Bitcoin YearsDecember 2017 Bitcoin price in December 2017
Bitcoin opened December 2017 at about $10,976. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $10,976
- Change on previous month
- +62%
- Change on a year earlier
- +1,350%
The price in context
On Dec 1, 2017, Bitcoin was priced at about $10,976. That is up 62% from November, when it started the month at $6,767.
That was the 11th 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. December was the highest monthly price of the year.
A year earlier, in December 2016, the price was $756.77, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 1,350%.
Twelve months later, in December 2018, the price was $4,215 (−62%).
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 7.1 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
Bitcoin futures launch in the US. In December 2017, the Cboe and then the CME began trading Bitcoin futures, the first regulated US derivatives on Bitcoin.
CME futures launch at the peak of the 2017 bubble. CME Group starts Bitcoin futures trading as the price reaches almost $20,000, the top of the 2017 cycle.
The mania ends: crypto winter. In December 2017 Bitcoin was on taxi drivers’ lips and morning television. The price touched about $19,700 on 17 December, the same day bitcoin futures started trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. For the first…
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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