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📉 Current Bear Market Status (Feb 2026)
Major drawdowns in price and sentiment:
$BTC Bitcoin recently lost about 50% of its value from its all-time high (~$126,000 in October 2025), with prices dipping below $64,000 and briefly even near $60,000 before a short rebound.
Analysts are calling this phase “full capitulation” as large holders and institutions reduce positions and forced liquidations increase.
Galaxy analysts noted the drawdown was nearing 40%, suggesting potential for lower prices.
This scale of decline — though large — is shallower in percentage terms than some historical bear markets.$BTC #BTCDowntrend #MarketCorrection #RiskAssetsMarketShock

Bitcoin's Latest Rout: What's Behind the Decline?
The cryptocurrency market is experiencing significant turbulence, with Bitcoin and Ethereum facing their sixth consecutive month of losses. ETH has lost half its value since its all-time high in August, while Bitcoin continues to struggle amid mounting pressures.
Key Factors Driving the Decline:
According to Andrew O'Neill, analytical lead on Digital Assets at S&P Global, recent losses stem from the unwinding of leverage in the bitcoin perpetual futures market, combined with liquidity constraints driven by uncertainties over tariffs and Japanese interest rates.
Michael Burry's Stark Warning:
The legendary investor behind "The Big Short" has issued a dire prediction about Bitcoin's deepening bear market. In a recent Substack post, Burry argued that Bitcoin is emerging as a speculative trade rather than a serious asset for investors.
His analysis points to a potential $1 billion catastrophic sell-off in precious metals if Bitcoin continues declining. According to Burry, Bitcoin's recent drops triggered massive liquidations in tokenized silver and gold futures on crypto exchanges - assets traded using crypto as collateral but not backed by actual precious metals. This has sent traditional derivatives into a wider spiral.
Critical Price Levels & Institutional Risk:
Burry warns that Bitcoin breaking below $60,000 would create an "existential crisis" for Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate BTC holder with 713,502 Bitcoin. At $50,000, miners would face bankruptcy and be forced to sell their reserves.
With BTC already down 17.74% monthly, these warnings reinforce negative sentiment. Strategy currently faces over $900 million in unrealized losses, yet the company purchased an additional 855 BTC on Monday.
The Fundamental Issue:
According to Burry, there's no organic use case for Bitcoin to halt its descent. Unlike gold or silver, the cryptocurrency has failed to respond to traditional drivers like geopolitical risks. With nearly 200 public companies holding Bitcoin and BTC treasury firms insufficient to support prices, the pressure continues.
Bitcoin ETFs have recorded some of their largest single-day outflows since late November, with three occurring in January's final 10 days. Burry predicts that if prices keep falling, corporate risk managers will advise companies to sell their Bitcoin holdings.
Market Update:
Bitcoin has slipped 3.17% in the past 24 hours, extending a 14.44% weekly drop amid broader crypto market declines.
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When I read Cantor Fitzgerald’s year-end outlook, I didn’t see it as purely bearish — I saw it as contextual.
Yes, the bank warns that Bitcoin could be heading into a longer downtrend, with the possibility of a “crypto winter” in 2026. Their view is that BTC may be approaching a cyclical peak and could remain under pressure in the months ahead, potentially even revisiting the $75,000 zone, close to Strategy’s average breakeven level.
But what stood out to me is how different this cycle looks compared to past downturns.
Cantor doesn’t frame this as a collapse driven by forced liquidations or systemic failures. Instead, they point to a structural shift: institutions are now the dominant participants, replacing the retail-driven speculation that defined earlier cycles. Price weakness, in this view, doesn’t necessarily reflect decay — it reflects digestion.
More importantly, there’s a growing gap between token prices and underlying progress. Even if prices cool, on-chain activity, DeFi infrastructure, and asset tokenization continue to move forward. That tells me the market is maturing, not resetting.
I don’t see this as the end of the crypto cycle.
I see it as a phase where valuation compresses while foundations strengthen — and historically, those are the periods that quietly shape the next expansion.
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