Bitcoin YearsMarch 2012 Bitcoin price in March 2012
Bitcoin opened March 2012 at about $4.92. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $4.92
- Change on previous month
- −19%
- Change on a year earlier
- +435%
The price in context
On Mar 1, 2012, Bitcoin was priced at about $4.92. That is down 19% from February, when it started the month at $6.08.
That was the 20th biggest one-month fall in our data since 2010, out of 196 months.
In 2012, first-of-month prices ranged from $4.82 in April to $12.56 in December.
A year earlier, in March 2011, the price was $0.92, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 435%.
Twelve months later, in March 2013, the price was $34.55 (+602%).
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 15,756 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 2012
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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