Bitcoin held near $89,300 as crypto’s Friday selloff paused

Bitcoin remained near $89,300 on December 6, 2025, as the cryptocurrency market paused after a broad Friday decline rather than immediately extending or reversing it.

CoinMarketCap’s historical snapshot, which its documentation defines as an end-of-UTC-day observation, placed bitcoin at $89,272.37. Its reported 24-hour change was negative 0.13%, while its seven-day change was negative 1.74%. Ether stood at $3,040.21, up 0.52% over 24 hours and 1.62% over seven days.

Those figures described a mixed, narrowly moving market—not a coordinated rebound. Among other large non-stablecoin assets, BNB rose 0.72% and TRON gained 0.63% over CoinMarketCap’s rolling 24-hour window. XRP declined 0.24%, solana fell 0.73% and cardano lost 0.56%. Dogecoin was almost unchanged, up 0.08%.

A pause after a larger repricing

The subdued December 6 readings followed a materially weaker December 5 snapshot. CoinMarketCap had placed bitcoin at $89,387.75 on December 5, down 2.99% over that observation’s preceding 24 hours. Ether was $3,024.43 and down 3.51%. Solana, dogecoin and cardano each showed 24-hour losses exceeding 4%.

The comparison supports a limited interpretation: selling pressure stopped accelerating during the December 6 measurement window. It does not demonstrate that buyers had established a durable floor or that the preceding decline had ended.

Reported rolling turnover also contracted. CoinMarketCap showed $37.99 billion of 24-hour bitcoin volume on December 6, compared with $63.26 billion on December 5. The approximately 40% decrease is Coinburn’s calculation from those two displayed values. Ether’s reported 24-hour volume declined from $28.00 billion to $10.96 billion, a calculated reduction of about 61%.

These are consecutive rolling-volume snapshots, not audited totals for two isolated calendar sessions. Changes in the observation cutoff, exchange coverage, asset-pair composition or CoinMarketCap’s aggregation process can affect the comparison. Lower displayed turnover is consistent with a quieter Saturday market, but it is not a complete measure of global liquidity.

Venue records clustered around the same level

Separate records broadly corroborated the price area while illustrating why cryptocurrency does not have one universal daily close.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s ALFRED archive recorded Coinbase Bitcoin at $89,480.46 and Coinbase Ether at $3,044.55 for December 6. FRED’s methodology says those Coinbase series are measured daily at 5 p.m. Pacific time. That cutoff occurred after CoinMarketCap’s end-of-UTC observation and used one venue rather than an aggregated market.

Nadex’s official December 6 daily bulletin supplied another venue-specific record. Its bitcoin event-contract tables showed an expiration value of $89,449.273 for contracts labeled 5 p.m. The bulletin also recorded numerous intraday contract expirations, including values around $89,500 during the preceding hour. The surviving bulletin does not clearly state its operative timezone, so those labels should not be treated as directly synchronous with either the Coinbase or CoinMarketCap observations.

The roughly $200 spread among the end-of-UTC CoinMarketCap price, Coinbase’s 5 p.m. Pacific observation and Nadex’s labeled 5 p.m. reference was small relative to bitcoin’s price, but the figures are not interchangeable closes.

What December 6 established

The defensible December 6 conclusion is therefore narrow. Bitcoin consolidated below $90,000 after the sharper December 5 decline, ether recovered modestly, and performance among other large cryptoassets remained divided. Rolling reported turnover fell substantially from Friday’s elevated readings.

That Saturday pause mattered as a dated market condition, but it did not settle the market’s direction. It also did not establish a protocol change, institutional-flow event or new regulatory development. Claims about the stronger December 7 advance belong to the following day’s separate record.