MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin gained 8.18% during the trading session early on Tuesday morning and reached $68,284, according to Binance platform trading data.

As of 2:20 a.m. Moscow time, the Bitcoin rate was at $68,211, having added 8.08%.

The cryptocurrency price was above $66,000 last time on November 10, 2021.

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.