MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin rose above $44,999 for the first time since April 5, 2022, according to Coindesk platform.

Thus, as of 21:44 Moscow time, the price of bitcoin grew by 4.98% to $44,075. By 21:55 Moscow time, Bitcoin had slowed down and was at $43.743 thousand (+4.76%).

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.