From January to February 2018, the price of bitcoin fell 65 percent.[1] By September 2018, the MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index had lost 80 percent of its value, making the decline of the cryptocurrency market, in percentage terms, greater than the bursting of the Dot-com bubble in 2002.[2] In November 2018, the total market capitalization for bitcoin fell below $100 billion for the first time since October 2017,[11][12] and the price of bitcoin fell below $4,000, representing an 80 percent decline from its peak the previous January.[13] bitcoin reached a low of around $3,100 in December 2018.[14][15]