MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin rose by almost 10% during the trading session on Monday up to $22,500, according to CoinDesk portal trading data.

As of 11:01 a.m. Moscow time, the Bitcoin rate rose by 9.95% to $22,564.

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.