Date | Price for 1 BTC | Notes |
---|---|---|
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | basically none | No exchanges or market, users were mainly cryptography fans who were sending bitcoins for low or no value. |
Feb 2010 – May 2010 | less than $0.01 | User "laszlo" made the first real-world transaction – he bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC.[76][77] User "SmokeTooMuch" auctioned 10,000 BTC for $50 (cumulatively), but no buyer was found.[78][79] |
July 2010 | $0.08 | In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin. |
Feb 2011 – April 2011 | $1 | Bitcoin takes parity with US dollar.[80] |
8 July 2011 | $31 | top of first "bubble", followed by the first price drop |
Dec 2011 | $2 | minimum after few months |
Dec 2012 | $13 | slowly rising for a year |
April 11, 2013 | $266 | top of a price rally, during which the value was growing by 5-10% daily. |
May 2013 | $130 | basically stable, again slowly rising. |
June 2013 | $100 | in June slowly dropping to $70, but rising in July to $110 |
Nov 2013 | $350 – $1250 | from October $150–$200 in November, rising to $400, then $600, eventually reaching $900 on 11/19/2013 and breaking $1000 threshold on 27 November 2013. |
Dec 2013 | $600 – $1000 | Price crashed to $600, rebounded to $1,000, crashed again to the $500 range. Stabilized to the ~$650–$800 range. |
Jan 2014 | $750 – $1000 | Price spiked to $1000 briefly, then settled in the $800–$900 range for the rest of the month.[81] |
Feb 2014 | $550 – $750 | Price fell following the shutdown of Mt. Gox before recovering to the $600–$700 range. |
Mar 2014 | $450 – $700 | Price continued to fall due to a false report regarding bitcoin ban in China [82] and uncertainty over whether the Chinese government would seek to prohibit banks from working with digital currency exchanges.[83] |
Apr 2014 | $340 – $530 | The lowest price since the 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis had been reached at 3:25 AM on April 11[84] |
May 2014 | $440 – $630 | The downtrend first slow down and then reverse, increasing over 30% in the last days of May. |
Mar 2015 | $200 – $300 | Price fell through to early 2015. |