March 2020 Bitcoin price in March 2020
Bitcoin opened March 2020 at about $8,562. Here is how that price compares with the month before, the year before and the months that followed.
- Price on the 1st
- $8,562
- Change on previous month
- −8.8%
- Change on a year earlier
- +122%
The price in context
On Mar 1, 2020, Bitcoin was priced at about $8,562. That is down 8.8% from February, when it started the month at $9,393.
In 2020, first-of-month prices ranged from $6,607 in April to $18,803 in December.
A year earlier, in March 2019, the price was $3,860, so over twelve months Bitcoin was up 122%.
Twelve months later, in March 2021, the price was $49,631 (+480%).
By this month, Bitcoin had been through 2 halvings.
Compared with the latest price in our data ($84,853, Oct 2026), one bitcoin bought at this month’s price would be worth 9.9 times as much today. See the Bitcoin calculator.
What happened this month
Black Thursday. On March 12, 2020, Bitcoin dropped by more than a third in a single day as markets worldwide sold off in the first panic of the pandemic.
Price by month in 2020
Bitcoin price on the first day of each month, in US dollars. This month is highlighted.
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