Recap of major talks from 2025

As we approach the end of the year, it’s been quite a ride with lots of ups and downs. Before we jump into the new year, let's look back at some of the chaos that's been shaking up the global economy and the markets. The early part of 2025 is buzzing thanks to Trump's comeback in the presidential race. On another front, AI tech is making huge strides, hitting some significant milestones. Plus, gold has really stood out as a top choice for safety in the market, reaching record highs. The crypto scene has also been on fire this year, with Bitcoin smashing its all-time high in early October. If you’ve got any other big news or events from 2025 that are worth mentioning, drop a reply here and let me know!

You have missed the most important one IMO, that Bitcoin's price performance has been fucking shit for a post-halving year and for all the expectations at the beginning of the year. The fact that it has clearly lost ground to gold, as you mentioned, is another important point, because for years we have believed that Bitcoin would continue to gain ground on gold until a future flippening, and at least this year that is being called into question.

The tariff wars between major economies had some effect on the crypto market. The market in 2025 always responded to tariff pronouncements by the US President and retaliations from others. It became disturbing because Donald Trump was always coming up with these tariff policies at random. Bitcoin reserves discussions by some companies, states and countries were also a hot topic. The US establishing a reserve and some other states in the country following suit attracted much attention. A few big companies also made the same move.

The growth of the AI bubble is due to inflated market expectations from unprofitable AI companies. Shortage of memory chips. Devaluation of content due to the ease of its creation (using AI), especially images and videos. The beginning of public saturation with AI content. The decline of some professions is due to the fact that AI replaces humans (programmers, designers, technical writers, etc.). Increased production of humanoid robots.

The year 2025 is indeed very dynamic because various events that affect the global economy and markets have occurred throughout this year, Trump return to the US presidency is also one of the events that occurred in 2025. I would also like to add a few points that are other events that will occur in 2025, such as Trump new tariff policy after he officially takes office as president, which could trigger a global trade war, increase inflation, and pose a threat of recession. In addition, the geopolitical tensions between major countries such as the US, China, and Russia have affected the global financial market, impacting the crypto market, especially Bitcoin, which has lost market share (although it is predicted that it will regain momentum in the near future). However, Bitcoin's poor performance has made the value of gold very prominent in the market, so that it has managed to reach an all-time high.

The development of AI is so fast that it makes any content easier to resemble the real thing, what you need on the Internet AI will definitely help you in any case. But unfortunately, a lot of video content is now full of AI, there is no creativity anymore from unique content. In addition, crypto projects are booming with AI narratives with AI chat being developed. Regarding the scarcity of memory chips, now DDR4/5 RAM has doubled from its usual price.

Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $126k. This is a significant achievement in 2025 that cannot be ignored, even though some say that market performance this year has been poor. Globally, economic data in 2025 may be slow and miss targets. Two different institutions, the IMF and the World Bank, have provided differing reports. One says the economy is stable, while the other says in its report that economic growth is likely to be low.

I think that if what has happend in the past right from the start of the year till this present moment isn't too relevant to what we are to look out for in the coming year, then there's no need dwelling too much in the past when there's a future to look out for. Trump has become the president of the United state and at the time, it effected bitcoin to an extent, apart from that, there's still other ways that things has greatly affected bitcoin but in all, it's better to look into the future and see where we stand in the year to come. The highest you can do is to learn from your mistakes and ensure that in the coming year, the actions that reduced the quantity of bitcoin you acxumilated doesn't repeat itself again and that you are able to set up good strategies that gives you ease when it comes to a more effective bitcoin accumilation startegy. Spending months talking about the past is not half as effective as spending the littlest 30 minutes to prepare for the future.

it seems like such a long time ago that he was elected and finally returned to presidency i remember vividly how his inauguration has caused bitcoin to spike to $100k and those were really fun times but then he started implementing his tariff wars which caused economic distress to tons of countries and also for bitcoin this year for bitcoin has been full of ups and downs but hopefully will close to a high end

