MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin gained 9.78% during the trading session on Wednesday and reached $25,062, according to CoinDesk portal trading data.

The cryptocurrency price was above $25,000 last time in August 2022.

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.