Bitcoin (BTC) Live Price and charts Today

• Central African Republic adopted bitcoin as legal tender alongside the CFA franc.
• The bitcoin price fell to $31,324, as a result of a collapse of a UST stablecoin experiment named Terra, with bitcoin down more than 50% since the November 2021 high.
• The Celsius Network (a decentralized finance loan company) halted withdrawals and resulted in the bitcoin price falling below $20,000.

• El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced his plans to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, which made it the first country in the world to do so.
• In April, the biggest crypto exchange in USA, Coinbase, went public at a valuation of nearly $100 billion.
• BTC All-time-high $67,617 in Nov 2021.

• Bitcoin crashed from nearly $10,000 to below $4,000 in two days.
• In May, Bitcoin halved, resulting in a block reward of 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC.

After an unprecedented boom in 2017, the price of bitcoin fell by about 65% from 6 January to 6 February 2018. Subsequently, nearly all other cryptocurrencies followed bitcoin's crash. By September 2018, cryptocurrencies collapsed 80% from their peak in January 2018, making the 2018 cryptocurrency crash worse than the Dot-com bubble's 78% collapse. By 26 November, bitcoin also fell by 80% from its peak, having lost almost one-third of its value in the previous week.

• Bitcoin went ‘crazy’, and its price went from below $1000 at the beginning of the year to nearly $20,000 at the end of the year.
• ICO Boom.

• Bitfinex, one of the biggest bitcoin exchange at that time, was hacked and lost about 120k BTC.
• Bitcoin second halving, block reward reduced from 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC.

• Coinbase raised US$75 million as part of a Series C funding round, which broke the previous record for a bitcoin company.
• The number of merchants accepting bitcoin exceeded 100k.

• The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Got, collapsed.
• On march 2014, Warren Buffett called bitcoin a "mirage"

• Few month ago, in the end of 2012, Bitcoin first halving happened, and the block reward was reduced from 50 BTC to 25 BTC.
• Bitcoin blockchain was temporarily split into 2 chains and it looks 6 hours to restore with the help from miners downgraded to version 0.7 of the bitcoin software. At that time, Bitcoin price on Mt. Got dipped by 23% to 37 USD.

BitPay was founded to provide mobile checkout services to companies wanting to accept bitcoins as a form of payment. Later this year and next year, more and more institutions started to accept bitcoin as a payment.

A Florida man negotiated to pay 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas priced at about $25. That transaction valued the price of one Bitcoin at roughly a fourth of a cent. This event also makes May 22 as the Bitcoin Pizza Day for crypto-fans.

The Bitcoin blockchain was officially launched when the first Bitcoin block, the genesis block, was created on Jan. 3, 2009. In the first seven months following Bitcoin's launch, Satoshi reportedly mined up to 1.1 million Bitcoins.

A paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list. This paper detailed methods of using a peer-to-peer network to generate what was described as "a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust".

The domain name bitcoin.org was registered.