Bitcoin YearsOctober 2017 Bitcoin price in October 2017
Bitcoin opened October 2017 at about $4,404. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $4,404
- Change on previous month
- −10.0%
- Change on a year earlier
- +617%
The price in context
On Oct 1, 2017, Bitcoin was priced at about $4,404. That is down 10.0% from September, when it started the month at $4,892.
In 2017, first-of-month prices ranged from $989.02 in February to $10,976 in December.
A year earlier, in October 2016, the price was $613.98, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 617%.
Twelve months later, in October 2018, the price was $6,590 (+50%).
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 18 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
Nearby in Bitcoin history
No major event is recorded on our site for this month. The closest ones:
China bans initial coin offerings and soon orders domestic exchanges to close. More →
SegWit2x is called off. The planned SegWit2x hard fork to double the block size is cancelled after it fails to win broad support.
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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