ATH

MrMpeg

That's cute! Reminds me of myself getting in at 10k with the same hope of getting out when i doubled my money in case we would ever reach the old ATH of 20k again. This was a few weeks before the covid crash.. oh boy what a ride but here we are. Buckle up my friend!

Ryytter

DCA absolutely is wonderful. I just happened to get a lump sum and needed to place it and was not happy buying at the ATH since I got destroyed in 2017 doing that exact thing. It's probably cognitive dissonance to some extend but I feel better placing my lump sum in crypto over 1-2 years especially now that the market has tanked significantly. I didnt want to risk a 90% loss on my lump sum this time around. It seems it was a good decision this time. But it's easy to be clever in hindsight. It gives me peace of mind which has some real value to me. Even if just buying gives better long term returns I prefer DCA'ing my lump sum slowly in the bear market.

Arbiter_89

Eh, this cycle was roughly 2x the previous ATH Before that it was roughly 3x the previous ATH It hasn't been 10X the previous ATH in the past decade. Despite that, I gotta say, if it doubles again in 4 years it'd still be a much better investment than the S&P 500 as long as you can outlast the volitlity.

escodelrio

**Historical Bitcoin prices for today, February 25th:** 2026 - $66,571 2025 - $88,736 2024 - $51,733 2023 - $23,175 2022 - $39,214 2021 - $47,094 2020 - $9,342 2019 - $3,883 2018 - $9,665 2017 - $1,144 2016 - $425 2015 - $237 2014 - $136 2013 - $30.4 2012 - $4.8 2011 - $0.90 **Additional Stats:** Bitcoin's current market cap is $1.33 trillion. Bitcoin's current block height is 938297; with the average block time for the last 7 days being 9.76 minutes and the average block size for the last 7 days being 1.51MB. Bitcoin's average block time for the year 2026 is 10.26 minutes. Bitcoin's mining difficulty is currently 144.40 trillion; with the next difficulty adjustment anticipated on 05-Mar-2026 (within 1,159 blocks). The mining difficulty is currently expected to increase 1.7% to 146.85 trillion. Bitcoin's current block reward is 3.125₿, which is worth $208,034 per block. Bitcoin's average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days is $33.57M; with the average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days being $0.0325 per terahash per sec. The next Bitcoin halving is anticipated to happen between 26-Mar-2028 to 20-Apr-2028 (within 111,703 blocks); the block reward will fall to 1.5625₿. There are currently 24,019 reachable Bitcoin nodes. Bitcoin's average daily hashrate for the last 7 days is 1.034 zettahashes per second. Bitcoin's average daily trading volume for the last 7 days is $34.31 billion. Bitcoin's average daily number of transactions for the last 7 days is 475,594. Bitcoin's average transaction fee for the last 7 days is 2.49 sats/VB, with the average fee's USD amount being $0.34; with the median values being 0.56 sats/VB & $0.08 respectively. There are currently 19.99M ₿ in circulation, leaving 1.01M to be mined. There are currently 4.04M ₿ held by companies, governments, DeFi, and ETFs, representing 20.23% of circulating supply. There are currently 58,109,275 nonzero Bitcoin addresses that contain 164.53M UTXOs. Bitcoin's average daily price from 18-Jul-2010 to 25-Feb-2026 is $20,253. Bitcoin's average daily price for the year 2026 is $80,887. 1 US Dollar ($) currently equals: 1,502 satoshis; making 1 penny equal 15.02 sats. Bitcoin's minimum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $62,702.10 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $96,929.33 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's minimum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $60,074.20 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $97,860.60 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily decrease for the year 2026 was -$10,317.60 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily increase for the year 2026 was +$7,853.29 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's all-time high (intraday) was $126,198.07 on 06-Oct-2025. Bitcoin is down 47.25% from the ATH. Bitcoin has not reached an all-time high in 2026. It has been 142 days since the last ATH.

Ok_Trick_6

It wouldn’t change anything right now, since I’d just hold it until the next ATH. Then I’d sell it and buy a house, and maybe something else too.

Romanizer

That's interesting. Got any more info or sources on that? Would be good to see if their impact could be quantified. At least directly after ATH, it looked like coming more from Binance side.

