Take away the violent weekends and Bitcoin’s bull run is still alive while the dollar continues to fall

Bitcoin’s 2026 problem is the weekend I keep coming back to this line because it feels brutally true in the way only markets can be true. The only thing worse than buying Bitcoin this year was not buying Bitcoin. If you held dollars, you got quietly taxed. The dollar has been sliding, and the mood around “anti-dollar” assets has been getting louder by the day. If you held hard assets, you got rewarded loudly and publicly, with the kind of chart that makes people text you screenshots at 2 a.m. Gold has traded above $5,000 an ounce, silver has pushed into triple digits, and even the S&P 500 is up on the year. Then you look at Bitcoin, the asset that built its whole personality around being the exit door from fiat. The scoreboard says it basically did nothing. That’s where people stop, shrug, and move on to the next trade. That’s a mistake. The real story in this tape is weirder, and it’s sitting inside the clock. Bitcoin's 2026 performance (Source: TradingView) The scoreboard everyone is staring at Here’s how 2026 has looked so far in plain percentage terms, measured from the first available print after Jan. 1 through Jan. 27 at 15:00 UTC. Asset Return (Jan. 1–Jan. 27, 15:00 UTC) Silver +46.22% Gold +16.59% Oil +6.35% S&P futures +1.49% Bitcoin -0.07% DXY -1.94% If you’re reading this like a normal person, the takeaway is obvious. Metals won, oil did fine, equities did fine, the dollar lost, and Bitcoin treaded water. The problem is that “treaded water” is a 24/7 illusion. Related Reading CME to start trading crypto futures 24/7: What changes for Bitcoin? Round-the-clock trading could narrow gaps with crypto-native venues. We chart who benefits and when. Oct 3, 2025 · Andjela Radmilac Bitcoin trades all the time, the others don’t Bitcoin trades every hour of every day. There is no close, no weekend break, no mercy. People can buy it after dinner, during a flight, or on a Sunday morning, right in the middle of whatever news cycle is panicking everyone. Most of the o...