Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $86,000 As December Starts: Why BTC Is Down Today And How This Selloff Differs From 2022
Published: December 1, 2025 Bitcoin kicked off December with another violent lurch lower, extending a painful autumn selloff that has already erased hundreds of billions of dollars from the crypto market. In early Monday trading, BTC fell around 5–6% over 24 hours, briefly slipping into the mid‑$85,000 range after having hovered near $91,000 just a day earlier. Ether, Solana, BNB, XRP and other majors dropped 5–8% in sympathy as total crypto market value slid to roughly $3.0–3.1 trillion. Bloomberg+2The Straits Times+2 The slump capped a bruising November in which Bitcoin lost more than 20%, is now down roughly a third