Bitcoin value history (comparison to US$)
Date Price for 1 BTC Notes
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 basically none No exchanges or market, users were mainly cryptography fans who were sending bitcoins for low or no value.
Feb 2010 – May 2010 less than $0.01 On 22 May 2010,[76] user "laszlo" made the first real-world transaction by buying two pizzas in Jacksonville, Florida for 10,000 BTC.[77][78] User "SmokeTooMuch" auctioned 10,000 BTC for $50 (cumulatively), but no buyer was found.[79][80]
July 2010 $0.08 In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from $0.008 to $0.08 for 1 bitcoin.
Feb 2011 – April 2011 $1 bitcoin takes parity with US dollar.[81]
8 July 2011 $31 top of first "bubble", followed by the first price drop
Dec 2011 $2 minimum after few months
Dec 2012 $13 slowly rising for a year
April 11, 2013 $266 top of a price rally, during which the value was growing by 5-10% daily.
May 2013 $130 basically stable, again slowly rising.
June 2013 $100 in June slowly dropping to $70, but rising in July to $110
Nov 2013 $350 – $1250 from October $150–$200 in November, rising to $400, then $600, eventually reaching $900 on 11/19/2013 and breaking $1000 threshold on 27 November 2013.
Dec 2013 $600 – $1000 Price crashed to $600, rebounded to $1,000, crashed again to the $500 range. Stabilized to the ~$650–$800 range.
Jan 2014 $750 – $1000 Price spiked to $1000 briefly, then settled in the $800–$900 range for the rest of the month.[82]
Feb 2014 $550 – $750 Price fell following the shutdown of Mt. Gox before recovering to the $600–$700 range.
Mar 2014 $450 – $700 Price continued to fall due to a false report regarding bitcoin ban in China [83] and uncertainty over whether the Chinese government would seek to prohibit banks from working with digital currency exchanges.[84]
Apr 2014 $340 – $530 The lowest price since the 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis had been reached at 3:25 AM on April 11[85]
May 2014 $440 – $630 The downtrend first slow down and then reverse, increasing over 30% in the last days of May.
Mar 2015 $200 – $300 Price fell through to early 2015.
Early Nov 2015 $395 – $504 Large spike in value from 225-250 at the start of October to 2015's record high of $504