January 2024 Bitcoin price in January 2024
Bitcoin opened January 2024 at about $44,167. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $44,167
- Change on previous month
- +14%
- Change on a year earlier
- +166%
The price in context
On Jan 1, 2024, Bitcoin was priced at about $44,167. That is up 14% from December, when it started the month at $38,689.
In 2024, first-of-month prices ranged from $43,076 in February to $97,280 in December.
A year earlier, in January 2023, the price was $16,625, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 166%.
Twelve months later, in January 2025, the price was $94,420 (+114%).
By this month, Bitcoin had been through 3 halvings.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($84,853, Oct 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 1.9 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
US spot Bitcoin ETFs approved. On January 10, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved the first spot Bitcoin ETFs, and trading began the next day.
Price by month in 2024
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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