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NewsA quiet Friday morning for crypto prices masks a much rougher twelve months. Here is where Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP actually stand.
Bitcoin traded around $64,745 on the morning of August 7, 2026, up less than half a percent on the day and about 0.85% over the past month. The number that matters more: Bitcoin is down nearly 45% from where it stood a year earlier, when it traded above $117,000. Ethereum and XRP have followed a similar pattern.
Bitcoin traded at $64,744.92 at 5:30am ET on August 7, 2026, a gain of $235.07, or 0.36%, on the previous day. Zoom out and the picture changes: the same asset traded above $117,492 exactly a year earlier, a decline of nearly 45% over twelve months.
A 0.36% daily move is well within crypto's normal noise band. What day-to-day price coverage tends to obscure is that short-term crypto prices are, in the words of market reporting on this data, heavily driven by trader psychology and sentiment rather than any single fundamental catalyst on a given morning.
A one-year decline of this size does not by itself tell you whether an asset is undervalued, overvalued, or simply volatile — and nothing here is investment advice. If you hold or are considering holding crypto assets, the twelve-month number is the one worth sitting with longer than the morning's price tick.
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