MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. The price of Bitcoin extended gains during the trading session on Monday, reaching $25,060, according to data provided by the CoinDesk portal as of 6:36 am Moscow time.

As of 6:47 am, the Bitcoin price amounted to $24,880.

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.