Current Bitcoin price with charts
Call bitcoin "digital gold" and you have one thing right: neither can simply be made more of. Gold runs into geology, bitcoin into a protocol that writes the total supply down as 21 million units and leaves it there. After that the resemblance thins out. Gold has been money and raw material for thousands of years, while bitcoin dates from 2009, has no use beyond its own network and no central bank holding a reserve of it. Watch the prices and you see the difference: bitcoin swings by a multiple of anything the metals do. On this page you get the live level in your currency, the full history to zoom through, the price of each fraction right down to a satoshi, and the ratio against gold.
This is one whole bitcoin in the currency you have selected, with the move since the last daily close beside it. Forget trading hours here: the market never shuts, seven days a week, bank holidays and all.
Read it as a swap: this many troy ounces of gold for one bitcoin. Both sides are taken in US dollars per unit, so your currency setting makes no difference to the answer. Rising means bitcoin is pulling ahead of gold, falling means gold is winning the exchange.
All values in EUR (€) per bitcoin. High and low are closing prices here, not the best and worst moments inside a day.
Bitcoin Change over the current month (EUR): Current 65,935.70, High 75,232.62 (21/10/2026), Low 66,694.87 (08/11/2026), Change -10.75 %.Getting something out of what you see and read?
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Think of a bitcoin as 100 million pieces, the smallest of them named after the unknown originator: a satoshi, from Satoshi Nakamoto. Almost nobody buys a whole one. The satoshi line carries eight decimal places because a single satoshi is worth a tiny fraction of a cent today, and two places would reduce it to "0.00".
1 BTC = 1,000 mBTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi
Every row compares the level now with the first daily close inside that window. The date of that starting figure sits in the table, so you can always see which two numbers the percentage came from.
"Since start of records" goes back to where our own series opens, not to the day bitcoin began. That first entry is dated 05/09/2019.
Highest daily closing price of the series: 111,727.17 € on 06/10/2025 — currently -40.99 % away from it.
The live level is fetched from our data provider every minute and kept as a sample. The chart and all the statistics under it work from daily closing prices instead, running 05/09/2019 to 08/11/2026, which comes to 2,606 trading days. So a high or a low here is where a session ended, not the spike in the middle of it, and a crypto exchange may well print a higher peak for the same date. Bitcoin trades on many venues at the same time and small gaps between them never quite close. Anything shown in EUR is converted from the dollar price at the current rate.
What Is the Bitcoin Price?
For gold there is an answer to "what is the price?" that can be pointed at: a published figure, at a stated time, from a named administrator. For bitcoin there is no official reference price. What a portal or a fund shows as "the" price is normally an index built from several exchanges, and which index is the provider’s choice.
| Dimension | LBMA Gold Price | CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Administrator | ICE Benchmark Administration | CF Benchmarks |
| Method | electronic auction, 15 direct participants | calculation over other venues’ trades |
| Frequency | twice daily, 10:30 and 15:00 London | once daily, window 15:00 to 16:00 London |
| Days | not weekends, not UK bank holidays | every day, without interruption |
| How the number arises | the price at which bids and offers balance | the hour in 12 five-minute intervals, volume-weighted median each, mean of the twelve |
LBMA and ICE Benchmark Administration; CF Benchmarks and CME Group, whose sources are Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, itBit, Kraken and LMAX Digital. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
The one sentence worth taking away: for gold the reference price is an event — a moment at which trading happens and a price comes out of it. For bitcoin it is a statistic, a rule applied to other people’s trades. For a reader in Ireland both are also dollar-denominated, so the euro figure on screen carries a currency layer that has nothing to do with bitcoin.
How Far Apart Do Exchanges Actually Trade?
We cannot put a number on it: the continuous series that would answer it sit behind commercial licences. And the weekend is not the same market as the week: on Kaiko data reported in early 2024 the weekend share of volume had fallen to roughly 13%, with spreads more than twice the weekday level. Gold stops and tells you it has stopped; bitcoin keeps going more quietly.
Scarcity: Bitcoin Measured Against Gold
The limit of 21 million bitcoin is part of the consensus rules participants run, not a contract. The block reward halves every 210,000 blocks — exact in blocks, only approximate in calendar days. Measured on 25 October 2026: 20,103,303 BTC in circulation, 95.7% of the limit, and a reward of 3.125 BTC measured over blocks 972,919 to 973,062, where fees were only 0.41% of what miners received.
| Annual rate of new supply | Existing stock | New supply per year | Growth of the stock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold, mine production only | 222,600 t | 3,671.6 t | 1.65% |
| Bitcoin, current issuance | 20,103,303 BTC | approx. 164,250 BTC | 0.82% |
Gold: World Gold Council, stocks at the end of Q2 2026 and mine production for 2025 (a record, up 1%). Bitcoin: 450 BTC a day against the supply measured on 25 October 2026. Both percentages are our own calculation.
