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Where bitcoin stands versus its history

Bitcoin was $82,140 on Oct 15, 2026, in the middle third of its 12 month range. Updated when Coinbase publishes a new reading.

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Snapshot

Bitcoin was $82,140 on Oct 15, 2026, in the middle third of its 12 month range. The highest reading in the data is $124,720 on Oct 5, 2025 and the lowest is $120 on Jan 14, 2015; the data starts on Dec 1, 2014.

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What We Know

  • Latest reading: $82,140 on Oct 15, 2026.
  • Previous reading: $81,694 on Oct 14, 2026, so the latest is up 0.5%.
  • One week earlier: $81,657 on Oct 8, 2026; up 0.6% since.
  • One year earlier: $108,198 on Oct 15, 2025; down 24.1% since.
  • 12 month high: $114,548 on Oct 25, 2025. 12 month low: $58,586 on Jun 30, 2026.
  • 5 year high: $124,720 on Oct 5, 2025. 5 year low: $15,756 on Nov 21, 2022.
  • Highest since: the latest reading is the highest since Oct 13, 2026, the last time the series was at or above this level.
  • Lowest since: the latest reading is the lowest since Oct 14, 2026, the last time the series was at or below this level.
  • Highest in data back to Dec 1, 2014: $124,720 on Oct 5, 2025. Lowest: $120 on Jan 14, 2015.

Octans View

At $82,140, bitcoin sits 42% of the way from its 12 month low to its 12 month high. Over the past year it is down 24.1%.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

Limits. This page shows daily readings, not intraday levels; a market can trade above or below them during a session. Coinbase data reach FRED with a lag of one day, so the latest reading can trail the market. Records refer only to the history this source carries; older data from other sources may show higher or lower levels. Nothing here is a forecast.

Method and source. Octans Research computes every figure on this page from the full published history of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) series CBBTCUSD. "Highest since" is the last earlier date when the series was at or above the latest reading. The page is regenerated by a fixed template when a new reading is published; no model wrote it.

Chart

Bitcoin price, in the middle third of its 12 month range Bitcoin price, in the middle third of its 12 month range: series rising from 61541USD to 82140USD (+20599USD) from 2021-10-17 to 2026-10-15. Scale 0USD to 150000USD. 0USD50000USD100000USD150000USD 2021-10-172026-10-15 BITCOIN PRICE, IN THE MIDDLE THIRD OF ITS 12 MONTH RANGE +20599USD 82140USD
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) · As of 2026-10-15Indicative, not investment advice.

Sources

  1. [1]Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) — Bitcoin price, full daily history (series CBBTCUSD)

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• Previous reading: $81,694 on Oct 14, 2026, so the latest is up 0.5% · What we know