Risk If MSCI Excludes Crypto Treasuries, Warns Bitcoin Giant Strategy

Strategy argued in a letter sent to MSCI on Wednesday that excluding a number of crypto-buying firms from its indices could impact America’s ability to protect itself. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm raised national security concerns in its 12-page appeal to the global financial giant, pointing to the Trump administration’s pro-crypto stance. “MSCI should decline to implement its proposal,” the letter states. “It would undermine the federal government’s goal of promoting digital assets wh...

by André Beganski · 3 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Markets

GameStop Stock Falls After Bitcoin Holdings Lose Value, Firm Says It Could Sell BTC

Video game retailer GameStop's stock has fallen more than 3% so far on Wednesday after the company revealed that its quarterly sales and profits were stagnant—and that its Bitcoin treasury has dropped in value alongside BTC’s sinking price. GameStop bought $512 million worth of Bitcoin in May, making it one of the many publicly traded U.S. companies adopting digital asset treasuries. GME shares had been on a gradual 30% decline since that moment until its late Tuesday earnings call, from $33 to...

by Ryan S. Gladwin · 3 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin, Ethereum Waver as Fed Delivers Third Rate Cut

The price of Bitcoin and Ethereum wavered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark rate by 0.25%, while the regulator said it would resume its purchase of Treasury bills. But it's worth noting the Fed decision wasn’t unanimous, with two members of the Federal Open Markets Committee voting to keep rates unchanged and another advocating for an even larger cut. Bitcoin changed hands around $92,000 following the Fed’s decision, down 1.4% over the past day, according to crypto price...

by André Beganski · 4 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Markets

Silk Road Wallets Allegedly Connected to Ross Ulbricht Move Millions in Bitcoin

A cluster of wallets labeled with connections to shuttered dark web marketplace Silk Road—and allegedly tied to pardoned platform creator Ross Ulbricht—were active for the first time in at least five years on Tuesday, sending millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin to a fresh wallet address. Labeled by blockchain intelligence firm Arkham Intelligence, the wallets once held as much as 442,000 BTC in 2012. Now they are down to around 416 Bitcoin valued at $38.25 million, based on today’s Bitcoin pr...

by Logan Hitchcock · 3 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Opinion

Morning Minute: JPMorgan Says No Crypto Winter

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors pump then fall pre-FOMC, ETH leads +6%; BTC at $92,000 PNC Bank enables Bitcoin spot trading for Private Bank clients Senator Cory Booker warns Crypto Market Structure bill won’t pass without more Dem representation Meteora shares updates to its DLMM, teases...

by Tyler Warner · 6 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Coins

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood: Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Will Be ‘Disrupted’

Famed tech investor Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, has argued that Bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle will be “disrupted” as institutions have increasingly piled into the asset. Where Bitcoin “regularly dropped 75-90% in its early days,” Wood said in an interview with Fox Business Tuesday, more recently, “The volatility’s going down.” “We think that the move by institutions into this new asset class is going to prevent much more of a decline,” she added, arguing that, “We may have seen the low...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

Dec 10, 2025

Business

Twenty One Capital Drops in NYSE Debut as Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face ‘Broader Re-Pricing’

Twenty One Capital began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as XXI on Tuesday after completing its merger with Cantor Equity Partners, entering the market with more than 43,000 BTC worth almost $4 billion already on its balance sheet, primed in a position among the world’s largest public corporate holders of the asset. Yet its trading debut was met with sharp selling, with XXI shares spending the session at roughly $11, putting it well below Cantor Equity Partners’ final pre-merger close nea...

by Vince Dioquino · 4 min read

Dec 9, 2025

Business

Bitcoin 'After Dark' ETF Would Bet on BTC as Wall Street Sleeps

A company called Tidal Trust II filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday for an exchange-traded fund that would only offer Bitcoin exposure when U.S. markets are closed. The fund, dubbed the Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF, would also hold short-term U.S. Treasuries during the day, according to the filing. As a result, the ETF would mirror Bitcoin’s overnight return profile, for investors based in the U.S. Unlike spot Bitcoin ETFs, which were appr...

by André Beganski · 3 min read

Dec 9, 2025

Markets

Zcash Founder Zooko Wilcox Joins ZEC Treasury Firm as Privacy Coin Surges

Cypherpunk Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday that Zooko Wilcox, founder of prominent privacy coin Zcash and former CEO of Electric Coin Company, has joined the Zcash treasury firm as a strategic advisor. The move preceded a sizable surge in Cypherpunk’s stock price Tuesday, all while Zcash itself continues to rebound after a recent sell-off. Cypherpunk said in a press release that Wilcox will guide the company's development of self-sovereign digital systems focused on privacy and freedom. Cyph...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

Dec 9, 2025

Markets

JPMorgan Analysts Doubt Crypto Winter Is Coming, Despite 'Meaningful' Bitcoin Sell-Off

JPMorgan analysts signaled on Tuesday that Bitcoin and other digital assets could have more room to run, despite fears sparked by the original cryptocurrency’s plunge over the last month. Although some onlookers may be convinced that crypto prices are primed for prolonged downturn following Bitcoin’s fall as low as $81,000 last month, the investment bank doesn’t foresee a so-called crypto winter brewing on the horizon. “The sell-off this past month triggered worries throughout crypto media and m...

by André Beganski · 3 min read