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Bitcoin £63,288 ▼0.26%
Money
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Bitcoin
£63,288
▼ 0.26% · 24h
£1 buys…
AUD
1.8912
▲ 0.15%
CAD
1.8784
▼ 0.03%
CHF
1.1037
▲ 0.05%
EUR
1.1666
▲ 0.08%
HKD
10.3935
▼ 0.11%
INR
127.15
▼ 0.13%
JPY
208.14
▲ 0.03%
NOK
12.6852
▲ 0.6%
NZD
2.3421
▲ 0.1%
SEK
13.2073
▲ 0.08%
SGD
1.6921
▼ 0.15%
USD
1.3247
▼ 0.12%
ECB reference rates via Frankfurter. Banks and cards add their own margin. Arrows compare against our previous daily snapshot.
Crypto
| Coin | GBP | USD | 24h |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC Bitcoin | £63,288.00 | $84,063.00 | ▼ 0.26% |
| ETH Ethereum | £2,027.23 | $2,692.66 | ▼ 1.28% |
| XRP XRP | £1.14 | $1.51 | ▼ 3.27% |
| ADA Cardano | £0.1876 | $0.2492 | ▼ 1.24% |
| SOL Solana | £90.19 | $119.80 | ▼ 1.18% |
| DOGE Dogecoin | £0.0719 | $0.0955 | ▼ 0.34% |
| DOT Polkadot | £0.9271 | $1.23 | ▲ 1.4% |
| LINK Chainlink | £10.81 | $14.35 | ▼ 4.96% |
| LTC Litecoin | £50.42 | $66.97 | ▼ 2.52% |
| UNI Uniswap | £6.69 | $8.88 | ▼ 1.71% |
Via CoinGecko. Crypto is high-risk and unregulated in the UK — you may lose everything you put in.
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