Bitcoin has fallen 40% from its 2025 peak, now trading around $75,000-$77,000, signaling a broader cooling period in the crypto market. Over $2.5 billion in

Bitcoin prices dropped to less than $75,000 on Sunday, February 1, reaching their lowest point since April 2025 as multiple variables combined to fuel losses.

While no one has fond memories of the 2022 crypto winter — with the price of bitcoin falling 80% — the timeline was relatively brief, roughly one year from the blowoff top to the bottom. From there, bitcoin quickly doubled in price, rose through 2023, and ultimately hit a new record in early 2024.

But one major player is doubling down on Bitcoin mining and giving it another shot after shutting down one of its mining facilities. Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin by market cap, is coming up with a new strategy to improve the process of Bitcoin mining.

Bitcoin's (CRYPTO:BTC) slide below $80,000 has raised fears of a deeper collapse, but market structure suggests the next leg down may be more compressed than in past cycles. Why Bitcoin's Market Structure Is Turning Bearish Bitcoin has fallen roughly 11% over the past week,

Having called the bitcoin top in 2024 and seen the boom/bubble play out, I’ve been predicting the subsequent crash for a very long time. And voila, here we are.

During a recent conversation with TheStreet Roundtable and The Wolf of All Streets host Scott Melker , Galaxy Digital's retail trading venture Galaxy One's managing director, Zac Prince, dissected one of crypto’s latest trends, the rise and fall of Bitcoin Treasury companies.

There's seemingly no place for investors to hide right now.

It's about a lot more than "zooming out." Supply overhangs and investor "muscle memory" regarding gold help explain bitcoin's poor absolute and relative performance.

Bitcoin, as well as other alternative cryptocurrencies, experienced sharp price declines on Thursday and have yet to bounce back just one day later. Bitcoin fell to the lower $84,00 range yesterday and continued to slip into the early morning hours, hitting as low as $81,600.

A part of why many freelancers have begun to gravitate toward Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is the rising costs of using traditional global payment platforms. Many of them have started introducing fees and restrictions on transactions that noticeably cut into a freelancer’s bottom line.

On January 29, 2026, Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) crashed 15% from $96,000 to $80,000 in one day. The remarkable part was not the crash itself. It was that Bitcoin fell when two opposite things happened at the same time.