Bitcoin’s running issuance rate is below gold’s: 0.82% against 1.65% a year, roughly half. The qualification belongs in the same breath: gold’s 1.65% has been stable for decades, while bitcoin’s 0.82% halves every four years and 2024 was the first year it fell below gold at all. One rate is a plateau, the other a staircase. The next halving comes at block height 1,050,000, 76,938 blocks away on 25 October 2026: around spring 2028, and not a date.
Stock-to-Flow: a Metric, Not a Price Model
Stock-to-flow gives gold about 61 years on mine production and 45 if recycling counts as flow, against about 122 for bitcoin — the metric yields two numbers for the same metal, so it is a definitional choice, not a measurement. The price model built on it has failed: its forecasts for the end of 2021 did not occur, and on 18 June 2022 the price fell through the lower band. The objection is more fundamental still — it works only with supply and contains no demand term.
Divisibility, Custody and the Risks That Really Differ
One bitcoin divides into 100,000,000 satoshi, the protocol holding amounts as whole numbers with eight decimal places. For a metals investor this is where one familiar cost disappears and an unfamiliar one appears: the price per satoshi is the same whether ten or ten million are bought, while with metal the premium per gram rises as the piece gets smaller. The counter-cost is the network fee, which does not depend on the amount but on the space the transaction takes in a block — an auction, measured at the floor of 1 satoshi per virtual byte on 25 October 2026, and orders of magnitude higher when block space is contested.
The risk in self-custody is that it is final: no body can reset a forgotten key, and a confirmed transaction is irreversible. On lost coins, with the date of the estimate attached — the widely quoted Chainalysis figure of roughly 3.7 million BTC dates from 2017 and has been requoted ever since.
What it comes down to: a gold bar in a vault can be stolen, but it cannot be forgotten. A private key cannot be taken without someone reaching it physically or digitally — but it can be forgotten, and then it is gone. Two different risks, not two strengths of one, and not interchangeable in a plan. Worth adding for an Irish holder: the contents of a bank safe deposit box are regularly not covered by deposit protection and not automatically insured by the bank, with liability limited by contract.
Bitcoin and Gold Compared: Is It "Digital Gold"?
This is the most delicate section on a precious metals site, and the way out is numbers rather than adjectives — printing the number that cuts against our own side first. Bitcoin has no application outside its own network, and the usual next step is to contrast that with metals that get used up. So here is the gold figure: technology accounted for 322.8 t of gold demand in 2025 against total demand above 5,000 t, roughly 6.5%.
On correlation, the spread of published values is itself the finding: they run from clearly positive to clearly negative depending on window, data source and method — anything from about +0.70 to −0.88 can be quoted to prove whatever an article set out to say. The rolling twelve-month figure peaked at about +0.41 and has been near zero since 2024. The defensible statement is about the spread: there is no stable correlation between bitcoin and gold, and in 2025 the two moved apart precisely when fears about systemic risk rose.
Amplitude next, with years attached. Bitcoin’s four large setbacks were around −93% (2011), −86% (2013 to 2015), −84% (2017 to 2018) and −77% (2021 to 2022) — shallower from cycle to cycle, which permits no extrapolation. Gold’s worst was smaller at around −70% but ran from January 1980 to July 1999, and silver fell about 90% between January 1980 and June 1982: a precious metals reader does not need bitcoin to see a drawdown of that size.
Like gold, bitcoin pays no interest and no dividend; the entire return is price change, which is the truest thing the two have in common. One asymmetry concerns the buyer: a confirmed bitcoin transaction is irreversible, while buying metal from a dealer sits on a contract with statutory warranty. So bitcoin is not a substitute for gold, and not simply something else entirely either.
What Moves the Bitcoin Price
The list names the mechanisms, not their direction. Every item is a channel through which something can reach the price; none says what the price will do.
- ◆ Supply is fixed in advance and steps down. Unlike a mine, issuance cannot respond to the price: 450 BTC a day, halving at block 1,050,000, currently 0.82% of circulating supply a year.
- ◆ Demand has no industrial floor. With silver and palladium a falling price eventually meets buyers who need the metal; bitcoin has no such buyer of last resort, and gold barely does either at 6.5% technology demand.
- ◆ Access, and who is allowed to buy. The approval of spot products in the United States in January 2024 changed who can hold bitcoin in a regulated account. We deliberately give no flow or asset figures: they change daily and would be stale in any guide.
- ◆ Network conditions. Measured on 25 October 2026 the average block time was 9 minutes 32 seconds against a ten-minute target, with an adjustment of about +4.96% expected at the next retarget. None of this sets the price; it sets what it costs to move a position.
Ways to Buy Bitcoin and What They Cost
Costs are described by type, not by figure: any number printed in a guide is out of date before the guide is. A crypto exchange means buying in an order book — the buyer receives bitcoin itself and pays a trading fee, the bid-ask spread (the invisible part, more than twice as wide at the weekend) and withdrawal fees. A broker usually has no explicit order fee, so the cost sits in the spread, and often there is no option to withdraw the coins at all. Inside the European Union, and therefore in an Irish brokerage account, a classic bitcoin ETF is not possible, because the UCITS framework does not permit a fund on a single asset; what exists are physically backed ETPs or ETNs, legally debt securities, which adds issuer risk and an ongoing charge that accrues whether or not anything happens.
