On Thanksgiving Day, which is celebrated in the United States today, investors in Bitcoin We should thank the crypto gods for positive returns. Despite complaints about a bad year in 2025, BTC has risen 450% in price over the past three years.
In different years, during the holiday period, Bitcoin dynamics turned out to be positive by 16%, as in 2011 and 2015, and sometimes showed a decline of 27% (in 2010).
In its early years, BTC was a much less valuable and more volatile asset, so double-digit gains and losses were common.
When exchanges like New Liberty Standard, BitcoinMarket, TradeHill, VirWoX, BTC-e and MtGox existed, Bitcoin often rose or fell by tens, even hundreds, of percentage points daily.
As volume and liquidity increased, its volatility decreased. Throughout the decade, Thanksgiving Day saw a 50/50 split between uptrends and downtrends.
In fact, this day was nothing special, as price fluctuations sometimes did not exceed 0,1%. Below is the BTC return for the previous 15 Thanksgiving weekends.
- 2024: + 1.3%
- 2023: + 0.1%
- 2022: -1.1%
- 2021: + 0.2%
- 2020: -2.8%
- 2019: -1.5%
- 2018: -13.3%
- 2017: + 13%
- 2016: -1.7%
- 2015: + 16%
- 2014: + 2%
- 2013: -5%
- 2012: + 1.3%
- 2011: + 15.6%
- 2010: -26.5%
- 2009: -10%
In 2025, Bitcoin’s daily growth exceeded 4%, and its value added $5000 (daily minimum — $86,300, daily maximum — $91,300).