{"id":64374,"date":"2025-11-20T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bitcoin-loses-yearly-gains-why-and-what-next"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:50:05","slug":"bitcoin-loses-yearly-gains-why-and-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bitcoin-loses-yearly-gains-why-and-what-next","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Loses Yearly Gains: why and what Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>As global markets reel from renewed US tariffs, persistent inflation fears, and fading hopes for deeper interest rate cuts, the volatility sweeping traditional finance is now hitting the cryptocurrency world \u2013 dragging Bitcoin back below its starting level for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the sharp reversal reflects a broader shift: crypto no longer behaves like an alternative safe haven, but moves increasingly in sync with macroeconomic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are no longer \u201ca hedge against market risk,\u201d and \u201cnow more closely track the rest of the market,\u201d said Bill Maurer, director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because of increasing uncertainty across the markets, because of all the chaos unleashed by trade wars, inflation, geopolitical fears, worries about the Fed not further cutting rates in the US, a wobbly jobs market, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investors are de-risking across the board, he added, and \u201cwhat was always a volatile market for crypto is now more so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Harvey, professor of finance at Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business, echoed the point: \u201cIn a risk-off situation, people dump their risky assets like stocks and bitcoin. That\u2019s what is happening today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he argues there is another shift underway: \u201cPeople are realizing that there is more to the crypto space than Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 rally wiped out<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market had climbed steadily after US President Donald Trump began his second term in January, promising to make the US \u201ca crypto heaven.\u201d But that optimism faded as trade tensions flared.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin \u2013 which began the year at $93,540 \u2013 fell to $74,500 in April, weighed down by uncertainty surrounding Trump\u2019s reciprocity-based tariffs. It rebounded when tariff anxieties eased and the Federal Reserve began signaling interest rate cuts, surging to a record high of $126,200 in October. At that peak, Bitcoin\u2019s year-to-date gains topped 35%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the rally proved short-lived. With rate-cut expectations weakening and global markets turning risk-averse, Bitcoin slipped sharply, hitting around $89,000 on Wednesday \u2013 its lowest level since April, and below where it started the year. The drop erased all of Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 gains.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin has lost 15.14% over the past month, and 6.3% over the last year. As of Thursday (0745GMT), it was trading at $92,020, down around 2.2% year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum, which ranks second in terms of market capitalization, mirrored the decline, falling to $3,030 after starting the year at $3,345.<\/p>\n<p>A weekly report from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode said Bitcoin is now entering \u201ca period of consolidation,\u201d noting oversold conditions and slowing investor outflows. \u201cThe emergence of exhaustion signals suggests the market may be forming a local bottom around the $94K-$100K range,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018Fasten your seatbelt\u2019: Volatility is nothing new<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While the recent fall has rattled investors, Harvey says the pattern is familiar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically we have seen multiple episodes of large drawdowns in Bitcoin. There have been six episodes where Bitcoin dropped by more than 60% \u2013 so fasten your seatbelt,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, one commonality is that Bitcoin recovered and continued to appreciate every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet he noted that the conversation in the digital asset space is shifting toward stablecoins \u2013 digital currencies backed by assets like the US dollar \u2013 which he calls the \u201cfirst killer app\u201d of crypto and \u201chas nothing to do with Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvey also pointed to backlash over corporate investment schemes: \u201cI think there was a lot of negative reactions to these Digital Asset Treasuries like Strategy and the copycats. Why gamble a firm\u2019s cash reserves and an asset four times as risky as the stock market?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. As global markets reel from renewed US tariffs, persistent inflation fears, and fading hopes for deeper interest rate cuts, the volatility sweeping traditional finance is now hitting the cryptocurrency world \u2013 dragging Bitcoin back below its starting level for the year. 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