MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The price of bitcoin rose to a new all-time high of over $79,000, Binance platform data showed.

As of 8:10 a.m. Moscow time (5:10 a.m. GMT), the Bitcoin price hovered at around $79,158 as the cryptocurrency continued to grow.

Bitcoin was 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.