-3229

Jane Street manipulated the Bitcoin market from it's ATH so Wall Street could load their bags. Inducing fear into retail investors cheating them out of ownership of bitcoin.

Serenaded

1000 IQ analysis here. Crypto is going to pump, here's why. It's not the fact it's down because cyclical or whatever, it's as simple as, next time it's going up, people are going to reasonably assume Ethereum will smash the ATH, therefore smartmoney will buy until it gets to the ATH and then they sell again.

5_yr_lurker

I love how nothing negative can be said about BTC here. Maybe we reached the ATH already? I don't know. I keep my month DCA going but could still be wrong.

Detailed23

It will hit an ATH again, just in 3 years or so.

Ryytter

There is always gonna be leveraged degenerates. Wallstreetbets is absolute machines at recruiting more monkeys 😆 Even at the bottom and the top there are still gonna be people trading at 1.000 leverage with grandma's pension. But yeah you are also correct that it's a bit funky we have fear index at ATH and we are only slowly drifting downwards. Bottom might be closer than anticipated 🤔 I'm just buying every month. So whether it is makes very little difference to me 🤷 I just want the average 2026 price and has positioned myself accordingly 👍

Newlife_40

BTC and the other crypto remind me a once in 4 year money grab big money uses to pump and go back to the retail well periodically. Doesn’t ever stay up to long and catches a lot of people’s money. It only moves up to ATH when banks pump it to get retail interested then pulls the wave out.

baIIern

Nobody knows man. All I know is that it's a better entry than months before around the ATH...

BakingBreadBB2

I need it to hit ATH this year pls

SophonParticle

Yes. It will probably hit $40-$60k before hitting new ATH in 2027.

i_love_bier

Bitcoin is basically down 50% from the ATH in 2025 so it might go lower but it might not. Best thing to do is buy now and continue to buy regardless of price. That way you don’t need speculate what the price will be

Coretron

I've never entertained the idea of buying mstr but it's looking good at a 75% discount from ATH. I also like that I feel like I could sell it once it rebounds whereas I wouldn't sell my coins.

egej

Bulls appear to have consolidated their base at or greater than 62, below 62 the major houses would be at risk of liquidity issues with some having exposure to runs and outright collapse. look at the buy patterns over the last 2-3 weeks. If your holding the HODL, if your bullish - As I am, its a great time to be buying. Keep in mond we already saw market capitulation - loss of over 50% of value off the ATH, expect continued sideways movement in price while new trade alliances being implemented without US participation go into effect. As market conditions stabilize demand for commodities and essentials, BTC will become much more essential in clearing international trade which will suck all liquidity out of BTC and send prices higher likely to send BTC to a huge Bull run. this is only my speculation, Do your own research, do not rely on my opinion when making financial decisions.

According-Dentist469

you know whats 10x harder than holding through the dip, its selling at ATH. Once you can do that then you deserve the profit

gowithflow192

Pretty close. I also bought more from last cycle's ATH as it went down to 15k but I spent most of closer to 69k. In the end it worked out to about a 2x for me.

bytewitco

Good call — yeah in a full bear (2022) single digits hit multiple times on the way down. The difference I'm watching: in 2022 we were 12+ months post-ATH with no institutional bid. Right now we're 4 months out with spot ETFs holding billions and RSI at historic lows on weekly + monthly. Context matters more than the number itself. But you're right that F&G alone isn't a buy signal — it's one data point, not the whole picture.

KCConnor

For your first cycle, 12 months after the ATH. After that... some form of DCA in perpetuity. You'll pretty much always be "up" after the first 4 year cycle. It won't matter if you buy the next ATH, or the one after that.

