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Distance from the all-time high in 2018

How far bitcoin trades below its highest price to date, every day since 2013.

Below all-time high opened 2018 at -30.1% (January 1, 2018) and closed at -79.9% (December 31, 2018), up 165.3%. The high was -14.4% on January 8, 2018 and the low -82.5% on December 14, 2018.

Below all-time high, month by month in 2018

MonthMonth end
January 2018-44.4%
February 2018-46.2%
March 2018-60.9%
April 2018-50.3%
May 2018-60.6%
June 2018-67.9%
July 2018-56.8%
August 2018-63.0%
September 2018-65.1%
October 2018-66.7%
November 2018-78.8%
December 2018-79.9%

Zero means bitcoin closed at a new record that day; −50% means it was worth half its best price so far. Every cycle has had a deep one — more than 80% in 2015 and 2018, about 77% in 2022 — and every one of them was eventually made back in full.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2018: Bitcoin price · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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