Bitcoin YearsJanuary 2015 Bitcoin price in January 2015
Bitcoin opened January 2015 at about $314.25. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $314.25
- Change on previous month
- −17%
- Change on a year earlier
- −58%
The price in context
On Jan 1, 2015, Bitcoin was priced at about $314.25. That is down 17% from December, when it started the month at $379.24.
In 2015, first-of-month prices ranged from $222.93 in June to $362.49 in December.
A year earlier, in January 2014, the price was $754.22, so over twelve months Bitcoin was down 58%.
Twelve months later, in January 2016, the price was $434.33 (+38%).
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 247 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
Bitcoin falls close to $200, its lowest level in about two years, and the Bitstamp exchange loses around 19,000 BTC in a hack. More →
Price by month in 2015
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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