Fit-Poet6736

same here brother, stacking daily while the prices are still low and tbh, Nexo is the best platform to do so. as for the halving, don't think the cycle will be the same, so we need to wait a little bit before the new ATH

escodelrio

**Historical Bitcoin prices for today, February 24th:** 2026 - $62,855 2025 - $91,418 2024 - $51,571 2023 - $23,198 2022 - $38,333 2021 - $49,705 2020 - $9,650 2019 - $3,810 2018 - $9,813 2017 - $1,174 2016 - $425 2015 - $239 2014 - $174 2013 - $29.9 2012 - $5 2011 - $1.0 **Additional Stats:** Bitcoin's current market cap is $1.26 trillion. Bitcoin's current block height is 938125; with the average block time for the last 7 days being 9.76 minutes and the average block size for the last 7 days being 1.52MB. Bitcoin's average block time for the year 2026 is 10.29 minutes. Bitcoin's mining difficulty is currently 144.40 trillion; with the next difficulty adjustment anticipated on 05-Mar-2026 (within 1,331 blocks). The mining difficulty is currently expected to decrease 0.82% to 143.21 trillion. Bitcoin's current block reward is 3.125₿, which is worth $196,423 per block. Bitcoin's average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days is $34.3M; with the average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days being $0.0333 per terahash per sec. The next Bitcoin halving is anticipated to happen between 26-Mar-2028 to 20-Apr-2028 (within 111,875 blocks); the block reward will fall to 1.5625₿. There are currently 24,124 reachable Bitcoin nodes. Bitcoin's average daily hashrate for the last 7 days is 1.030 zettahashes per second. Bitcoin's average daily trading volume for the last 7 days is $33.45 billion. Bitcoin's average daily number of transactions for the last 7 days is 488,774. Bitcoin's average transaction fee for the last 7 days is 2.43 sats/VB, with the average fee's USD amount being $0.33; with the median values being 0.56 sats/VB & $0.08 respectively. There are currently 19.99M ₿ in circulation, leaving 1.01M to be mined. There are currently 4.04M ₿ held by companies, governments, DeFi, and ETFs, representing 20.23% of circulating supply. There are currently 58,088,370 nonzero Bitcoin addresses that contain 164.44M UTXOs. Bitcoin's average daily price from 18-Jul-2010 to 24-Feb-2026 is $20,245. Bitcoin's average daily price for the year 2026 is $81,125. 1 US Dollar ($) currently equals: 1,591 satoshis; making 1 penny equal 15.91 sats. Bitcoin's minimum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $62,702.10 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $96,929.33 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's minimum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $60,074.20 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $97,860.60 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily decrease for the year 2026 was -$10,317.60 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily increase for the year 2026 was +$7,853.29 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's all-time high (intraday) was $126,198.07 on 06-Oct-2025. Bitcoin is down 50.19% from the ATH. Bitcoin has not reached an all-time high in 2026. It has been 141 days since the last ATH.

Def_not_a_bot-_-

Once ₿ hit -50% from ATH I just doubled my DCA. It’ll stay there until it hits probably -35-40% of next cycles ATH where hopefully I have enough disposable income to do the same

ComeViejos

No. Selling all close to ATH wins, never had that luck

Bobbybobinsonbob

Fr, OP said “silver moved, bitcoin is down” In about 4 years silver went from $17 to $120 Also about 4 years bitcoin went from $15k to $126k They have both had very similar recent growths and drops from their ATH, yet says nothing about silvers volatility or that silver has failed as a store of value

BoringPassenger3647

Bitcoin to 30k in the upcoming months. More illegal tariffs and I wouldn’t be shocked at another war in the Middle East to drop prices down lower as well. 2026 will end with a new ATH but the first quarters will all account in massive drops and massive accumulation by whales

Glyzzza_

Yes, 2029 ATH is possible. History may rhyme, but structure evolves. Halvings and liquidity still matter, but ETFs and institutions change the dynamics.

MrGraveyards

It is probably what you'd expect. There are haters who always shout that it is dead when it is low (although is it low or low compared to the ATH? I mean A bitcoin i still worth a lot of money!). Then there are off course more people who see an opportunity and buy. It looks like it is dancing around a bottom and not going to go much lower (to me) so maybe the risk-reward looks really good to people who otherwise wouldn't have considered. If the worst case scenario is loose a few percent then it isn't so scary and people who don't know much about it start to Google 'how to buy Bitcoin?'.

watch-nerd

You're not guaranteed to make money by HODLing if you bought at ATH, either. Or at least not much.

