Bitcoin YearsDecember 2013 Bitcoin price in December 2013
Bitcoin opened December 2013 at about $948.00. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $948.00
- Change on previous month
- +369%
- Change on a year earlier
- +7,448%
The price in context
On Dec 1, 2013, Bitcoin was priced at about $948.00. That is up 369% from November, when it started the month at $202.15.
That was the 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. December was the highest monthly price of the year.
A year earlier, in December 2012, the price was $12.56, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 7,448%.
Twelve months later, in December 2014, the price was $379.24 (−60%).
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 82 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
China’s central bank bars financial institutions from handling Bitcoin transactions, and the price slides. More →
China says no, then Mt. Gox disappears. By late November 2013 Bitcoin had passed $1,000, driven by a buying frenzy in China. On 5 December the People’s Bank of China ruled that banks and payment companies could not handle Bitcoin. Within days the price had…
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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