The approval that is routinely retold wrongly: on 10 January 2024 the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved rule changes permitting spot bitcoin exchange-traded products (Release No. 34-99306); trading began on 11 January 2024 with 11 products. Chair Gary Gensler stated the same day: "While we approved the listing and trading of certain spot bitcoin ETP shares today, we did not approve or endorse bitcoin". The decision is widely narrated as a seal of approval; the authority said the opposite in the same breath.
What we deliberately do not claim: three gaps, stated rather than filled. We publish no bitcoin price series of our own and no own correlation against gold — bitcoin is not part of this site’s own minute-level price measurement, so the gold side of such a comparison would be ours and the bitcoin side someone else’s. We give no energy consumption and no carbon figure for the network: the numbers in circulation rest on models with very different assumptions, none of which we could verify against a primary source, so the gap stays visible instead of being filled with a plausible-looking estimate. And we give no everyday exchange spread and no assets-under-management figures for exchange-traded products.
Bitcoin and Tax in Ireland
Ireland has its own rules here, not a copy of any neighbour’s — and unusually, Revenue has published a dedicated guide: Tax and Duty Manual Part 02-01-03, Taxation of Crypto-Asset Transactions, reviewed January 2026, whose starting point is that "no special tax rules for crypto-asset transactions are required". Nothing below is tax advice; figures as at 25 October 2026.
Capital Gains Tax: 33%, and No Clock to Run Down
Revenue states that "CGT is a tax on gains that arise on the disposal of assets such as land, buildings, shares, and crypto-assets". The rate comes from the general law, not the manual: a flat 33% under s. 28(3) TCA 1997 for disposals from 6 December 2012, with no holding period — Revenue’s own example taxes a 2023 purchase sold in 2024 with no test of time. Section 601 exempts the first EUR 1,270 of total chargeable gains for the year, after losses, not transferable and not carried forward — and it covers all gains of the year together, so a share gain can use it up before a crypto gain is reached.
The most dangerous Irish error, and it is about the metal pages: the EUR 2,540 chattel relief in s. 602(2) TCA 1997 does not apply to a crypto-asset, because the section requires tangible movable property. A silver coin sold for EUR 2,000 triggers no capital gains tax at all, while bitcoin sold for EUR 2,000 runs into the 33% after the EUR 1,270 allowance. Two thresholds with different measures: s. 601 is 1,270 on the gain and covers both, s. 602 is 2,540 on the consideration and covers only the metal. How we reached this: from the words of s. 602(2) together with the silence of the crypto manual, which never cites s. 602 and treats the EUR 1,270 as the relief in all three worked examples — an interpretation, not a Revenue statement that s. 602 is inapplicable.
Value-Added Tax: Hedqvist and the One Word
The Court of Justice held in C-264/14 (Hedqvist) that exchanging conventional currency for bitcoin is an exempt financial service, and Revenue applies it with a national citation: exempt under paragraph 6(1)(d) of the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 — but only "where the company performing the exchange acts as principal", a qualification almost every summary drops; mining income is generally outside the scope.
Crypto for crypto, and the line to trading. A swap of one crypto-asset for another is a disposal on general principles, and the derivation is marked honestly because the manual does not address the exchange case expressly: Revenue counts a "sale, transfer, or redemption" as a disposal, and Ireland has no provision putting such a swap outside the charge, unlike Italy or Hungary. The other boundary has no number at all: where dealing becomes a trade, income tax replaces the 33%, and Revenue warns that "the use of the word `trade’ in this context is not sufficient to be regarded as a financial trade for tax purposes". Neither the manual nor s. 551 TCA 1997 gives a threshold or an amount, so this page names none.
Dates, Records and Reporting
Payment and filing dates come apart, which is the commonest practical error: the tax is paid by 15 December for disposals from January to November and by 31 January for December disposals, while the return is due 31 October of the following year. A PAYE taxpayer with a chargeable gain must still file, and records must be kept six years, expressly including wallet data on a personal device. From the 2026 calendar year service providers report under two strands, CARF through s. 891HA TCA 1997 (s. 92 Finance Act 2025) and DAC8 through s. 891M (S.I. No. 584 of 2025), first reports due 31 May 2027 (Revenue eBrief No. 121/26 of 24 August 2026). That is a change in transparency, not in the tax, and it does not remove the individual’s duty to file.
Cash. The Irish money-laundering threshold is EUR 10,000 and applies to cash only (s. 25(1)(i), Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010), in both directions; a trader dealing only by card or transfer is not a designated person at all.
The limit of all of this, stated plainly: in none of the 27 national editions of this guide does a decision, a binding ruling or a judgment exist that treats rhodium, ruthenium or iridium by name — legal definitions naming them exist in a few member states, Czechia, Poland and Slovakia among them, but not a determination of how they are taxed, so every conclusion there rests on metal-neutrality or on the reach of a heading. Crypto-assets are the opposite case, and where this page still has to interpret, as with s. 602, it says so.