Analysts say the native cryptocurrency has drifted toward the lower end of its recent trading range, with any price rise offset by selling from investors who bought the largest cryptocurrency near its all-time high reached in early October.
The native cryptocurrency has been drifting toward the lower end of its recent trading range, with any price rise offset by selling from investors who bought the largest cryptocurrency near the all-time high reached in early October, analysts say. Bitcoin fell as much as 3.3 percent to $85.5787 on Monday, and is down about 30 percent from its all-time high of over $126,000.
“We have continued to trade this highly volatile range between 85k-94k in BTC, with a continued lack of interest and low volumes in general in the crypto markets,” said Bohan Jiang, senior derivatives trader at FalconX.
The largest cryptocurrency has continued to fall along with other risky assets in recent weeks but has not recovered when it did, breaking the usual upward correlation. The slide highlights what analysts see as a market under pressure from weak liquidity and declining risk appetite, even after the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week failed to revive momentum in digital assets.
The last full trading week of 2025 started with stocks, bonds and the dollar wobbly, as Wall Street braced for key economic data that will help shape the Federal Reserve’s interest rate outlook.
“I would say BTC/crypto in general continues to track weakness in the stock markets, with the sell-off in sync with the stock market as they opened higher and moved lower during the US session,” Jiang said.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. not stop you from buying more Bitcoin. The original digital asset treasury company said earlier Monday that it has acquired nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin for the second week in a row.
The majority of Strategy’s most recent acquisitions were made using proceeds from on-market sales of Class A common stock. Critics of Saylor’s model have raised concerns that selling the stock would dilute shareholders’ existing equity and erode the formally high premium the shares commanded over their now roughly $59 billion in Bitcoin holdings. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company also sold shares of three of its four classes of perpetual preferred stock to finance the purchases.
Other cryptocurrencies fell further on Monday. Ether, Doge and XRP each fell about 5 percent, while shares of crypto-related companies also fell. The strategy fell more than 8 percent and Coinbase Global Inc. fell by almost 6 percent.
Bitcoin hit a low of about $74,400 in 2025 in April after President Donald Trump’s initial pricing plan roiled global financial markets.
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Published on December 16, 2025
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