March 2012 Bitcoin price in March 2012
Bitcoin opened March 2012 at about $4.92. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $4.92
- Change on previous month
- −19%
- Change on a year earlier
- +435%
The price in context
On Mar 1, 2012, Bitcoin was priced at about $4.92. That is down 19% from February, when it started the month at $6.08.
In 2012, first-of-month prices ranged from $4.82 in April to $12.56 in December.
A year earlier, in March 2011, the price was $0.92, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 435%.
Twelve months later, in March 2013, the price was $34.55 (+602%).
No halving had taken place yet.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($84,853, Oct 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 17,247 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
Price by month in 2012
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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