Precious metals crash, with silver plunging 35%, gold falling 12% while bitcoin holds at $83,000 CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data By: Krisztian Sandor 30 January 2026 at 18:50 Crypto bulls who have theorized that bitcoin can't begin rising until money flows out of red-hot precious metals are about to find out if they were correct.