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View the historical Bitcoin price by day, week, month or year. The table shows opening and closing price, daily trading volume and percentage price change compared to the previous period.

Sinds de lancering van bitcoin in januari 2009 is de koers altijd erg veranderlijk geweest. Dat zie je ook terug in het overzicht van de historische bitcoin prijs hierboven. 

A few fun facts about the price over the years:

2009: Sinds de introductie in 2009 is de waarde van bitcoin enorm gestegen.

2010: In 2010 an American programmer still bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. We hope they were tasty pizzas, because those 10,000 bitcoins would be worth hundreds of millions of euros today.

2013: Until February 2013, the cryptocurrency price had never exceeded 25 euros. But by the end of 2013 it had climbed above 1,000 euros! This was partly driven by the financial crisis in Cyprus that year.

2014: Disaster struck in early 2014. The market was hit hard by the bankruptcy of the first and by far largest bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt. Gox.

Still, 2014 also brought good news, albeit on a local level. Arnhem started pioneering. In the capital of Gelderland, many shop windows showed stickers reading: We accept Bitcoin. An important milestone in the acceptance of bitcoin as a means of payment.

2015: Een jaar later kreeg Bitstamp, een andere grote beurs, te maken met een grote hack. Er werd 19.000 bitcoin buitgemaakt. Het sentiment in de markt werd negatief en de koers zakte terug tot 180 euro.

2017: By 2017, however, bitcoin had already fought its way back to a value of 1,000 euros. In the second half of that year things suddenly accelerated: amid massive media attention, the price reached its provisional all time high of 17,000 euros.

2018: The year started well, but it soon became clear that 2018 would not be a year of celebration for the price. The value eventually fell to 2,862 euros.

2019: In 2019 begon het herstel. Op 26 juni 2019 bereikte bitcoin met ruim 12.000 euro het hoogste punt van dat jaar. 

2020: Sindsdien daalde de koers weer, maar vooral 12 maart 2020 was een gitzwarte dag voor bitcoin. Alle financiële markten vielen om, en de koers van bitcoin halveerde. De koers bereikte een dieptepunt op 3.600 euro. 

Achteraf was dat het beste moment om bitcoin te kopen. Bitcoin herstelde snel, en in augustus brak de koers door de magische grens van 10.000 euro. 

Dit was het startschot voor de nieuwe bull run. Steeds meer institutionele partijen investeerden in bitcoin, en rond de kerst verbrak bitcoin het oude record van 17.000 euro. 

2021: Dat was nog maar het begin, want op 13 maart 2021 brak bitcoin door de nieuwe psychologische grens van maar liefst 50.000 euro.

On 14 April 2021 cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went public on the US stock market. That day bitcoin reached a provisional peak of 54,000 euros.

Vervolgens zien we in mei dat er in China hardhandig wordt opgetreden tegen bitcoin mining. Zowel de hashrate als de bitcoin prijs maakt een flink dip: 26.700 euro. 

In juli wordt de bullish trend echter voortgezet en in november 2021 bereikt de koers de hoogte stand ooit: 57.225 euro. 

At the end of 2021 the Federal Reserve announced it would start tapering its bond purchases, which would slowly withdraw liquidity from the financial markets. The prospect of less liquidity sent the bitcoin price into decline.

2022: can rightly be called the "bitcoin winter". Some notable events during the year include the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD and the swift downfall of FTX. By the end of December the price hit a low of 15,746 euros.

2023: In early 2023 bitcoin started showing signs of recovery and by April the price was back above 27,000 euros. The price ended the year around 40,000 euros.

2024: 10 January 2024 marks a historic moment for bitcoin. On this day 11 bitcoin spot ETFs were approved. Suddenly an enormous amount of capital had access to bitcoin.

In de eerste maand na lancering vloeit direct meer dan $4 miljard aan kapitaal in deze nieuwe Bitcoin-fondsen​. In maart  2024 bereikt bitcoin een nieuwe all-time high (~66.000 euro). Voor het eerst wordt het oude hoogtepunt uit 2021 overtroffen.

On 6 November 2024 Trump was elected president of the US. Why is that so important? Because Trump positioned himself as crypto-friendly during his campaign. So, not entirely unexpectedly, we saw a bitcoin rally right after.

On 5 December 2024 the magical $100,000 mark was broken, and on 17 December the €100,000 mark was broken too.

2025: Despite the pro-Bitcoin administration, the recognition of Bitcoin as a strategic reserve and Trump's literal announcement of turning the US into a 'Bitcoin superpower', a few grains of sand end up in the engine. Not least because many people decide to sell at the psychological 100K mark. But also because the bitcoin price faces some macro-economic headwinds following the tariff announcement. Markets don't like uncertainty, and by April 2025 the price has corrected to ~72,000 euros.

After a brief dip in early April 2025, Bitcoin recovered following the swearing-in of the new SEC chair. Paul Atkins, a well-known crypto advocate, was confirmed by the Senate on 9 April and officially sworn in on 21 April 2025, succeeding Gary Gensler.

Between April and August 2025 we then saw a significant and sustained rally, with a peak of over $124,000 in August. Mainly driven by a combination of political shifts in the US and strong institutional demand.

In October 2025 bitcoin reaches a provisional peak of ~$126,000 (~€107,000).

On 10 October the bitcoin price went through an enormously sharp drop of about $12,000 within a single trading day. The move triggered billions of dollars in liquidations on derivatives markets. This event laid the groundwork for a long-running correction. Within a few weeks bitcoin was trading more than 30% below its peak of nearly $126,000.

2026: This bearish period continued into early 2026. The price dropped considerably in the first quarter of 2026, but the worst now seems to be behind us. In April and early May we are seeing clear signs of recovery. Analysts have yet to agree on how the rest of the year will play out.

The bitcoin price is still characterised by big fluctuations. This is called price volatility. A frequently asked question is why the price rises and falls so sharply. To understand this, it helps to compare the total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies with other financial markets.

You calculate bitcoin's market cap by multiplying the number of bitcoins by the current price. In 2021, bitcoin broke through a magic threshold for the first time: a total market value of more than 1 trillion euros. That's a 1 with 12 zeros, and it sounds like an enormous amount. But at that moment Apple's market value was still twice as large as bitcoin's. And the entire US stock market is many times bigger still.

Compared to other markets, the crypto market is therefore still very small. That means relatively little capital is needed to move the price. On top of that, many day traders are active. The mood of the day, but also the news of the day, can already cause considerable swings.

Want to compare the total value of the crypto market with the total stock market? Then it looks roughly like the image below. The blue blocks represent the stock market, the green blocks the crypto market.