Convert between BTT and US dollars at the live rate.
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US and EU users who prioritise a spotless security record — no major hack since 2011 — and want a serious pro-grade trading terminal.
Institutions and funds requiring an SEC-registered venue with segregated qualified custody and audited on-chain reserves.
Active spot traders chasing the deepest global liquidity and the widest listing catalogue outside the US perimeter.
Traders who mix spot and on-chain — the Web3 wallet, DEX aggregator and Ethereum L2 X Layer sit inside the same account as CEX pairs.
Long-horizon EU holders who want the oldest continuously-operating exchange (2011) with conservative listings and full MiCA licensing.
Derivatives-first traders who want tighter perp funding and a maker-friendly fee schedule; accept offshore regulatory footprint.
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BitTorrent (BTT) is the token tied to the largest peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol in computing history. The protocol itself was written by Bram Cohen in 2001 and predates crypto by close to a decade. The token is the much newer part. After Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation acquired BitTorrent Inc. in July 2018 for around $140 million, the team launched BTT in January 2019 as a TRC-10 token on the Tron blockchain via a Binance Launchpad sale. The original purpose was simple: pay BitTorrent users in BTT for seeding torrents that other people wanted to download.
BTT today is more than a tip jar for seeders. It is the native gas token of BitTorrent Chain (BTTC), an EVM-compatible interop layer connecting Tron, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. It also pays for storage on BTFS and powers monetization on DLive, a live-streaming platform inside the BitTorrent family. Holders care about three things at once: the underlying file-sharing client with hundreds of millions of installs, the on-chain ecosystem built around Tron, and the post-redenomination supply situation.
The BTT price comes from spot trading across global exchanges. Live data on this page is aggregated from a multi-venue market feed and refreshes every 60 seconds. Most volume sits on BTT/USDT pairs on Binance, OKX, KuCoin, Gate, Bybit, and MEXC. BTT is not currently listed on Coinbase USA or Kraken, which keeps US retail flow thinner than for tokens of similar market cap.
What moves BTT/USD on any given day:
Live prices stream into the card above. The analysis below uses the levels at page load.
BitTorrent the protocol turned 17 years old before it had anything to do with cryptocurrency. Bram Cohen released the first reference client in 2001, and within a few years BitTorrent was carrying a meaningful share of all internet traffic. The company behind it, BitTorrent Inc., did fine but never figured out a clean way to monetize the protocol itself. Most of the money was in the client (uTorrent, BitTorrent Classic) and ad revenue around it.
Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation bought BitTorrent Inc. in July 2018, reportedly for around $140 million. The deal raised eyebrows because the obvious next move was to bolt a token onto a network that had run for almost two decades without one. That is roughly what happened. BTT launched on Binance Launchpad in January 2019, sold out in minutes, and started circulating on Tron as a TRC-10 token. The pitch was that paying seeders directly would speed up downloads of less-popular torrents and reduce the freeloader problem that has haunted P2P since the start.
A confusion worth clearing up early: BTT is the token, BTTC is the chain. Both names appear in the same announcements, and writers swap them often enough that it muddies the picture for newcomers.
In practical terms: when an article says "BTT pumped on the BitTorrent Chain TVL update," the asset that moved is BTT, the activity that drove it is on BTTC. If you want the gas token, you buy BTT. If you want to use the chain, you bridge into BTTC.
The redenomination is the single weirdest thing about BTT and the reason its price looks like a string of zeros. In December 2021, the team converted old BTT (TRC-10, max supply around 990 billion) into new BTT at a 1:1000 ratio. Every old BTT became 1,000 new BTT. The new total supply landed near 990 trillion tokens.
The reasoning had two parts. First, the team wanted BTT to be the native gas token of BitTorrent Chain, and a higher token count made gas math easier on a chain optimized for high transaction volume. Second, the swap let them issue an ecosystem treasury for BTTC validators, BTFS storage, and on-chain incentives without diluting holders relative to old supply.
The redenomination had real consequences for how the market reads the price:
BTT is not just a gas token. It pays for several services inside what the team calls the BitTorrent ecosystem, each of which targets a different use case.
The storage angle puts BTFS in the same comparison set as Filecoin. The two solve overlapping problems differently. Filecoin runs a sealed-sector economy with cryptographic proofs and DataCap incentives. BTFS rides on top of the existing BitTorrent peer network and uses BTT as a direct seeding payment. Filecoin is more rigorous; BTFS is lighter and more accessible to anyone already running a BitTorrent client.
Buying BTT works through the same flow as any major altcoin, with one extra choice point at the end: which chain version you actually want to hold.
For longer-term scenarios, see our BitTorrent price forecast.
BTT carries a different shape of risk than a generic altcoin. The token sits inside a single founder’s orbit, the supply is enormous in nominal terms, and Tier-1 US exchange listings have not arrived.
This page is information, not financial advice. Talk to someone licensed before allocating real capital.
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BitTorrent (BTT) trades at $0.00 with a 24-hour volume of $4.24M and a market capitalization of $267.04M. The asset is currently ranked #138 among all tracked cryptocurrencies.
In the last 24 hours, the BTT price has fallen +0.39%. On a seven-day window, BitTorrent has retraced +0.08%, under sustained selling pressure on both windows. Short-term moves are often amplified by liquidity, news flow, and derivatives positioning, so confirm signals across multiple indicators before acting.
BitTorrent's all-time high of $0.000003 was set on January 20, 2022. The current price sits +92.10% below that peak. Distance from the all-time high is a common reference point when evaluating long recoveries and macro support or resistance.
Buying BitTorrent (BTT) is a five-step routine once you have picked the right venue and pair. The steps below mirror what most investors do today.
You can also use the BitTorrent converter above to estimate how much BTT you would get for a given dollar amount before placing the order.
Whether BitTorrent is a good investment depends on your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for volatility. Like all cryptocurrencies, BTT carries real market risk: prices can rise or fall sharply in a day, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future returns.
This page provides data and analysis for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always do your own research, diversify, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
