Bitcoin ended 2025 with its first annual decline since 2022, falling roughly 6% despite reaching a record above $126,000 only months earlier. The disappointing finish was more than another example of cryptocurrency volatility. It showed how deeply Bitcoin had become connected to the same forces moving global financial markets: interest rates, U.S. Treasury yields, technology … Read more
Bitcoin’s slide toward $80,000 in late 2025 initially looked like another violent cryptocurrency correction. What followed showed that the bigger story was not Bitcoin alone. After peaking above $126,000 in October, the cryptocurrency ended 2025 near $88,000 and continued falling in 2026, eventually reaching roughly $58,000 during the second quarter before recovering toward $80,000 by … Read more
Bitcoin’s surge above $125,000 in October 2025 looked at the time like confirmation that cryptocurrency had entered a new institutional era. U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds were attracting billions of dollars, the regulatory environment had become more supportive, the dollar was weakening, and investors were increasingly able to buy Bitcoin through the same financial infrastructure … Read more