{"id":418887,"date":"2026-02-06T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-sentiment-sinks-to-lowest-level-in-3-5-years-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:50:50","slug":"crypto-sentiment-sinks-to-lowest-level-in-3-5-years-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-sentiment-sinks-to-lowest-level-in-3-5-years-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Sentiment Sinks to Lowest Level in 3.5 Years – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • Bitcoin slid to a 15-month low, down more than half from its late-2025 peak, while derivatives data showed a sharp pullback in speculative positioning.<\/li>\n
  • Market sentiment gauges dropped into \u201cextreme fear,\u201d with options traders paying steep premiums for downside protection.<\/li>\n
  • Analysts pointed to Federal Reserve uncertainty, a rising dollar and spillovers from global bond and tech-sector stress as key drivers of the selloff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Investor fear in the crypto market has intensified to a degree not seen since the collapse of the Terra Luna ecosystem in mid-2022, driven by a brutal, macro-led selloff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Bitcoin\u2019s price fell to a 15-month low of $60,255 on Thursday, marking a 52.2% decline from its October 2025 all-time high of $126,080, according to CoinGecko.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    It comes as the Crypto Fear and Greed Index <\/span>plummeted<\/span><\/a> to 9 this week, squarely in “Extreme Fear” territory and at its lowest level in 42 months since Terra’s downfall<\/span><\/p>\n

    Terra Luna was a crypto ecosystem whose collapse in May 2022, after its algorithmic stablecoin lost its dollar peg, triggered one of the market\u2019s sharpest confidence shocks on record.<\/p>\n

    \u201cLooking back at this drawdown, it vividly reflects a core reality: in an environment where broad liquidity has not expanded meaningfully, global assets are being governed by the same tightening financing conditions and risk-aversion logic,\u201d Tim Sun, senior researcher at HashKey Group, told <\/span>Decrypt<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n