MOSCOW, January 11. /TASS/. The price of bitcoin by 9.12% during the trading session grew to $49,014, according to Coindesk.

Later, Bitcoin had significantly slowed down growth and reached $48,024 (+6.46%).

Earlier on Thursday, according to data from the Coindesk platform at 17:38 Moscow time, the price of bitcoin exceeded $48,000, rising by 6.35% to $48,052.

The last time Bitcoin price exceeded $48,000 and $49,000 on December 27, 2021.

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.