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Distance from the all-time high in 2021

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

Below all-time high opened 2021 at 0.0% (January 1, 2021) and closed at -30.0% (December 31, 2021), unchanged. The high was 0.0% on January 1, 2021 and the low -50.0% on July 19, 2021.

Below all-time high, month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 2021-17.8%
February 2021-17.0%
March 2021-1.4%
April 2021-15.7%
May 2021-40.8%
June 2021-46.0%
July 2021-33.6%
August 2021-25.1%
September 2021-31.9%
October 2021-5.9%
November 2021-15.1%
December 2021-30.0%

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 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2021: 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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