Bitcoin (BTC) lastly closed a month with constructive value efficiency for the primary time since September, however it solely snapped its five-month dropping streak by the slimmest of margins.
BTC opened the month at $67,000 and closed at $68,221. In different phrases, the whole “gain” amounted to about $1,200 per coin, or 1.8%.
For context, BTC typically fluctuates by that quantity inside a couple of minutes on a median day.
Energized by even essentially the most pitiful shred of proof that the crypto bear market could be ending, the BTC neighborhood celebrated the momentum shift.
The Concern and Greed Index hit an all-time low of 5 out of 100 on February 6, 2026. It’s now a lot increased, for those who squint a bit much less, at 31.
Bitcoin’s total March “gain” amounted to about $1,200 per coin, or 1.8%.
One much less unhealthy month for BTC
The streak that preceded March’s flicker of positivity was genuinely ugly.
BTC was value greater than $126,000 on October 6, 2025. By February 6, it had collapsed to $60,000.
Latest month-to-month losses have been relentless. Whole crypto market capitalization fell by $200 billion in October, $610 billion in November, $110 billion in December, $300 billion in January, and $350 billion in February.
March paused that decimation with a $40 billion achieve, the slimmest of margins.
Nonetheless, at the least it’s not as unhealthy as its absolute worst second this 12 months.
BTC is 14% increased than its $59,930 low set on February 6. It’s even rallied a bit because the onset of a sometimes bearish conflict and macro atmosphere.
The response on social media revealed simply how determined BTC merchants had change into for any glimmer of hope.
Bitcoin Journal introduced the inexperienced shut with a breathless all-caps alert, as if BTC hadn’t simply spent half a 12 months dropping almost half its worth.
One well-liked account referred to as it a “massive dose of hopium” earlier than including, maybe properly, “Let’s hope this is not an April Fools’ joke.”
The longest steady month-to-month bear streak previous to this stretch was a six-month lengthy pink streak from August 2018 via January 2019.
BTC is in the present day priced at $68,300, 46% beneath its October excessive and 23% decrease 12 months up to now.