JOliverScott

Auto-bought a little at 64k, a little more at 63k, and have limit orders to continue doing so all the way down to 50k if it goes that low. If you're in the party that thinks it's going to zero then why are you buying at all but if you think it'll zoom past the ATH eventually then why not buy now at low prices and be patient. 

ozera202

Coz we realised just because you hold crypto doesn’t mean it’s going to make you money in the next cycle ….. all the ppl that got burnt in 2021 are more burnt by 2025 with their bags didn’t even reach 50% of ATH this bull cycle . So much for Hodl principle . If btc is the only asset in crypto with holding then the whole asset class is boring and not worth the risk …. Better buy fucking Pokemon cards tbh then this POS cryto as a whole

watch-nerd

Assume 2025 ATH carries forward to 2030 with no increase other than inflation. Take the 5 year breakeven inflation rate of 2.4% and compound it, which gives you $142k price in 2030. 30k => 142k, which gives a CAGR of 36.47% over 5 years. Given the extra volatility of BTC vs stocks, this is the excess return range of what a rational investor should be aiming for to compensate for the increased volatility of BTC vs stocks.

cryptochris_b

Dude. It's 50% off from ATH. I'd say now is a good time

GalaxyS25Plus

When was the last time we had a green month? Not even when Bitcoin made an ATH ... lol

thisisyobee

Bear markets are a matter of opinion, but typically follow a >20% drop from an ATH

marxxy94

bear market doesn't start at ATH

Senior-Barnacle-5853

You didn't sell during ATH? not hating, just curious

thisisyobee

ATH was 5 months ago lol

Zaitobu

I think you are slightly downplaying the inherent risk of BTC investment. Your assumption is that the next bullrun *will* start at some point. There is a small but very real possibility that we have seen the ATH of Bitcoin already. At some point this will be true. It's a little disingenuous to present BTC as a risk-free investment in this way. It's still gambling.

GIGAbtcHodl

Wanted to buy 10BTC, but finger slipped and went for 40BTC instead. All jokes aside, it is a privilege to have Bitcoin at such a great price now. Yes, it is not as fun and confidence boosting as when it was at the ATH, but for stacking and long time strategy, it's a great time. This is why we never sold and kept buying

Hearasongofuranus

Counterargument: the BTC going up forever is ridiculous. Last year was insanely disappointing at a time when everything was supposed to make it moon. This year we're out of narratives and already -50% on literally zero news while everything else is ATH.

Mundane-Banana2122

Because BTC is going to 1 million apparently. You could say the same about any other appreciating asset, although probably with more confidence on the others. Even if BTC did go to 1 million (which if does happen, will take many, many years), there would be a higher concentrations of the rich than there is now under the fiat system. If the ATH doubles every 4 year cycle as it did this time, it would take 12 years to reach 1 million. We are seeing diminishing increases in multiple of price action per cycle though, so a better guide might be to say a 60k increase in ATH each 4 year cycle, in which case it would take around 58 years to get to 1 million. Or BTC might just go out of fashion, or become technologically defunct, and become worthless.

Odd-Rip-2782

Price going down is only about supply & demand dynamics: right now more sellers than buyers. Despite the dip, despite the price now at 50% of ATH. 2024/2025: BTC price was pushed up by the ETF promise. 2026: ETF tailwind has faded + everyone realised that BTC real life adoption is still near zero after almost 20 years (in comparison to the fast and widespread adoption of AI) and the long term (think 10/15 years time) value of BTC is 0 because quantum computing will hijack the blockchain.

Wonderful_Writer_133

That's my break even too. Bought in 1 year ago. I was so bullish after the ATH I used up my dry powder on 115k, 111k, 107k.... Now I'm limited how much I can buy at 63k and frankly don't want to catch anymore knives. I also own some MSTR. What a motley hapless lot we are. :)

Pimpwerx

This is consolidation. Mfers are going to laugh as fewer players own more BTC. And then the price will ATH. All this dip is doing it making it harder for others to get in in the future.

