Every all-time high Bitcoin has printed

The first thing the table makes plain is how few peaks there are. Bitcoin has been traded publicly since 2010, and in that time the market has printed only a handful of distinct closing highs. The early ones are separated by months; the later ones by years. That spacing is not an accident of the data. It reflects the fact that each new high required the market to absorb the entire supply overhang created by the previous one — every holder who bought near the old peak and was waiting to get out.

The second thing is the asymmetry between the peaks themselves. The 2010 and 2011 highs are measured in cents and single dollars. The 2013 highs are measured in hundreds. The 2017 peak crossed nineteen thousand dollars, and the 2021 and 2024 peaks crossed sixty and seventy thousand. Read as a sequence, the record looks like compounding; read as a series of events, it looks like a market that repeatedly repriced itself from scratch. Both readings are accurate, and the difference between them is the difference between a chart and a life.

The third thing is the one most often missed. A peak is only knowable in retrospect. Nobody ringing a bell announces that the highest price in history has just been paid; the market simply stops going up, and the fact that the previous day was the top becomes clear only after a decline has begun. Every figure in this table is a fact about the past, and none of them could have been acted on at the time. That is not a reason to ignore the record. It is a reason to read it as a description of how the market has behaved rather than as a set of signals.

The after all-time highs page takes each of these peaks and measures what followed, and the recovery time page measures how long the market took to regain each one. Together they are the honest counterweight to the headline numbers in this table.