Bitcoin drops 23.8% in Q1 2026, marking the worst start since 2018

金色财经_ · 2026-04-01T10:33:05+00:00

According to Golden Finance, Bitcoin's recent price has fallen sharply, dropping from $87,508 at the end of 2025 to $66,619, marking the largest quarterly decline since 2018. Over the past six months, Bitcoin's market capitalization has evaporated by approximately 41.6%. Additionally, the Middle East situation and ETF capital outflows have also negatively impacted the price.

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2026-04-01 10:33:05

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Golden Finance reported that on April 1, according to data from Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin closed on Tuesday at $66,619, while the opening price on January 1, 2026 was $87,508. The quarterly decline was the largest since Q1 2018, when Bitcoin fell from $14,112 to $6,973, down 50%.
Bitcoin’s 24% drop this quarter also continued the significant selloff in Q4 2025, when its price slipped 23% from $114,057 to $87,508. This means that over the past six months, this world’s largest cryptocurrency has wiped out about 41.6% of its market value.
The entire crypto market further retreated from its historical peak in October 2025 amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, weighing on investor sentiment toward both crypto and traditional stock markets. In addition to macroeconomic uncertainty, analysts also pointed to the negative impact on Bitcoin’s price from a reversal in flows into U.S. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
According to SoSoValue data, in the first quarter spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $496.5 million, including $1.8 billion in outflows over the first two months; inflows of $1.32 billion in March partially offset the prior outflows.

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