Bitcoin fell overnight to the price it had exactly five years ago. On November 15, 2021, one bitcoin cost about $63,558. During the weekend selloff it dropped as low as $61,946, roughly 2.5% below that level, before recovering to about $65,486, around 3% above it, at the time of Crypto Insiders’ report.
The path in between was dramatic. Bitcoin fell below $16,000 in 2022, then recovered strongly and reached a record of $126,000 in October 2025. In October 2026 it still traded above $80,000, but this week’s decline erased most of that. For buyers the timing matters: those who bought near the 2021 peak have almost no profit after five years, while those who bought in the 2022 slump are still well ahead.
Ether did much worse. It went from about $4,557 on November 15, 2021 to about $1,828, a loss of nearly 60%. In 2021 one ether cost about 7.2% of a bitcoin; now it is about 2.8%.
US stocks moved the other way. The S&P 500 rose from 4,682.80 to 7,561.67 points over the same period, a gain of more than 61%. The comparison uses index levels and dollar prices only; dividends are not included. On that measure the S&P 500 is well ahead of both bitcoin and ether after five years.
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