MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin during the trading session on Wednesday rose by 7.17% to $61,127.

As of 18:37 Moscow time, Bitcoin slightly accelerated its growth to $61,180 (+7%).

The last time Bitcoin price exceeded $61,000 was on November 15, 2021.

The cryptocurrency gained more than $3,000 in price in less than 24 hours, an increase of more than 40% over a month.

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.