Bitcoin YearsApril 2013 Bitcoin price in April 2013
Bitcoin opened April 2013 at about $104.70. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $104.70
- Change on previous month
- +203%
- Change on a year earlier
- +2,072%
The price in context
On Apr 1, 2013, Bitcoin was priced at about $104.70. That is up 203% from March, when it started the month at $34.55.
That was the 5th biggest one-month rise in our data since 2010, out of 196 months.
In 2013, first-of-month prices ranged from $13.30 in January to $948.00 in December.
A year earlier, in April 2012, the price was $4.82, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 2,072%.
Twelve months later, in April 2014, the price was $479.46 (+358%).
By this month, Bitcoin had been through 1 halving.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($77,521, Nov 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 740 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
The price peaks near $260 and then falls by more than half within days. More →
Mt. Gox buckles under its own success. The banking crisis in Cyprus in March 2013, where savers saw part of their deposits seized, gave Bitcoin a new story: money that no government could freeze. The price rocketed from about $13 in January to $266 on Mt.…
Price by month in 2013
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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