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September 2017 Bitcoin price in September 2017
Bitcoin opened September 2017 at about $4,892. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $4,892
- Change on previous month
- +80%
- Change on a year earlier
- +755%
The price in context
On Sep 1, 2017, Bitcoin was priced at about $4,892. That is up 80% from August, when it started the month at $2,718.
That was the 7th biggest one-month rise in our data since 2010, out of 196 months.
In 2017, first-of-month prices ranged from $989.02 in February to $10,976 in December.
A year earlier, in September 2016, the price was $572.30, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 755%.
Twelve months later, in September 2018, the price was $7,193 (+47%).
By this month, Bitcoin had been through 2 halvings.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($77,521, Nov 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 16 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
China bans initial coin offerings and soon orders domestic exchanges to close. More →
China bans ICOs and shuts its exchanges. In 2017 the world discovered crypto. Thousands of new tokens were sold to the public through initial coin offerings, and a large share of the trading happened in China. On 4 September Chinese regulators declared ICOs…
Price by month in 2017
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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