BITCOIN PRICE: WHAT I THINK IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

I want to be very clear about this, because I’ve seen a lot of forced narratives flying around over the last couple of weeks. I don’t think Venezuela, Maduro, or any single geopolitical headline is what moved Bitcoin. That kind of thinking is way too neat and honestly doesn’t line up with how markets actually behave.

What this looks like to me is classic end-of-year behavior. People took profits. People harvested losses. Funds cleaned up their books. A lot of capital simply didn’t want exposure going into the final weeks of 2025, especially with a new administration, potential policy shifts, and tax considerations all sitting right in front of us. That’s not bearish. That’s cautious.

From a market structure standpoint, the move higher we saw recently looks more like short covering than fresh spot demand. Open interest came down as price went up. That tells you shorts were closing, not that a wave of new buyers suddenly piled in. That’s an important distinction, because rallies built on short covering don’t behave the same way as rallies driven by sustained inflows.

At the same time, sentiment is still weirdly negative. You’ve got no shortage of people calling for $40,000, talking about a full-on bear market, or claiming the cycle is over. Yet when you step back, the broader setup doesn’t really support panic. Liquidity conditions are likely to improve, rate cuts are still on the table, and regulatory clarity is actually better than it was a year ago. None of that screams collapse.

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So where does that leave us? Probably in a period of chop and uncertainty. Sideways, maybe lower, maybe higher. Anyone telling you they know exactly what comes next is lying to you. What I do believe is that 2026 starts with a much cleaner slate than 2025 ended with. New incentives, new leadership, and capital that’s finally willing to make decisions again instead of sitting on its hands.

This doesn’t feel like the end of something. It feels like a reset. And those are usually uncomfortable right before they become obvious in hindsight.

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🏦 Fed Overhauls Bank Policy, Pulls Back From Prior Crypto-Focused Restrictions

🏛️ Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Treasuries Meet Wall Street

🕵️ North Korean Hackers Stole $2 Billion in Crypto in 2025, Report Finds

👩‍⚖️ Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham to Join Crypto Payments Firm MoonPay

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🇮🇳 Indian MP Pushes Tokenization Bill to Democratize Investment Access for the Middle Class

⚖️ Former Theta Executives Accuse Crypto Firm’s CEO of Fraud and Retaliation

🔁 FTC Orders Nomad Operator to Repay Users $186M After 2022 Crypto Bridge Hack

🏛️ Trump, Democrats, SEC and CFTC Glint Hope for Senate Crypto Market Structure Bill

🐧 Pudgy Penguins Bets $500K on Las Vegas Sphere as PENGU Token Remains Down 85%

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Tuesday, December 16 - Here are the Headlines:

• Token vs Equity Crisis Goes Nuclear - Axelar, Aave, and Stream Finance
• OCC Grants National Bank Charters to Ripple, Circle and Others
• DeFi Saver Upgrades Smart Savings - Composable Yield Infrastructure Matures
• PayPal’s PYUSD Offensive - Savings Vault Launch Plus Bank License Application
• Lighter Ready for Token Launch After Raising $68M in Mixed Equity-Token Deal?

QUICK BITS

• Trump says he’ll “look at” pardoning Samourai Bitcoin wallet developers - signaling potential clemency for crypto developers prosecuted under Biden administration’s enforcement approach.
• Bitcoin active addresses just hit one-year low raising concerns about actual blockspace demand - either all the action is on CEXs or demand isn’t as strong as price action suggests.
• Visa launches stablecoin settlement in US via Circle’s USDC on Solana - major payment infrastructure going crypto-native with actual production settlement not just pilots.

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🇬🇧 UK Plans to Begin Regulating Cryptocurrency in 2027

👻 Phantom Wallet Integrates Kalshi Prediction Markets for Its 20 Million Users

⛏️ Solo Bitcoin Miner Beats the Odds With $282K Block Reward Win

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🎯 Coinbase Expands Into Prediction Markets and Tokenized Stocks

🎬 Hollywood Director Pleads Guilty to Scamming Netflix Out of $11M, Spent on Crypto

🗽 New York Mandates AI Advertising Disclosures, Faces Showdown Over Trump Executive Order

🤖 OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as Major Contract Expansion Accelerates

📺 YouTube Lets U.S. Creators Take Earnings in PayPal’s Stablecoin

⚖️ Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison Over $40B Terra Crypto Collapse

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🚀 Elon Musk: SpaceX Moves Into Bitcoin Ahead of Potential Record IPO

📱 Xiaomi Smartphones to Ship With SEI Crypto Wallets Preinstalled

⚖️ Paxful Agrees to Plead Guilty, Pay $7.5 Million in Penalties

🏦 Norges Bank Shelves CBDC Plans, Turns to Tokenization and the Eurosystem

🧠 Grayscale’s Bittensor Trust Hits Public Markets Days Before First Halving Event

📉 Why Bitcoin Is Falling Despite the Fed’s Rate Cut

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💧 Solana Liquidity Plummets to Bear-Market Levels With $500M Liquidation Overhang

⚖️ SEC Chair Atkins Says Many Crypto ICOs Fall Outside Agency Purview

🇪🇺 EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google’s Use of Publisher & YouTube Content for AI Training

🏛️ Teachers Union Urges Senate to Scrap Crypto Market Structure Bill

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Here are the headlines for Tuesday, December 9, 2025:

• Jack Maller’s ‘Twenty One’ Goes Public Today on the New York Stock Exchange With 43,500 Bitcoin in Holdings
• Kalshi Passes $20 Billion in Lifetime Volume as Prediction Markets Keep Growing
• Institutional Rotation Deepens: Harvard Boosts BTC Exposure as ETP Inflows Hit $716M
• Stablecoin Lending Tightens as OnChain Rates Rise Into FOMC Week
• Liquid Restaking Surges as LRTs Outperform Broader DeFi

LITTLE BITZ

• Big conferences this week in the Emirates. Binance Blockchain Week. Abu Dhabi Blockchain Week. Plus we’ve got Art Basel attracting a variety of NFT artists and creators to Miami. Solana Breakpoint also about to kick-off later this week.
• Michael Saylor says the following US banks are now issuing credit against Bitcoin: Citi, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon , Charles Schwab & Bank of America
• PNC Bank launched direct spot bitcoin trading for eligible PNC Private Bank clients on December 9, 2025, powered by Coinbase’s Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform, marking the first such offering among major U.S. banks.

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