Bitcoin Historical Data Project (2012 - 2021)

Bitcoin is the longest running and most well known cryptocurrency, first released as open source in 2009 by the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin serves as a decentralized medium of digital exchange, with transactions verified and recorded in a public distributed ledger (the blockchain) without the need for a trusted record keeping authority or central intermediary. Transaction blocks contain a SHA-256 cryptographic hash of previous transaction blocks, and are thus "chained" together, serving as an immutable record of all transactions that have ever occurred. As with any currency/commodity on the market, bitcoin trading and financial instruments soon followed public adoption of bitcoin and continue to grow. Included here is historical bitcoin market data at 1-min intervals for select bitcoin exchanges where trading takes place.

Insights:

Total Closing balance (32,058,994,646.46% increase) and Total Opening (32,184,191,712.77% increase) both trended up between 2011 and 2021.

Across all metrics, Total Opening balance had the most interesting recent trend and started trending up on 2016, rising by 2,820.92% (5,551,306,335.83) in 5 years.

Total Volume (BTC) dropped from 4,698,752.66 to 851,118.27 during its steepest decline between 2017 and 2021.

Total Low and Total High fell by 14,508,071.53 and 10,702,620.68 respectively in the last Year.

Sum of Volume_(Currency) averaged 13,720,115,018.77 per year between 2011 and 2021.

Sum of Volume_(Currency) peaked at 35,119,515,058.06 in 2021, after hitting a low point of 425.32 in 2011.

Across all 11 Years, Sum of Volume_(Currency) ranged from 425.32 to 35,119,515,058.06.