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KWIQ Naira Crypto Report · November 2019

Bitcoin fell 17.5% in November 2019, to $7,556

Bitcoin fell 17.5% in November 2019, from $9,160 to $7,556, and ether fell 16.8%. Quidax’s Bitcoin market valued the dollar at a median of ₦357.43, 16.6% above the CBN’s official rate, which averaged ₦306.45.

Based on public market data: Coinbase prices, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s official rate and Quidax’s naira markets. KWIQ’s own figures start in May 2021. How we measure

Bitcoin at the end of the month

$7,556

Down 17.5% on the month

CBN official rate, end of month

₦306.5

Averaged ₦306.45 per dollar

Dollar on Quidax, median day

₦357.43

16.6% above the official rate

Bitcoin in naira on Quidax

₦2,720,124

At the end of the month

Bitcoin and ether in dollars

Bitcoin fell 17.5% in November 2019, from $9,160 to $7,556, with a high of $9,600 and a low of $6,526. Ether fell 16.8%, to $152.

$7,556
Dec 18Jan 19Feb 19Mar 19Apr 19May 19Jun 19Jul 19Aug 19Sep 19Oct 19Nov 19

Bitcoin’s price at the end of each of the last 12 months, in US dollars.

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MonthBitcoinEther
Dec 2018$3,692$131
Jan 2019$3,412$106
Feb 2019$3,792$134
Mar 2019$4,095$141
Apr 2019$5,271$160
May 2019$8,554$268
Jun 2019$10,761$290
Jul 2019$10,087$219
Aug 2019$9,601$172
Sep 2019$8,305$181
Oct 2019$9,159$182
Nov 2019$7,556$152

The naira: official and market rates

The CBN’s official rate stayed at about ₦306.45 per dollar. On Quidax’s Bitcoin market, the dollar was worth between ₦351.56 and ₦370.59 a day, with a median of ₦357.43, 16.6% above the official rate.

₦357.43
Dec 18Jan 19Feb 19Mar 19Apr 19May 19Jun 19Jul 19Aug 19Sep 19Oct 19Nov 19

Naira per dollar on Quidax, the median day of each month.

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MonthOfficialMarketGap
Dec 2018₦306.42₦364.16+18.8%
Jan 2019₦306.35₦361.17+17.9%
Feb 2019₦306.27₦354.25+15.7%
Mar 2019₦306.42₦360.53+17.7%
Apr 2019₦306.46₦362.55+18.3%
May 2019₦306.45₦359.86+17.4%
Jun 2019₦306.45₦358.82+17.1%
Jul 2019₦306.44₦356.76+16.4%
Aug 2019₦306.43₦356.72+16.4%
Sep 2019₦306.42₦355.17+15.9%
Oct 2019₦306.46₦356.6+16.4%
Nov 2019₦306.45₦357.43+16.6%

What it meant in naira

Two examples at Quidax’s prices, to show how the month’s moves added up for someone holding crypto in Nigeria. They aren’t the rates KWIQ paid.

  • $100 in crypto was worth about ₦35,156 on the first day of the month and ₦36,000 on the last.
  • 0.01 BTC was worth about ₦27,201 at the end of November 2019, against ₦32,639 a month earlier.

How we measure

  • Bitcoin and ether prices are Coinbase’s daily prices in US dollars (UTC days): the first day’s opening price, the last day’s closing price and the month’s high and low.
  • The official rate is the Central Bank of Nigeria’s central rate for the US dollar, on the days the CBN published one.
  • Quidax, which provides KWIQ’s wallets, listed USDT in December 2019. Before then, the market rate is Quidax’s naira price of Bitcoin divided by Bitcoin’s dollar price, day by day: the median of those daily rates, counting only days with trades.

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