← ChronicleBefore Bitcoin
How Digital Money Became Possible
- Years
- 1976–2008
- Length
- About 7 min
Where this chapter sits on the curve
BTC month-end close · log scale · data from Bitstamp, cross-checked against Binance BTCUSDT over 109 months (max deviation 1.8%) · as of 2026-08-27
Figures are month-end closes, so the peaks here sit below the intraday highs — 2017 reads $13,880, not the 19,800 usually quoted.