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Been looking back at bitcoin's price journey and it's wild how far we've come. The bitcoin price in 2010 was just $0.09 per coin, which sounds almost unbelievable now. Then you had that massive jump to around $687 by 2012, followed by the crazy volatility through 2018 when it hit $20K before crashing hard.
Fast forward to 2021 and we saw it touch $49K, and honestly the trajectory over the past few years has been pretty interesting to track. We're currently sitting around $80K in 2026, which shows how much the asset has matured and attracted serious capital. Pretty crazy to think about those early days when bitcoin price in 2010 was basically pocket change.
The whole arc from less than a dollar to six figures really tells you something about adoption and institutional interest in crypto. Each cycle seems to push new all-time highs, and the volatility has gotten somewhat more predictable with each passing year.