Known_Click

Bro we are not even in March and Bitcoin it’s about to dump more than 50% already from ATH with no relief rally in sight. We are just 5 months into the bear market, are you telling me that there its still more dump for the next 6 months? This Bear Market it’s being brutal so far considering we didn’t even had an catalyst to go down this much already in such short period of time.

mustscience

Stocks are near ATH, no bear market in sight. It’s only crypto that’s being hammered.

crazy_lolipopp

Officially 50% from ATH now

Jolly-Championship31

i think the winter is here.. if you didnt sell your bags during the pump up to 100 or 120k when euphoria was at ATH you're going to have to occupy yourselves for 9-12mths before we pump again. the cycle lives

kryptocrazy

Should of sold at ATH and bought again now

AdAcrobatic4002

Well.. it was at an all time high 4 months ago. What's changed outside of price for you to lose some much patience? the 45% drop since ATH's are small compared to previous times. So what's the problem? My bet on bitcoin is directional - I do not care for the swings and roundabouts today. Bitcoin rewards patience and nothing else.

enigma_music129

Lol I never said I'm more successful than Vitalik but why are you defending a guy that can't even pump his own coin? I say it again, no one actually uses ethereum so how is it anything more than a scam? Its strange how you're defending a billionaire who doesn't give a fuck about your existence. Eth couldn't even break its previous ATH in one of the biggest bullruns of all time, thats very sad.

Juice0188

Imagine bitcoin does hit another ATH (hopefully it doesn't, but for the sake of discussion it does), why would anyone buy a company whose only plan is to buy bitcoin but with a small and shitty software firm strapped to it? Even if you believed entirely in bitcoin, there's really no case for buying MSTR. 

McBurger

If you think it’s one of the core problems and not a feature, then you’re still new and in one of your first cycles. Because you’re partially right, there is always a sell barrier that gets formed at the previous ATH, but once it collapses that’s exactly what launches the catapult to the further levels beyond. All the people who just wanted to break even are gone and suddenly watch with FOMO as only the hodlers are left. It keeps replaying every time, you’ll see

gizram84

> I don't see a filthy rich future for MSTR just relying on passing of time. Really? You don't see it? So I'm your opinion, Bitcoin will never make a new ATH ever again? Ok buddy 👌

SurroundAccording535

BTC and NASDAQ correlation has been at historic highs over the past couple years. But BTC is down almost half from its peak while NASDAQ is near ATH. If it were purely a leveraged proxy, that gap doesn't make sense.

Jebne

Helping others aka telling people to buy at ATH and sell/wait for lower prices at the bottom.

NilNow

Yea - each cycle we’ve returned to the old ATH roughly 6 months earlier than the last one. So i think q4 2027 is reasonable here, given it was April 2024 last time. The ending on apathy admittedly threw me off though - i expected to end on euphoria. Oh well.

macetheface

The *expectation* was for it to top on euphoria like it always has. A blow off top. It didn't as recently evidenced. If global economy is in the pits as it was, any risk adverse investments will follow. Even so BTC still managed to get to an ATH. Because it didn't follow the 'normal' agenda everyone expected, now it's seen as failed overall and people say it's going to 0. Hence extreme sustained fear. Just kids with goldfish brains that don't understand how markets work.

Xhiw_

> that would be a 76% drop In 2018 it dropped 84% from ATH.

HyperbolicMathChambr

300k is just 2.34x the previous ATH, it's not a moonshot.

SkitZa

Only the people who come in ever bull market and buy ATH. I've been green for years.

Suguha_chan

Its because I bought at -50%, so it has to pretend/behave like its sitting at ATH

Suguha_chan

Uhm, we where at 69k in 2021 already. 30k would mean more than -50% down from the previous ATH

Zaitobu

The ones buying while everyone else is crying will be the ones making those 'I finally sold and bought a house / cleared my debts' posts in this sub at the next ATH.

mw4365

outside of the hope that you think it's gonna flash to ATH again and you promise yourself you'll take the money and run then, not sure. I don't research the shit tho so I dunno, I've just gone in and out of ETH a few times the past half decade and made some money. I sorta thought that was the point tbh 😂

Songrot

Problem is when it fails to go up ONCE it will break the entire belief. The jump from 60k ath to 120k ath last time was already seen as disappointment and the cycle being broken because of how low the increase was. But now the cycle seems still be here, so the ATH was really low without justification of the cycle being broken. If the next ATH is not coming or just 140k, then the entire bitcoin sees an exodus of investors. An asset that gives 10% for several years of waiting with high drops from 50-80%. People wont like that asset