I still believe Bitcoin will gain more ground on gold, but it won't be at the rate that people expect. it will be much slower. And just so we are on the same page, I'm not talking about in market cap, because bitcoin is decades away from getting to half of gold's market cap, but in terms of performance and profit growth. It's no secret that the performance of itcoin is best measured in the long term. If we look at the percentage increase in gold from 2016 to now, we would see that it's about a 230% increase from less than $1500 in 2016 to about $4300. Then, with Bitcoin, we have almost a 600% increase from the halving of 2016 to today. It will be higher than that if you use the $120k instead of 90k. The growth of bitcoin wont be as it used to be before where it can have over 200% increase within a year. Now it will be slower, and this goes both ways.

One of the most interesting things that defined this year globally was the tariffs that Donald trump imposed on the rest of the world. At first whe he started with the tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico I was thinking that he was joking until implemented the tariffs making it to come to effect. Before he imposed it on the rest of the world. Trump is one Man that means what he say and he has demonstrated that by these tariffs that he imposed. But generally speaking I have not seen the of these tariffs on the other countries why am saying it is because the other countries are reacting well to the tariffs, and they don't seems to be affected countries like china for instance is doing much better in the presence of these so called tariffs and is even having a greater global influence on the rest of the world than the united states.

Wot? Bitcoin went as high as $125k this year what are you talking about? Performance-wise, Bitcoin killed it this year. It had its one of the best years. What was the price before Trump? If I remember correctly, it was below $50k. From $40k to $120k that’s 200% gains almost in a year. People wait a decade or more to have that kind of returns from the S&P500 and you just said bitcoin did shit. Gold is going great but I don’t agree that btc lost its ground to gold. I own all three; gold, btc and silver and I like all three. I can’t say one of them replaced the other at all. Different assets for different situations and use cases.

You have also spoken my mind about the Bitcoin cycle post halving which most of us had been expecting Bitcoin to really hit the very big price with Speculations spreading below $180K - $250K but we go it in the unpleasant. Not going to lie, this seasons market event in the 4 years cycle is really going to be a talk about not just a hot topic of the year to one most historical discussion in the crypto markets and as well a steppingstone for critics questioning where is the so-called store of value Bitcoin is since we keep to speculate that after the post halving will always catapult the value of Bitcoin beyond every other assets that may be glittering as gold. Obviously this season is such that is unusual. However, Bitcoin being a long term goal investment is always hopeful to profer exceeding profits in the long while short term is uncertainty.

What matters is that, in addition to having reached historic milestones with bitcoin, there is a strong chance that we are at the beginning of a bear market. Unfortunately, the upward trend seems to be over. Now it’s time to accumulate as much money as possible to make new investments toward the end of next year, which is likely to be the next bitcoin bottom. Other than that, we keep repeating the same things in the macroeconomic context, after all, the world still hasn’t fully recovered economically from the COVID-19 pandemic.

We living in the movie, man. Trump 2.0, AI going full Skynet, gold and Bitcoin mooning together? That's not a coincidence. That's the sound of the old system cracking. The elites are piling into real assets while they still can. Don't forget the real headline: Nations and corps are buying BTC like it's oxygen. The ETF inflows are just the public face. The real game is the sovereign buying. They see the end of the dollar's runway. My prediction for the rest of '25? More war, more money printing, and Bitcoin eating every dip. They're all different scenes in the same collapse. Stay stacking, stay humble, run a node. The noise is just the prelude.

Yeah, 2025 felt like we were all day-trading Trump's mood swings. Dude would tweet a tariff at 3am and the whole crypto market would flash crash for an hour. Exhausting. But that's the whole point, right? The noise is on the surface. Underneath, the real signal was deafening: everyone with a brain was moving toward Bitcoin as a reserve. Companies, states, whole nations. They're not doing it because they love crypto; they're doing it because they can't trust each other's paper anymore. The trade wars just proved it. The price gyrated on the headlines, but the direction of travel was set in stone: out of politicized money, into neutral, hard money. The dips were just discount days for the believers.