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Bitcoin tops $53,000 for the first time in history

The price gained 3.22% during the trading session on Friday

MOSCOW, February 19 /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin gained 3.22% during the trading session on Friday to reach the level of $53,262, according to trading data.

The cryptocurrency price has therefore hit the all-time high.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without intermediaries.