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<p class="is-style-lead">Oct. 31 marks the 15th anniversary of the white paper from Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person or persons that introduced the world to Bitcoin.</p>
<p>Today, the token sits at $34,494 according to data from CoinGecko, the world’s largest data aggregator.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bitcoin-through-the-years">Bitcoin through the years</h2>
<p>Following the release of the white paper, Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency was launched in 2009, with the first genesis block being mined on Jan. 9. Four years later, the world’s first cryptocurrency was sitting at $204.</p>
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Price of BTC on Bitcoin Whitepaper Day 📄<br><br>2013: $204<br>2014: $337<br>2015: $312<br>2016: $699<br>2017: $6369<br>2018: $6332<br>2019: $9172<br>2020: $13,537<br>2021: $61,837<br>2022: $20,624<br>2023: $34,494</p>— CoinGecko (@coingecko) <a href="https://twitter.com/coingecko/status/1719217393959043573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 31, 2023</a>
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<p>In the next four years, the cryptocurrency reported growth until 2017, where it was reported at $6,369 on Oct. 31 in that year.</p>
<p>Bitcoin then continued to report consistent growth until 2021, when it grew to $61,837. It was in this year a couple of notable things happened, including El Salvador becoming the first country to adopt the digital asset as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/el-salvador-proposes-law-to-make-bitcoin-legal-tender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">legal tender</a>, before it entered a crypto winter. On Oct. 31, 2022, Bitcoin was reported to be sitting at $20,624.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-price-surge-attributed-to-lack-of-liquidity">A price surge attributed to lack of liquidity</h2>
<p>In October of this year, Bitcoin once again saw growth in what many analysts suggest as being an end to the crypto winter.</p>
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<p>Although several reasons were attributed to this new uptick, analysts in an&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/bitcoins-weekly-surge-could-be-driven-by-liquidity-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Oct. 30 report</a>&nbsp;highlight that the surge could be driven by an ongoing liquidity shortage and declining stablecoin market cap.</p>
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