Bitcoin USD BTC-USD CCC – CoinMarketCap. Starting the year under 4000 the price of Bitcoin rose nearly 10000 to hit 13880 by the middle of the year Yet these gains did not prove to be sustainable. Bitcoin returned more than 230 during the 10-year period ending in March 2021 For that reason alone its now firmly entrenched in the mainstream But Bitcoins price journey has been far. By the end of the year bitcoin price was back to its previous ATH of 20000 and surpassed it closing on December 31 at over 29000. Bitcoins price reached just under 29000 in Dec 2020 increasing 416 from the start of that year 20212023 Bitcoin took less than a month in 2021 to smash its 2020 price..