Bitcoin YearsJune 2012 Bitcoin price in June 2012
Bitcoin opened June 2012 at about $5.27. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $5.27
- Change on previous month
- +5.8%
- Change on a year earlier
- −45%
The price in context
On Jun 1, 2012, Bitcoin was priced at about $5.27. That is up 5.8% from May, when it started the month at $4.98.
In 2012, first-of-month prices ranged from $4.82 in April to $12.56 in December.
A year earlier, in June 2011, the price was $9.57, so over twelve months Bitcoin was down 45%.
Twelve months later, in June 2013, the price was $128.78 (+2,344%).
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 14,710 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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