Bitcoin's Brutal February: Worst Monthly Performance in Nearly Three Years
Bitcoin is closing out February 2026 in deeply bruised shape, cementing what analysts are calling its steepest monthly decline since the infamous crypto winter of June 2022. The world's largest cryptocurrency has shed roughly 24% of its value this month alone, trading near $62,557 a stark reversal from the dizzying heights of $109,000 it reached just weeks into January.
The slide is part of a broader losing streak, with Bitcoin now on track for a fifth consecutive monthly decline — its longest such run since 2018, when