First Bitcoin Exchange, New Liberty Standard: 1 USD = 1309.03 BTC

2009 Oct 5 See all posts
First Bitcoin Exchange, New Liberty Standard: 1 USD = 1309.03 BTC @ Satoshi Nakamoto
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The first known Bitcoin price, or exchange rate, recorded on 5 October 2009 was published on what was the world's first Bitcoin exchange site, New Liberty Standard (NLS), a site which offered a service to buy and sell Bitcoins in exchange for US dollars using PayPal. The site was operated by "NewLibertyStandard", who was a frequent contributor to the Bitcoin forum, and who discussed his exchange site on the forum in posts such as here.

The very first Bitcoin/USD exchange rate published on the New Liberty Standard site on 5 on October 2009 was USD $1.00 = 1,309.03 BTC, which equated to an incredible $0.00764 per Bitcoin, or in other words 7.6 US cents per 100 Bitcoins.

NewLibertyStandard calculated this exchange rate using a formula based on:

dividing $1.00 by the average amount of electricity required to run a computer with high CPU for a year, 1331.5 kWh, multiplied by the average residential cost of electricity in the United States for the previous year, $0.1136, divided by 12 months divided, by the number of bitcoins generated by my computer over the past 30 days.

New Liberty Standard's first Bitcoin / USD prices, 5th – 11th October 2009. Initial price 1,309.03 BTC per USD


Update: on 28 Dec 2009, NLS quoted that it would sell 1,578.76 Bitcoins for USD $1.00 plus a Paypal transaction fee.

The best rate quoted for buying Bitcoins on the NLS exchange in 2009 was on 17 December 2009 when you could buy 1630.33 BTC for USD $1.00.

In early October 2009, there was also an historic Bitcoin/USD transaction which consisted of a Finnish programmer and early Bitcoin supporter named Martti Malmi selling 5050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for USD $5.02, which was the equivalent of 9.94 US cents per 100 Bitcoins.


Update: Exchange rate of 221.65 BTC per $1.00 on the NLS exchange, 6 June 2010


Finally, thanks for the proposal of BTC ticker code and Thai baht ฿ for use as Bitcoin symbol.