Bitcoin lost almost 18% in February

February 2025 was a difficult month for the crypto market, as bitcoin BTC $86,700.72 Bitcoin -8.24% Market capitalization $1.72 trillion VOL. 24 hours $5.42 billion and Ethereum ETH $2,153.42 Bridged Ether (StarkGate) -14.00% Market capitalization $0.19 billion VOL. 24 hours $2.55 billion suffered significant price losses. The market leader ended the month with a 17.39% drop, while Ethereum lost almost a third of its value — 31.95%. Such a sharp decline raised fears of a further market correction, especially given historical data showing that a negative February is often followed by a decline in March.

Interestingly, February is usually a profitable month for BTC — over the past 13 years, it has only seen a decline in this period three times. For example, in 2014, bitcoin lost 31% in a month, which was a record drop for February. However, in early March, BTC began to recover, adding 1.22% in the first 10 hours of the new month and breaking the $ 86,000 mark.

Ethereum also ended February in the red with the worst monthly result in the history of February observations. Previously, the largest drop in this period occurred in 2018, when the asset lost 24%, and the following March was even worse — when ETH fell by 53.8%. So far in 2025, since the beginning of March, the Ethereum rate has been fluctuating around $ 2,281, but without significant changes.

Nevertheless, some analysts believe that a 30% correction of bitcoin is quite normal for a bull cycle. CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said that such fluctuations should not cause panic among investors. At the same time, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes warned that BTC could fall to $ 70,000 due to the active sale of ETFs by hedge funds that use the difference between the spot and futures markets.

Binance CEO Richard Teng also reacted to the situation, urging investors not to panic. In his opinion, the current market movements are a natural part of the crypto market cyclicality, and we should expect further recovery after the correction.