
24 Apr Bitcoin Trades at $15k in Lebanon Amidst Economic Turmoil, Showing Its Real Potential
- Bitcoin tops near $15,000 on Lebanon P2P marketplaces as the country’s official fiat crashes 50 percent in just a month.
- The bitcoin rate in international is just above $7,500.
- Lebanon is facing its worst economic crisis, with inflation hitting record highs amidst liquidity crunch.
Bitcoin is trading almost twice its current rate in an economically-hit Lebanon.
Peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace LocalBitcoins.com shows people selling the cryptocurrency for as high as 22,678,227.03 LBP per token, which roughly equals $15,000. Meanwhile, people who are looking to liquidate bitcoin for local currency are demanding as much as $11,000 per token.

BTCUSD in Lebanon P2P markets jumps above $15,000 | Source: LocalBitcoins, Google
Exchange rates coming out of Lebonan crypto marketplaces are strikingly higher than their global counterparts. Data aggregator Messari shows the bitcoin price a little above $7,500 – almost half than what is the Lebanese traders are asking.
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