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Bitcoin price drops below $67,000, marking lowest level since Trump’s election

Published: 06 Feb. 2026, 11:50

An illustration photograph taken on Nov. 22, 2025, shows a gold-plated souvenir Bitcoin coin reflected in a mirror and arranged for a photograph in front of a computer screen displaying the Bitcoin monthly price chart. [AFP/YONHAP]

The price of bitcoin continued its monthslong slide Thursday, falling another 11 percent to $67,000, and is now worth less than it was when U.S. President Donald Trump was elected into his second term of office.

The original cryptocurrency, pitched as “digital gold,” has lost nearly half of its value since Oct. 6, 2025, when it hit a record high of $126,210.50, according to crypto trading platform Coinbase. As of 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the currency was trading at $66,301.

After the election of Trump in November of 2024, Bitcoin prices chugged higher for the better part of a year, in part due to investors' expectations of a more crypto-friendly administration in Washington. But those gains have now been erased.

The sell-off appears to be a combination of investors pulling out of speculative assets like gold, silver and digital currencies, as well as a concern about the future of cryptocurrency regulation in Washington, despite Trump heavily backing cryptocurrency companies since his election.

The White House hosted banks and cryptocurrency companies at an event this week to see if there could be common ground on pending legislation that would regulate stablecoins.

The cryptocurrency industry wants to be able to pay customers for holding their deposits in crypto or stablecoins, a move that the banking industry would absolutely oppose. Banks believe that cryptocurrency accounts providing a dividend or yield would take money out of the traditional banking system. Presently, it appears the bill is not going to move forward in Congress.

Bitcoin tokens are seen on April 3, 2013. [AP/YONHAP]

Companies that enable investors to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, as well as the growing number of companies that have made investing in bitcoin their main business focus, have also been hit hard in the recent sell-off. Coinbase Global fell 9.1 percent, and online trading platform Robinhood Markets lost 8.1 percent. Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms dropped 10 percent.

Strategy, the biggest of the so-called crypto treasury companies that raises money just to buy bitcoin, tumbled 13 percent. The company, formerly called MicroStrategy, reports on its website holdings of 713,502 bitcoin. With the average purchase prices for those above $76,000, it means the company is underwater on the investment. Thursday morning, its bitcoin holdings were worth about $47.8 billion, less than the $54.3 billion Strategy says they cost.

American Bitcoin, in which Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. hold a stake, fell 6.6 percent and is now down more than 80 percent since Oct. 7 last year.

Other Trump-related crypto ventures have declined as well. The market value for the World Liberty Financial token, or $WLFI, has fallen to about $3.25 billion from above $6 billion in mid-September, according to coinmarketcap.com. And the price of a meme coin named for President Trump, $TRUMP, is $3.93, a fraction of the $45 asking price just before his inauguration in January.

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