Bitcoin YearsDecember 2011 Bitcoin price in December 2011
Bitcoin opened December 2011 at about $3.06. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $3.06
- Change on previous month
- −2.9%
- Change on a year earlier
- +1,230%
The price in context
On Dec 1, 2011, Bitcoin was priced at about $3.06. That is down 2.9% from November, when it started the month at $3.15.
In 2011, first-of-month prices ranged from $0.30 in January to $15.40 in July.
A year earlier, in December 2010, the price was $0.23, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 1,230%.
Twelve months later, in December 2012, the price was $12.56 (+310%).
No halving had taken place yet.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($77,521, Nov 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 25,334 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
Nearby in Bitcoin history
No major event is recorded on our site for this month. The closest ones:
Litecoin launches, one of the first Bitcoin-inspired alternative coins. More →
A Ponzi scheme collapses: Bitcoin Savings & Trust. In late 2011 a user known as “pirateat40”, later identified as Trendon Shavers, began offering an investment with an impossible promise: 7% interest per week, paid in bitcoin. He called it Bitcoin Savings & Trust, and…
Price by month in 2011
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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