In 2025, bitcoin returned -6.33% in US dollar terms based on a buy-and-hold approach of buying the "opening" trade on January 1, 2025, and selling the "closing" trade of December 31, 2025. Those trades were, respectively, $93,425.10 and $87,508.83. That -6.33% return came after a blistering – that's the scientific term! – 120.98% return in 2024 and 155.41% in 2023.
2025 was a volatile year for bitcoin, which fits its historical pattern! On October 6, 2025, bitcoin set a new all-time high with a trade of $126,198.07. On April 7, 2025, it hit a yearly low of $74,436.68.
2025's Bitcoin Return: a Year of Consolidation
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Annual Bitcoin returns posts
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