Bitcoin Price at 18: From $0 to $77K as ETFs Hold 1.28M BTC

Key Insights Bitcoin turned 18 on October 31, with BTC trading near $77.3K at press time. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs held about 1.28M BTC, while Strategy held 848,517 BTC. More than 95% of the 21M BTC supply had been mined by March 2026. Bitcoin marked 18 years since the release of its whitepaper on October 31, 2026. Satoshi Nakamoto published the nine-page paper on a cryptography mailing list in 2008. The paper outlined peer-to-peer electronic cash that needed no bank. It introduced a public ledger secured by proof-of-work. At press time, the network’s market value stood near $1.55 trillion.