Financial_Vanilla_47

I agree. I've watched wave after wave of suckers thinking any mention of downside is a "buy signal" and watched them get rekt repeatedly... Not over the course of a few weeks or months... I'm talking about the entire cycle... This cycle was NOT the same as previous cycles in fact if you are objective about it this cycle was the first one to confirm a terminal market cap until proven otherwise... You can't oscillate against an inflating dollar and think you're onto something that's just straight stupidity... You can't bet on a 10x when a whole cycle showed you that hasn't happened and the charts actually suggests continuous downside... In the entire cycle, BTC under permed gold and oscillated (at best) against it, while the rest of the market underpformerd almost any decent asset and oscillated against a devalued dollar, meaning ue it did indeed lose real value over an entire 4 year cycle... This is a confirmed pattern and would need to break ATH in market cap to be invalidated, but I'm sure Maxis and Moon Boys don't understand that it's possible for their little theories to have already been invalidated on multiple fronts.

RetiredAvocado

An argument can be made buying something at or near ATH, or buying something on 50% discount from ATH..

escodelrio

**Historical Bitcoin prices for today, February 23rd:** 2026 - $66,244 2025 - $96,274 2024 - $50,732 2023 - $23,947 2022 - $37,297 2021 - $48,824 2020 - $9,925 2019 - $4,143 2018 - $10,301 2017 - $1,167 2016 - $421 2015 - $239 2014 - $310 2013 - $29.8 2012 - $5 2011 - $0.90 **Additional Stats:** Bitcoin's current market cap is $1.32 trillion. Bitcoin's current block height is 937975; with the average block time for the last 7 days being 9.55 minutes and the average block size for the last 7 days being 1.54MB. Bitcoin's average block time for the year 2026 is 10.3 minutes. Bitcoin's mining difficulty is currently 144.40 trillion; with the next difficulty adjustment anticipated on 06-Mar-2026 (within 1,481 blocks). The mining difficulty is currently expected to decrease 2.44% to 140.88 trillion. Bitcoin's current block reward is 3.125₿, which is worth $207,011 per block. Bitcoin's average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days is $34.91M; with the average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days being $0.0338 per terahash per sec. The next Bitcoin halving is anticipated to happen between 26-Mar-2028 to 20-Apr-2028 (within 112,025 blocks); the block reward will fall to 1.5625₿. There are currently 24,482 reachable Bitcoin nodes. Bitcoin's average daily hashrate for the last 7 days is 1.032 zettahashes per second. Bitcoin's average daily trading volume for the last 7 days is $30.98 billion. Bitcoin's average daily number of transactions for the last 7 days is 499,112. Bitcoin's average transaction fee for the last 7 days is 2.34 sats/VB, with the average fee's USD amount being $0.32; with the median values being 0.49 sats/VB & $0.07 respectively. There are currently 19.99M ₿ in circulation, leaving 1.01M to be mined. There are currently 4.04M ₿ held by companies, governments, DeFi, and ETFs, representing 20.23% of circulating supply. There are currently 58,119,100 nonzero Bitcoin addresses that contain 164.48M UTXOs. Bitcoin's average daily price from 18-Jul-2010 to 23-Feb-2026 is $20,237. Bitcoin's average daily price for the year 2026 is $81,494. 1 US Dollar ($) currently equals: 1,510 satoshis; making 1 penny equal 15.1 sats. Bitcoin's minimum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $62,702.10 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $96,929.33 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's minimum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $60,074.20 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $97,860.60 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily decrease for the year 2026 was -$10,317.60 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily increase for the year 2026 was +$7,853.29 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's all-time high (intraday) was $126,198.07 on 06-Oct-2025. Bitcoin is down 47.51% from the ATH. Bitcoin has not reached an all-time high in 2026. It has been 140 days since the last ATH.

Solareclipse9999

I want Bitcoin to hit another ATH so I can cash in a bit to help with my pension.

AmazingfurnitureCT

If you thinks it’s going to ATH’s what difference is $66k or $50k. What if it never drops and you miss the boat. DCA BTC every single day and chill.

TheHunterAmin

We are good. Bearmarket bottom is ~365 after the peak, so around october 2026 it should print a cycle bottom. Just buy (DCA) as much you can till then. As we topped on apathy instead of euphoria, we have also a less bearmarket correction. So that means the accumulation year should be also quicker at the highs again. Lets say end 2027 BTC sits at 100k-ish. Then we have January 1st 2028 the snapshot, we have again in Q1 a new BTC ATH before the April 2028 halving and range again from 130k to 100k for month like March-Sept 2024. Then end 2028 the parabolica starts.. But anyway that tax law first need to pass senate this week.

