The bitcoin price fell below $67,000 overnight into Saturday and is at its lowest level since mid-August. Early on Saturday morning, at around 4:50 a.m. Central European Time, one bitcoin cos
The bitcoin price fell below $67,000 overnight into Saturday and is at its lowest level since mid-August. Early on Saturday morning, at around 4:50 a.m. Central European Time, one bitcoin cost about $66,900 according to CoinGecko, or roughly €60,600. That is a drop of just over 3 percent in 24 hours and almost 12 percent in a week.
Since the last price report on Friday afternoon, when bitcoin was trading at the 200-week line at around $68,100, the price has given up almost another 2 percent. Sentiment has sunk to its lowest reading of the past few days, and the crypto market heads into the weekend without stock markets as a counterweight. This article puts the figures in context, sets out the levels that now matter and explains what to keep in mind when selling, buying more or holding a leveraged position.
Based on CoinGecko's daily values, bitcoin was last lower on August 19, 2026, at $64,686. A recovery followed that carried the price above $83,000 in early October. That move has now been almost entirely reversed. Thirty days ago, on October 16, bitcoin still cost $82,156; the loss since then is 18.5 percent. On November 8 it stood at $75,776.
Since the start of the year the decline adds up to just over 23 percent: on January 1, 2026, the daily value was $87,575. Bitcoin is thus about 47 percent below its record high of $126,080 from October 2025. The low of the past twelve months is $58,566, set on July 1, 2026.
The Defiant gives a precise time for the break below $67,000: on Coinbase, bitcoin fell as low as $66,789 on Friday evening New York time, around 3:30 a.m. Central European Time on Saturday. The platform had not seen lower trading since October 17, the trade publication reported in a piece republished by Crypto News.
cryptoticker.io compiled the analysis of 365 days of daily values, the monthly and weekly comparisons and the moving averages in this article itself on November 14, 2026. It is based on CoinGecko's daily closing prices in dollars and euros.
For investors in the euro area, the euro price is what counts. At around €60,600, bitcoin is just above a round number it last fell below on August 20, when the day closed at €59,353. It is currently about €600, or roughly 1 percent, away from €60,000.
Because the dollar has firmed slightly over the past 24 hours, the decline in euros is a little smaller than in dollars. The gap is narrow, though: over 24 hours bitcoin lost around 2.6 percent in euros and just under 3 percent in dollars. The twelve-month low in euros is €51,474, also from July 1, 2026.
Round numbers such as €60,000 have no fundamental significance. Many retail investors nonetheless place buy or sell orders there, and stop orders cluster just below. A stop order is an order that sells automatically as soon as the price reaches a set threshold. If such a cluster is triggered, the price can fall faster in the short term than the news flow would explain.
The alternative.me Fear and Greed Index stands at 13 points on Saturday. The index combines volatility, trading volume, market dominance and other data into a value between 0 and 100; anything below 25 counts as extreme fear. On Friday the reading was 20, on Thursday 28 and on Wednesday 29. Sentiment has therefore more than halved within two days.
A reading of 13 says nothing about where the price goes next. It describes how the market is trading right now: sellers are in control and buyers are waiting. Such phases can last days or weeks. Anyone reading the index as a signal should therefore never use it alone, but together with price levels and capital flows.
Leveraged long positions accounted for most of Friday's liquidations.
A liquidation is the forced sale of a leveraged position by the exchange once the collateral posted no longer covers the losses. Anyone betting on rising prices with ten-times leverage, for example, loses their collateral after a drop of around 10 percent. The exchange then closes the position itself, selling into a falling market.
cryptoticker.io recorded how large this effect was on Friday in its crypto news of November 13, 2026: according to CoinGlass data, crypto futures worth $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion were liquidated within 24 hours, depending on when the measurement was taken. The vast majority hit traders who had bet on rising prices. Each forced liquidation pushes the price down and can drive the next position below its collateral threshold. Traders call this a liquidation cascade.
Besides leverage, the market lacks fresh money. In a report dated November 11, the analytics firm Glassnode cited two figures that The Defiant picked up. The circulating supply of stablecoins shrank by $14.2 billion in the 30 days to November 9. Stablecoins are dollar-pegged tokens that investors use to buy on crypto exchanges; when their supply falls, less money is available for purchases. Over the same 20 trading days, US spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $1.6 billion.
A spot ETF holds real bitcoin as backing. When investors withdraw money, the fund usually sells bitcoin, and that selling pressure adds to the liquidations. The Defiant expressly notes that both figures were collected before Friday's decline and do not explain it on their own.
The same analysis also shows a countermovement: Glassnode sees buying from wallets holding between 100 and 10,000 bitcoin. This group includes large private investors, funds and companies. The other cohorts, by contrast, have continued to reduce their holdings. If you prefer to hold bitcoin through an exchange-traded product, our overview buying crypto ETFs explains the differences between ETFs, ETNs and ETPs.
Friday afternoon's slide was triggered by a figure from Washington. As cryptoticker.io reported on November 13, 2026, US producer prices for October rose 6.5 percent year on year; the narrower core rate came in at 4.9 percent. The producer price index measures how companies' selling prices develop and is seen as a leading indicator of consumer inflation.
High inflation figures make it more likely that the US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates high or raises them. Bitcoin pays neither interest nor dividends. When yields on safe government bonds rise, holding bitcoin becomes less attractive by comparison. A stronger dollar works in the same direction, because bitcoin, priced in dollars, becomes more expensive for buyers using other currencies.
Bitcoin trades around the clock, including on Saturdays and Sundays. The large players from equity markets are largely absent at weekends, however, and US spot ETFs only take in or return money again on Monday. The order book, the list of all open buy and sell orders on an exchange, is therefore thinner than during the week.
In a thin market, even smaller sales move the price noticeably. That works both ways: declines can accelerate at weekends, and brief recoveries can just as quickly fizzle out once ETF flows and the stock market return on Monday.
Until Monday, the bitcoin market lacks ETF flows and equity trading to set the pace.
On the upside, the first level is at around $68,000. That is where the 200-week line runs, the average of weekly closing prices over almost four years, which bitcoin broke below on Friday. Above that come $70,000 as a round number and the 200-day average at around $73,000. The 50-day average, at around $80,200, is far away.
On the downside, €60,000, or about $66,100, is the next threshold. Below that lies the daily value of August 19 at $64,686. The most important level on a yearly view is the July 1 low of $58,566. If bitcoin falls below it, the price will be at its lowest in more than a year. Analysts' longer-term scenarios are summarised in our bitcoin price prediction.
If you want to buy more after the drop, check the exchange first. Since the European crypto regulation MiCA came into force, providers that trade or hold crypto-assets for customers in the EU need authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider. Whether an exchange has it is shown in the public register of the European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA. Which providers are authorised is set out in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges.
A second point is custody. Bitcoin held on an exchange legally belongs at first to the provider's customer holdings. If you hold larger amounts for the long term, you can transfer them to your own wallet and then manage the access credentials yourself.
Leveraged positions call for particular caution in a market gripped by extreme fear. The distance to the liquidation price shrinks with every percent the price falls, and at weekends the price can run there faster in thin order books. If you trade futures or perpetual contracts, meaning futures without an expiry date, you will find the differences in fees and collateral in our comparison of perp DEX platforms. Selling at a loss can also have tax consequences depending on where you live; crypto tax software keeps track of your cost basis.
(As of November 14, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
