Recapping Bitcoin 2025: Strategic Moves in the Making
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The Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas marked a clear inflection point in bitcoin’s global adoption, with announcements that underscored its accelerating role in both sovereign policy and corporate strategy.
Pakistan made headlines with plans to implement a national Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, becoming one of the first emerging market governments to formalize BTC as a monetary hedge.
Meanwhile, Trump Media Group announced it would pursue the MicroStrategy playbook, raising $2.5 billion to begin aggressively accumulating bitcoin for its balance sheet.
And on the infrastructure front, Block’s subsidiary c= revealed that its lightning routing node is now generating a 9.7% annualized return on deployed bitcoin liquidity—highlighting how BTC-native yield is no longer theoretical.
In short: capital is mobilizing, adoption is advancing, and bitcoin’s role in the global financial order is beginning to crystallize.
Keynote Speaker Highlights:
Chart Of The Week
"U.S. stocks are now more expensive than nearly any time in modern history. But here’s the real problem: U.S. households are holding more stocks than ever before. This combo is rare and risky."
Quote of the Week
"Our debt is glass jaw...hard assets are going to be remonetized."
— Matthew Pines of BPI at Bitcoin 2025
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