Predicting the price of bitcoin on an exact timeline is a fool s errand peter wall the ceo of uk listed crypto miner argo blockchain said via email though adding he is very optimistic in. Bitcoin s price saw its share of ups and downs in 2013 but it passed a value of 1 000 for the first time and was becoming the most recognizable and successful wallet and exchange available. The price rallied in early april 2013 to get to.
The digital currency began the year trading at around 13 50 per bitcoin. Bitcoin history bitcoin really started to take off in 2013. The second halving was in 2016 at block 420 000 and the block reward became 12 5 btc.
This was halved in 2012 at block 210 000 where the block reward became 25 btc. When bitcoin s network first began bitcoin s block reward was 50 btc per block mined. This gave 1 bitcoin the value of 0 0009.
The first time bitcoin actually gained value was on october 12 2009 when martti malmi a finnish developer that helped satoshi work on bitcoin sold 5050 bitcoins for 5 02. When bitcoin started out there wasn t really a price for it since no one was willing to buy it. Buy bitcoin at these exchanges.
Its highest price for the year was just 0 39. Bitcoin s price never topped 1 in 2010. How much was 1 bitcoin worth in 2010.
Technically bitcoin was worth 0 in 2009 during its very first year of existence. Its first recorded price was in 2010. Bitcoin was not traded on any exchanges in 2009.