Either_Phase_7951

If you base on historical data, you should factor in that this cycle ATH was also way lower than previous ones and thus this might already be the lowest it goes or close to it.

DANGERD0OM

To lower my average buy amount and realise bigger gains when we return to ATH. Simple

Known_Click

The fact that we dumped 50% from ATH and he still hasn’t said a single word about it already tells you that he doesn’t give a f

RecklessStallion9999

It’s already 50% off its ATH price from 3 months ago, and no one knows how long it will stay at this point. It may be until the end of the year, until the end of the summer or until the end of May for all we know.

MrMagicMushroomMan

5 years is too long and doesnt follow the pattern. 2029 should be next bull market top which is 3 years away. Current ATH of 126k will be broken before the next cycle top, im going with 2028, or maybe late 2027 when ATH is surpassed

userxtrustno1

Since then, BTC will retrace to the previous ATH. So we can only be optimistic from there.

caccamo88

15% tax and I'll bet you sold at ATH

PositiveUse

So it fell below last cycles ATH…

cyclicalwand

Historically the bottom comes 1 year after the ATH. Should bottom out around October then consolidate for a year before a new bull phase.

TieGold9301

like literally look at last year it was just 6 months b/w the bottom and ATH

Necromancer1899

It's impossible to predict the bottom, but it's quite likely that BTC hasn't bottomed out yet. Not even a 50% drop from ATH.

Necromancer1899

Yes. Start investing on Crypto again once BTC is close to it's new ATH.

Emergency_Scheme_670

I did DCA. And XRP still hasn’t broken its price ATH in 9 years 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I’ve made great great money in crypto, but not thanks to XRP. Sorry if you’re in it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to most

Miserable_Twist1

Yeah, so cherry pick your buy and sell times. That works for any price below the ATH. What kind of dumb argument is that? Yes if you are a swing trader, May 2021 was a good entry price, if you happened to exit at the second peak. June 2022 was garbage regardless of how you cut, it went sideways for a year, you had an entire year to pick up cheap BTC and you could have put money into more productive assets over that time.

usedmattress85

Your optimism has no effect either way. BTC will always top 12-18 months post halving and then bottom 12-18 months post top. Narratives change and every time people say, “this time it’s different”….its never different. We will chop sideways with some relief rallies and then dive into the ultimate bottom sometime around Octoberish. Then begin the slow climb back to new ATH from there. Round and round she goes.

IrregularSweetRoll

Bitcoin failed to do the one thing it was suppose to do, hold value when the markets crash and with the weakening of the dollar, it has failed to do that. These Bitcoin bros encourage each other to hold, and then end up selling at an ATH, never actually using it as a currency. They don't want to admit that it follows the market closer than what they think it does. It went from a peer to peer coin to digital gold. It is useless outside of its value.

drezbz

Guys… do you notice how every day on social media it’s the same topics popping up? ‘What if BTC goes to zero?’ ‘What if ETH goes to zero?’ We’re basically in the fear‑zone era, where everything suddenly feels like it has zero value and everyone flips into panic mode. But then when we’re at ATH, those same people swear it’s going x10 from here. Just an interesting little time window we’re living in right now.

JOliverScott

If it hits a new ATH Then BTC promises the most ROI but as a percentage it's not even the most rewarding it's just the most profitable. If you were to buy one $70,000 BTC or 70,000 of a $1 coin, there are some $1 coins that will return more if they reach there ATH. The difficulty is that only BTC has shown consistent cyclical activity versus many of the cryptocurrencies had one brief spike when they were young but have not lived up to that potential again.

NilNow

It’s. A. Bear. Market. So no, for right now, there won’t be more hype and fomo and to the moon mania. This is how bear markets work. It doesn’t mean crypto is fading away. It hasn’t been a nonstop FOMO parade for the last 15 years - these do happen from time to time. I don’t believe it will last forever. These never have. But i also don’t think we’re setting up a major recovery (save for maybe a minor relief bump in spring). My opinion is that we’ll return to ATH sooner than the last time which was sooner than the time before that, but still not for at least another 12-18 months most likely. Maybe longer.

