Bitcoin Drops to 82,500 in Fourth Monthly Decline

Bitcoin's price has tumbled to around 82,500 as of late January 2026, marking a potential fourth consecutive monthly decline and raising concerns among investors about an impending market capitulation. The cryptocurrency, which peaked above 126,000 in October 2025, has lost nearly 7 percent in the past 24 hours alone, erasing much of its strong start to the year and testing key support levels near 81,000.

The downturn follows a period of heightened volatility that began with a major liquidation event on October 10, 2025, when over 19 billion in positions were unwound across exchanges. That episode, triggered by renewed tariff and export control announcements from Washington, shifted market dynamics from expansion to consolidation. Bitcoin's price has since traded within a narrow 10-week range between 84,000 and 94,000, with recent selling pressure concentrated in futures markets rather than spot trading. Data from CoinGlass shows more than 750 million in long positions liquidated in the latest drop, the highest since November 2025, while CryptoQuant reported a surge in taker sell volume to 4.1 billion over two hours.

Analysts attribute the weakness to a combination of...