Anyone who bought into crypto assets twelve months ago is sitting on a paper loss almost everywhere today. On September 9, 2026 we compared the daily closing prices of ten major crypto assets against their level exactly one year earlier: nine of the ten trade lower, many of them sharply. For tax purposes this is the decisive moment, because in Germany a loss from a private disposal is only worth something when no more than one year lies between purchase and sale. Anyone who lets the deadline pass keeps the coin and loses the option of ever offsetting that loss against a gain.

Bitcoin 29 Percent Below Last Year: Nine of Ten Major Coins Are in the Red

The comparison is deliberately blunt. It sets the daily close of September 9, 2025…