KristianME

It might be a response to it. But it is clearly not working as intended. Today crypto is a risk on asset, that requires a general faith in the economy. When we get a stable president, thats not creating headlines constantly. We might see a new ATH. In the meantime, my advice is to exploit the chaos he creates and buy stocks and crypto for cheap. Just hope he doesnt damage the economy so much that we lose global economic dominance, that trend already starting.

financeguruIB

Crazy how it’s literally at 2021 ATH and we are at extreme fear. I’m so so bullish

PickleMortyCoDm

I have heard this before... It's always "dead" after it hits an ATH.

escodelrio

**Historical Bitcoin prices for today, February 22nd:** 2026 - $67,526 2025 - $96,578 2024 - $51,305 2023 - $24,189 2022 - $38,286 2021 - $54,207 2020 - $9,663 2019 - $4,006 2018 - $10,005 2017 - $1,117 2016 - $438 2015 - $236 2014 - $256 2013 - $30.3 2012 - $4.4 2011 - $0.90 **Additional Stats:** Bitcoin's current market cap is $1.35 trillion. Bitcoin's current block height is 937846; with the average block time for the last 7 days being 9.34 minutes and the average block size for the last 7 days being 1.57MB. Bitcoin's average block time for the year 2026 is 10.33 minutes. Bitcoin's mining difficulty is currently 144.40 trillion; with the next difficulty adjustment anticipated on 06-Mar-2026 (within 1,610 blocks). The mining difficulty is currently expected to decrease 3.85% to 138.84 trillion. Bitcoin's current block reward is 3.125₿, which is worth $211,020 per block. Bitcoin's average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days is $35.33M; with the average daily miners' revenue for the last 7 days being $0.0339 per terahash per sec. The next Bitcoin halving is anticipated to happen between 26-Mar-2028 to 20-Apr-2028 (within 112,154 blocks); the block reward will fall to 1.5625₿. There are currently 25,159 reachable Bitcoin nodes. Bitcoin's average daily hashrate for the last 7 days is 1.041 zettahashes per second. Bitcoin's average daily trading volume for the last 7 days is $34.16 billion. Bitcoin's average daily number of transactions for the last 7 days is 523,746. Bitcoin's average transaction fee for the last 7 days is 2.3 sats/VB, with the average fee's USD amount being $0.31; with the median values being 0.49 sats/VB & $0.07 respectively. There are currently 19.99M ₿ in circulation, leaving 1.01M to be mined. There are currently 4.05M ₿ held by companies, governments, DeFi, and ETFs, representing 20.23% of circulating supply. There are currently 58,104,281 nonzero Bitcoin addresses that contain 164.58M UTXOs. Bitcoin's average daily price from 18-Jul-2010 to 22-Feb-2026 is $20,229. Bitcoin's average daily price for the year 2026 is $81,779. 1 US Dollar ($) currently equals: 1,481 satoshis; making 1 penny equal 14.81 sats. Bitcoin's minimum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $62,702.10 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (closing) price for the year 2026 was $96,929.33 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's minimum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $60,074.20 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's maximum (intraday) price for the year 2026 was $97,860.60 on 14-Jan-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily decrease for the year 2026 was -$10,317.60 on 05-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's largest daily increase for the year 2026 was +$7,853.29 on 06-Feb-2026. Bitcoin's all-time high (intraday) was $126,198.07 on 06-Oct-2025. Bitcoin is down 46.49% from the ATH. Bitcoin has not reached an all-time high in 2026. It has been 139 days since the last ATH.

Bigshift-2034

Definitely a good starting point as long you can keep DCA all the way down and then up to 30% below BTC ATH. If you want to do one of buys then I would suggest to wait. So far it’s chopping sideways, only enter if you plan to play long game.

JustifiablePA

if you want fiat, use your BTC as collateral for a loan. selling an asset is foolish, selling the best performing asset of the last 17 years is idiotic, selling at -45% from ATH means you don't understand what you own. reconsider your decision, find a solution where you can keep all of your BTC and hold your own keys. I suggest finding a local Bitcoin meetup, talk to other folks in your community and get advice for services they use, specific to your locality