Bitcoin returned -64.2% in 2022 in United States Dollar terms, not including any transaction fees. On January 1, 2022, Bitcoin opened* at $46,311.75, and closed* December 31, 2022 at $16,547.50 a coin.
* Bitcoin trades continuously so there is no traditional open and close, only an open and close trade of a year. Prices are based on CoinMarketCap data, sourced from Yahoo! Finance.
The 2022 Bitcoin Return: Look Out Below
Like most risk assets in 2022, bitcoin plunged quite a bit. It hit a high of $47.881.41 on January 2nd, 2022, but declined pretty steadily from there throughout the remainder of the year. The low of $15,599.05 was seen in a trade on November 21, 2021.
You can try our our bitcoin return calculator to see return between any two arbitrary dates. You can optionally adjust for inflation, measured by CPI.
