When asked, for example, about the maximum price that the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Standard & Poor’s 500 has reached a record level, everyone agrees on one number.

While when asked about the maximum and highest price that bitcoin reached, the answers are mixed.

Looking at the price of Bitcoin at the moment, we find that it has reached a price that we have not seen since the end of 2017.

Recently, Neeraj Agrawal, Director of Communications at the Coin Center, which specializes in defending cryptocurrency, asked a question on Twitter:

What is the maximum price bitcoin has reached anyway?

I’m talking seriously I don’t know the number.

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What is ATH anyway

– Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) November 24, 2020

Agrawal was referring to the dollar value of bitcoin, a number that is difficult to determine when it is constantly trading at different prices on different exchanges.

Larry Cermak of The Block has created a list of the highest Bitcoin prices ever reached on top cryptocurrency exchanges. BitMEX platform).

but according to CoinMarketCapThe all-time high for Bitcoin price is $20,089, which was reached on December 17, 2017.

According to the CoinMarketCap calculation methodology, the price of any group of crypto assets is a volume-weighted average of the market pairs prices for the group of cryptocurrencies.

Includes volume in order to limit the spread of wild price swings from trading platforms with low liquidity.

Messari uses the same figure of $20089, but explains:

The ATH maximum bid is not necessarily the absolute highest single traded price.

Due to the nature of the historical data we analyze, we cannot always consider every trade of an asset.

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For some assets, the maximum price quoted from the all-time high daily average, or the taking of the daily high, may indicate.

And the number of $ 20089 is not the only one that is common in crypto circles as the highest price for Bitcoin, but there is a number that appears frequently, which is $ 19783.

This number is taken from CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, and is frequently cited in publications such as Fortune as the highest price for Bitcoin ever.

Mr. Ryan Watkins, Researcher at Messir, said: to source including:

The difference in index numbers depends on the trading platforms they use and how each provider calculates prices.

What is the real number that can be said?

When Agrawal was asked to answer his question, he said:

I really think $20,000 is the dominant number.

According to Artir Sabak, founder of Cryptowatch, which is now affiliated with Kraken:

Personally I think around $20,000 is a good milestone to consider the all-time high, because the extreme levels vary a lot from one platform to another.

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Because the dollar has lost some value since 2017.

As for Paul Viraditakit, founder of Pantera Capital:

I never thought price mattered except for the media interest in it.

I consider the highest price of Bitcoin to be $19783, as Bitcoin has reached this price on most exchanges.

As for Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital, his opinion was as follows:

I don’t think it matters.

Whatever you’re measuring, we crossed the old highs before long. Everything is before us now.

Let’s say that the highest price Bitcoin reached at only $20,000.

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