Bitcoin Price on April 20, 2024
2024-04-20
Market Data
- Close
- $64,990
- Open
- $63,847
- High
- $65,450
- Low
- $63,136
- 1-day change
- +1.83%
- 7-day change
- +1.46%
- 30-day change
- -0.76%
- 1-year change
- +138.46%
- All-time high as of this date
- $73,121
- Drawdown from ATH
- -11.12%
- Cycle stage
- Bull market
Halving Era 5
- Block reward
- 3.125 BTC
- Days since last halving
- Halving day
On-Chain
- Hash rate
- 558.27 PH/s
- Difficulty
- 8.639e+13
- Active addresses
- 455,683
- Transactions
- 631,001
Market Sentiment
Fear & Greed Index: 66 (Greed)
Major Events
Fourth Bitcoin Halving
The fourth Bitcoin halving occurs at block 840,000, reducing the block reward from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. The network transitions to Halving Era 5. The same block sees the launch of the Runes protocol, triggering a brief but extreme fee spike.
halving · positive
Runes Protocol Launch
Casey Rodarmor's Runes protocol launches at the fourth halving block, enabling a UTXO-based fungible token standard on Bitcoin as an alternative to BRC-20. Transaction fees spike to multi-year highs as users rush to mint Runes tokens in the hours following launch.
protocol · neutral