Bitcoin’s Christmas Day price history shows long-term growth with extreme cycle swings, rising from $0.003 (2009) to $98,003 (2024), reflecting both adoption and repeated boom-bust volatility.
Bitcoin’s market structure changed materially in 2025, with ETF-driven access and institutional flows playing a bigger role than in earlier retail-led cycles.
2009: $0.003
2010: $0.25
2011: $4
2012: $13
2013: $669
2014: $320
2015: $449
2016: $883
2017: $14,146
2018: $3,881
2019: $7,206
2020: $24,165
2021: $50,654
2022: $16,801
2023: $37,800
2024: $98,003
Full article:
https://www.ccn.com/education/bitcoin-christmas-day-price-analysis-since-december-25-2009/
