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Just looked at BTC's year-end closing prices over the past 15 years and it's wild how much the trajectory has changed. Started at basically nothing - $0.30 back in 2010, then slowly crawled to a few hundred by mid-2010s. The real jump happened around 2017 when we hit $14k on december 31, which felt massive at the time.
Then we got the 2018 crash down to $3,742, but the recovery after that was insane. By 2020 year-end we were already at $29k, and 2021 saw us touch $46k. The 2022 bear market brought it back down to $16.5k, but the recovery was quick - $42k in 2023, nearly doubled to $93k by 2024.
What's interesting is that bitcoin price on december 31 last year (2025) settled around $87.9k, so we're hovering in that range now. Pretty crazy to think about the volatility when you look at the full picture - from cents to nearly 6 figures. Makes you wonder what the price will look like by end of this year.