Daily last observed price is Free. Hourly history is on Tape, with gaps preserved and the USD / USDT source seam marked.
$81,416 price · USD then USDT · Binance · USDT on Oct-22 2026, the last day in this build, read from a public record, published by askthetape.com.
Follow the traded bitcoin price from the early market. The daily point is the last price actually observed in each UTC day. The hourly view retains every priced hour and breaks where no price was observed.
| source | Mt.Gox and Bitstamp trades via bitcoincharts / Wayback, then our Binance hourly archive. |
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| history | BTC hourly price since 2010-07-17 23:00 UTC; Mt.Gox then Bitstamp (USD), Binance (USDT) from 2017-08-17 04:00 UTC. Empty trading hours remain gaps: 3,455 explicit no-price hours in the joined carrier. The quote currencies are shown separately; no USD/USDT peg correction is applied. Mt.Gox and Bitstamp trades via bitcoincharts / Wayback, then our Binance hourly archive. |
| cadence | Daily: last observed hourly close per UTC day and quote; a day with no trade has no point. On the source-seam day the USD and USDT legs remain separate. |
| quote seam | USD becomes USDT at 2017-08-17 04:00 UTC; this is a source change, not a change in bitcoin's value. |
| access | Daily Free; hourly browser views on Tape. This archive is not offered as a download. |
| historical views | Browser-only historical views retain the source dates and units. |
| this build | data to Oct-22 2026 |
| policy | exchange archives · no gap filling · browser views only · read on the site · not exported: this page is drawn from someone else's archive |
The chart itself is drawn in the browser: turn JavaScript on to hover a day, pick a window and draw your line. The numbers above come from the last build, Oct-23 2026 21:24Z.
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