MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin went up by 5.5% during the trading session on Tuesday to $45,041, according to the data provided by the CoinDesk portal as of 7:25 am Moscow time.

The cost of Bitcoin reached the highest level of $45,42 at some point (+6.39%).

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.