MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Bitcoin accelerated growth during the trading session on Saturday and reached $23,056 (+10.01%), according to Coindesk. The last time the price of bitcoin rose above $23,000 was on August 19, 2022.

As of 13:29 Moscow time, the price of bitcoin slowed down growth and stood at $22,892 (+9.43%).

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or a 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.