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Bitcoin BTC

Cached 22 Oct 2026, 12:59 UTC

$81,575.80▼ -2.67%24h

At the last cached snapshot, 1 BTC was about $81,575.80, £60,869.41, or €72,614.70.

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Cached 22 Oct 2026, 12:59 UTC. Figures may differ from what an exchange actually pays you. This is not financial advice.

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Market cap

$1.64T

Market cap 24h

▼ -2.66%

Volume 24h

$28.12B

Volume 24h change

▲ +27.54%

Circulating supply

19,638,231

Total supply

20,101,925

Rank

#1

Change over time

15m
▼ -0.14%
30m
▼ -0.12%
1h
▼ -0.17%
6h
▼ -0.80%
12h
▼ -3.10%
24h
▼ -2.67%
7d
▲ +1.85%
30d
-
1y
-

Percent change for Bitcoin across several time windows
15m	30m	1h	6h	12h	24h	7d	30d	1y
▼ -0.14%	▼ -0.12%	▼ -0.17%	▼ -0.80%	▼ -3.10%	▼ -2.67%	▲ +1.85%	-	-

All-time high

$126,173.00 on 6 Oct 2025 · ▼ -35.31% from ATH

About Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a public ledger and a scarce digital asset. Nobody can create extra coins by logging into a company dashboard. EasyCryptoGuides treats the price as context, not a command — start with how keys and wallets work before you treat a ticker as news.

Read: What is Bitcoin in plain language

Glossary: Bitcoin

A scarce digital asset on a public ledger, with rules no single company can rewrite on a whim.

Guides

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A perpetual is a contract with no expiry, not a bigger coin

A perpetual future tracks a coin’s price and never comes due. You do not hold the coin. You hold a contract with a venue that can liquidate the margin. The CFTC’s October letters are about who may list that shape. They are not a lesson in when to press it.EasyCryptoGuides · 17 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

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A crypto kiosk is a cash window, not a wallet

A bitcoin ATM is not a bank and not a hardware wallet. Hawaii stopped the cash-in side on 1 October 2026. Thirty-four states then told Coinme to leave the kiosk business. The machine was always a money transmitter with a spread.EasyCryptoGuides · 17 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

News

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Ledger devices from one reseller had an extra part. The chip was not the hole.

Buyers from a Southeast Asian reseller were told not to set unused devices up. Researcher estimates of the loss run from the tens of millions into the mid-nineties. Ledger has not confirmed a total. The Secure Element was not the clipboard.EasyCryptoGuides · 9 Oct 2026, 16:00 UTC · 4 min read

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The CFTC asked questions about a crypto exchange licence. Questions are not the licence.

On 5 October 2026 the CFTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The Federal Register printed it on 13 October. Comments run to 14 December. There is no rule text in force.EasyCryptoGuides · 5 Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC · 3 min read

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FinCEN withdrew two wallet proposals that had never taken effect.

On 5 October 2026 FinCEN withdrew the December 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal and the October 2023 plan to treat crypto mixing as a primary money-laundering concern. Both withdrawals took effect on 6 October. Neither draft had ever been in force.EasyCryptoGuides · 5 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC · 3 min read

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Community banks sued the OCC over crypto trust charters. A complaint is not a revocation.

On 2 October 2026 the Independent Community Bankers of America sued the OCC over the March chartering rule and Interpretive Letter 1176. The suit asks the court to vacate Protego’s conditional approval. It has not done that.EasyCryptoGuides · 2 Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC · 4 min read

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