Bitcoin vs US Dollar Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Bitcoin vs US Dollar (BTCUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. History runs from 2017-05-07 — around 9 years — at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. A complete Bitcoin vs US Dollar 1-minute series is roughly 5.0M rows, about 249 MB as CSV.
Or work out the size first: the file-size calculator takes a range and returns the row count and CSV size.
Windows, macOS, Linux · €9 one-time for the entry licence · get the app
What the app fetches for Bitcoin vs US Dollar
| Symbol | BTCUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Bitcoin vs US Dollar |
| Asset class | Crypto |
| History available from | 2017-05-07 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 2017-05-07 → 2026-11-02 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Bitcoin vs US Dollar timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
Bitcoin vs US Dollar coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Every Bitcoin vs US Dollar timeframe shares the same 2017-05-07 start date, but not the same scale — coarser candles stay small while tick and intraday files grow fast. Current through 2026-11-02:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2017-05-07 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2017-05-07 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2017-05-07 | ~5.0M | ~249 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2017-05-07 | ~997K | ~50 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2017-05-07 | ~332K | ~17 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2017-05-07 | ~166K | ~8 MB |
| 1 hour | 2017-05-07 | ~83,100 | ~4 MB |
| 4 hours | 2017-05-07 | ~20,800 | ~1 MB |
| Daily | 2017-05-07 | ~3,500 | ~173 KB |
| Monthly | 2017-05-07 | ~110 | ~6 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from crypto session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the Bitcoin vs US Dollar series
Bitcoin trades continuously — 24 hours, seven days, no weekend gap — which makes it the awkward one in any multi-asset study, since every other instrument in the catalogue stops on Friday. Resampling BTC to a "daily" candle requires choosing a cut-off hour, and the choice is not neutral: different cut-offs produce visibly different daily series. Coverage starts 2017 at every timeframe, so there is no tick-versus-daily gap here.
What's inside the Bitcoin vs US Dollar file
timestamp,open,high,low,closeOne row per candle, stamped with the bar's opening time; tick files instead carry timestamp,askPrice,bidPrice,askVolume,bidVolume on every quote — ask first. Timestamps are epoch milliseconds in UTC, which pd.to_datetime(df.timestamp, unit="ms", utc=True) or =A2/86400000+DATE(1970,1,1) turns into a date. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Bitcoin vs US Dollar
Bitcoin vs US Dollar (BTCUSD) is a cryptocurrency with 9 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting crypto trading bots, volatility and drawdown analysis, on-chain/price correlation studies and training machine-learning models. Pick any date range from 2017-05-07 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does Bitcoin vs US Dollar data go?
- Bitcoin vs US Dollar history runs from 2017-05-07 — roughly 9 years — up to the last completed trading day, at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. Every licence tier reaches all of it.
- How large is a full Bitcoin vs US Dollar download?
- The complete Bitcoin vs US Dollar 1-minute history is roughly 5.0M rows, about 249 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 3,500 rows, 173 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the Bitcoin vs US Dollar CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns; tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell Bitcoin vs US Dollar data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Bitcoin vs US Dollar (BTCUSD) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical crypto data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Load in Python (pandas)
- Query with SQL (DuckDB)
- Automate downloads (CLI)
- Tick data file sizes
- vs Dukascopy export
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