Bitcoin statistics Australia 2021-23

Essential Bitcoin statistics for Australians, from market share to price history.

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Key takeaways

  • Bitcoin is the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, according to CoinGecko.
  • Its price is highly volatile: it hit a record in November 2021, fell sharply, then set a new all-time high in October 2025.
  • Bitcoin's price moves constantly, so check a live price before you buy and invest with caution.
The first digital currency and still the largest, Bitcoin, made up 46% of the total value of the biggest 250 cryptocurrency coins at our last data update in 2023.

Bitcoin's founding is the stuff of legend: it was created in 2009 under the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto – an unknown entity who believed that future currencies shouldn't be controlled by a central government or agency.

How prevalent is cryptocurrency in Australia? Finder's Cryptocurrency Adoption Index found that 17% of Australians surveyed owned crypto in November 2022, above the 15% global average, and roughly 10% said they owned Bitcoin. Earlier, a Finder survey of 1,004 Australians conducted in January 2021 revealed that 1 in 4 people (25%) invested in or planned to invest in cryptocurrency. That was equivalent to 5 million digital currency investors.

The first Bitcoin hit the market in July 2010 at a cost of under $0.01. It took three years for the currency to reach over $300 in value, which it did in 2013. Since then, Bitcoin has smashed all records. It hit $93,482 in November 2021, a record at the time, and set a new all-time high in October 2025, according to CoinGecko. At our last data update in 2023, the price of Bitcoin was $41,123, 6.1% lower than a month earlier. All prices are quoted in Australian dollars.

At that update, the price of Bitcoin had moved by $371 over the previous 24 hours, with a 24-hour low of $40,003 and a high of $41,250. The number of Bitcoin in circulation was then 19,376,537, and more than 20 million had been mined by October 2026, according to CoinGecko. While there can only be 21 million Bitcoin created, it's estimated that this max capacity won't be reached within the next 100 years.

Bitcoin is by far the biggest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation (total value in existence), and at our last data update in 2023 there was $796 billion worth of Bitcoin out in the wild. Bitcoin surpassed a market cap of AUD$1 trillion for the first time in February 2021. Ethereum, the second most popular currency, had a market cap of $330 billion at that 2023 update.

At our last data update in 2023, $23 billion worth of Bitcoin had been traded over the previous 24 hours. The graph below depicts the volume of Bitcoin traded daily. This figure can be somewhat volatile, with $6 billion being traded on one of its worst days and $82 billion on one of its best.

The price of Bitcoin can also be very volatile. In February 2021, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had purchased US$1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and would be accepting the currency as payment, paving the way for larger companies to adopt Bitcoin and sending the price soaring.

In May, he reversed that announcement and declared that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin due to its high carbon footprint, leading to an immediate crash of the Bitcoin price to roughly where it was before his first tweet.

While there are some excellent guides out there covering how to invest in Bitcoin, it would be wise to invest with caution. If you are after more statistics on other cryptocurrencies, head to our cryptocurrency statistics page for everything crypto.

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