Bitcoin 29 Percent Below Last Year: Which Crypto Losses You Can Still Use Before the One-Year Holding Period Expires

Anyone who bought into crypto assets twelve months ago is sitting on a paper loss almost everywhere today. On September 9, 2026 we compared the daily closing prices of ten major crypto assets against their level exactly one year earlier: nine of the ten trade lower, many of them sharply. For tax purposes this is the decisive moment, because in Germany a loss from a private disposal is only worth something when no more than one year lies between purchase and sale. Anyone who lets the deadline pass keeps the coin and loses the option of ever offsetting that loss against a gain. Bitcoin 29 Percent Below Last Year: Nine of Ten Major Coins Are in the Red The comparison is deliberately blunt. It sets the daily close of September 9, 2025 against the price level of September 9, 2026, which is exactly the day the one-year holding period expires for a purchase made back then. Bitcoin stood at $111,541 a year ago and trades at around $78,925 today. That is 29.2 percent less. Ethereum falls harder still, from $4,308.23 to $2,490.88, a decline of 42.2 percent. XRP lost 51.8 percent, Solana 52.3 percent, Chainlink 46.9 percent, Dogecoin 62.5 percent, Avalanche 69.5 percent and Cardano 74.8 perce...