{"id":138881,"date":"2026-03-01T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138881"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:47:11","slug":"5-straight-months-of-losses-bitcoin-suffers-yet-another-double-digit-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138881","title":{"rendered":"5 Straight Months of Losses: Bitcoin Suffers Yet Another Double-Digit Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The positive start to 2026 was quickly erased, and bitcoin began to lose value rapidly, reaching new local lows of $60,000 in early February.<\/p>\n

Although it recovered some ground since those 15-month lows, it still ended the month in the red with a painful double-digit decline. This made it five in a row.<\/p>\n

February Deep in Red As Well<\/h2>\n

It was almost impossible to imagine the current situation in early October. At the time, bitcoin\u2019s price was riding high, charting fresh peaks at over $126,000, and the community was anticipating even more records during the so-called \u2018Uptober.\u2019 The reality, though, was far different and brutal.<\/p>\n

On October 10, the cryptocurrency market experienced its worst single-day liquidation event, with more than $19 billion wrecked<\/a> as prices tumbled. As many analysts claimed after that pivotal day, something in the market\u2019s structure broke, and it was never the same.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin started to chart frequent losses and dumped to a five-digit price territory by the end of the year. It ended 2025 in the red, making it the first post-halving year to do so. January began on the right foot, but the rejection at $98,000 resulted in another nosedive. Thus, January saw losses of just over 10%.<\/p>\n

Another massive crash occurred<\/a> in early February, pushing bitcoin south to its lowest level since October 2024 at $60,000. Although it rebounded and finished February at around $65,000-$66,000, it still ended the month with a 15% decline. This made it the fifth consecutive month in the red for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Bitcoin Monthly Returns. Source: CoinGlass<\/p>\n

Ethereum Goes a Step Further<\/h2>\n

Data from Cryptorank shows that the landscape around the world\u2019s largest altcoin is even more painful. ETH has been in the red for six months in a row. Moreover, it has been in the green only three out of the past 15 months.<\/p>\n

January and February were quite violent, with a 17.7% decline during the first month of the year and a whopping 19.6% drop in the second. This is the worst monthly streak for ETH since 2018, when it was in the red for seven consecutive months.<\/p>\n

ETH is currently fighting to stay above $2,000 after dipping below that level on numerous occasions in the past month.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Ethereum Monthly Performance. Source: Cryptorank<\/p>\n

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The positive start to 2026 was quickly erased, and bitcoin began to lose value rapidly, reaching new local lows of $60,000 in early February. Although it recovered some ground since those 15-month lows, it still ended the month in the red with a painful double-digit decline. This made it five in a row. February Deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":138882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}