Bitcoin golden physical coin illustration on United States Dollar banknotes. Visual representations of the digital Cryptocurrency Bitcoin with the USD bill. Bitcoin with the symbol BTC, XBT is a popular digital currency that showed growth and is widely spread, accepted from banks, markets and other services and shops as ways of payments. The exchange rate today for 1 bitcoin blockchain is 34.588 US Dollar. On January 7, 2021 Bitcoin's price crossed 40,000 for the first time and the next day on January 8, 2021 Bitcoin traded with the historical record price as high as $41,973 while the next day Price briefly fell as much as 26% but pared losses to trade around $33,400 whipping $200 billion of trade value from the cryptocurrency market in 24 hours according to American Financial media. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 13, 2020 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)