Bitcoin YearsAugust 2012 Bitcoin price in August 2012
Bitcoin opened August 2012 at about $9.56. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $9.56
- Change on previous month
- +44%
- Change on a year earlier
- −27%
The price in context
On Aug 1, 2012, Bitcoin was priced at about $9.56. That is up 44% from July, when it started the month at $6.63.
That was the 20th biggest one-month rise 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 August 2011, the price was $13.09, so over twelve months Bitcoin was down 27%.
Twelve months later, in August 2013, the price was $96.60 (+910%).
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 8,109 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
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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