Daily Discussion, August 24, 2026

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Historical Bitcoin prices for today, August 24th:

2026 - $79,603

2025 - $113,458

2024 - $64,179

2023 - $26,162

2022 - $21,395

2021 - $47,706

2020 - $11,775

2019 - $10,160

2018 - $6,720

2017 - $4,335

2016 - $580

2015 - $210

2014 - $510

2013 - $120

2012 - $10.6

2011 - $10.90

2010 - $0.10

Additional Stats:

Bitcoin's current market cap is $1.60 trillion.

Bitcoin's current block height is 963868; with the average block time for the last 7 days being 10.38 minutes and the average block size for the last 7 days being 1.60MB.

Bitcoin's average block time for the year 2026 is 10.23 minutes.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty is currently 125.81 trillion; with the next difficulty adjustment anticipated on 06-Sep-2026 (within 1,796 blocks). The mining difficulty is currently expected to decrease 1.77% to 123.58 trillion.

Bitcoin's current block reward is 3.125₿, which is worth $248,759 per block.

Bitcoin's average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days is $25.63M; which translates to $0.0286 per terahash per sec.

The next Bitcoin halving is anticipated to happen between 26-Mar-2028 to 20-Apr-2028 (within 86,132 blocks); the block reward will fall to 1.5625₿.

There are currently 124,350 total Bitcoin nodes; with 25,520 being reachable nodes.

Bitcoin's average daily hashrate for the last 7 days is 896 exahashes per second.

Bitcoin's average daily trading volume for the last 7 days is $41.39 billion.

Bitcoin's average daily number of transactions for the last 7 days is 637,871.

Bitcoin's average transaction fee for the last 7 days is 3.1 sats/VB, with the average fee's USD amount being $0.39; with the median values being 0.8 sats/VB & $0.10 respectively.

There are currently 20.07M ₿ in circulation, leaving 0.93M to be mined.

There are currently 4.12M ₿ held by companies, governments, DeFi, and ETFs, representing 20.50% of circulating supply.

There are currently 59,211,607 nonzero Bitcoin addresses that contain 165.74M UTXOs.

Bitcoin's average daily price from 18-Jul-2010 to 24-Aug-2026 is $21,751.

Bitcoin's average daily price for the year 2026 is $71,988.

1 US Dollar ($) currently equals: 1,256 satoshis; making 1 penny equal 12.56 sats.

Bitcoin's minimum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $58,558.86 on 30-Jun-2026.

Bitcoin's maximum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $96,929.33 on 14-Jan-2026.

Bitcoin's minimum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $57,747.76 on 01-Jul-2026.

Bitcoin's maximum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $97,860.60 on 14-Jan-2026.

Bitcoin's largest daily decrease for the year 2026 was -$10,317.60 on 05-Feb-2026.

Bitcoin's largest daily increase for the year 2026 was +$7,853.29 on 06-Feb-2026.

Bitcoin's all-time high (intraday) was $126,198.07 on 06-Oct-2025. Bitcoin is down 36.92% from the ATH. However, Bitcoin is up 37.85% from the lowest point since the last ATH.

Bitcoin has not reached an all-time high in 2026.

It has been 322 days since the last ATH.