On Nostr, I will exclusively share the most significant Bitcoin news. (this note) For those (still) beyond Nostr—friends, family, and colleagues—the complete Weekly Recap will be accessible on my Bitcoin Friday page on Yakihonne. (next note) Enriched with detailed charts, illustrative images, and comprehensive macroeconomic news to provide context and clarity. Happy reading! The Latest Bitcoin & Macro news: Weekly Recap 29.12.2025 ## 🧠Quote(s) of the week: 'One ounce of silver just hit a new all-time high of $79. It can now buy 1.4 barrels of oil ($56/barrel). 1.4 barrels of oil are equivalent to 2,380 kWh of energy. Roughly the annual electricity use of one and a half small apartments in a developing country. Aka the energy equivalent of 5.6 years of continuous human labor. Hard money is stored energy.' Got Bitcoin? 'Boomer: "Bitcoin is fake internet money with no intrinsic value!" Also, Boomer: Owns a house that went from $30k to $500k by doing absolutely nothing. "That's different, houses are real!" The house didn't change. Your money changed. But yeah, Bitcoin is the scam.' - Daniel Hershberger ## 🧡Bitcoin news🧡 https://cdn.azzamo.net/855543ef4447f5c7da8a2d3df34ee2c7aa7b9b2434b0d1dd15e511ecd3947396.webp Photos hosted by Azzamo (https://azzamo.net/) On the 18th of December: ➡️Bitcoin falls -$3,000 in 30 minutes as $140 million in levered long positions are liquidated in a matter of minutes. Liquidations are back, again. ➡️24% of Americans plan to gift Bitcoin this holiday season. Thanksgiving Bitcoin pitches might’ve worked this year. ➡️Bitcoin ETFs have bought 710,000 BTC since launch, outpacing new mining issuance 2:1. https://cdn.azzamo.net/2682ddbac45f9e5627d6b9de0040f8804cc4a8e2cc3892f6ec9f985e6585e5b5.webp ➡️Bitcoin history is wild. The birth of the HODL meme and Michael Saylor’s now iconic Bitcoin FUD tweet both happened on this day, December 18, exactly 12 years ago. https://cdn.azzamo.net/14a3eb2bf51b9c74d58786b8e082012f1616e0f51f679758c05e4d70f2e59be7.webp On the 19th of December: ➡️US Senate confirms pro-Bitcoin and crypto Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC ➡️Bitcoin is energy, as you have read above (Daniel Batten post). Documenting Bitcoin: 'This video shows a portable Bitcoin mine plugged into an oil well in the North Dakota wilderness. It makes a profit by recycling methane gas that would otherwise be vented or flared, converting it into electricity for mining while reducing waste and harmful emissions.' Video: https://x.com/DocumentingBTC/status/2001756893870465287 ➡️This is why we buy Bitcoin: 100 $ € CHF in 2002 - now... https://cdn.azzamo.net/72c44a4dce8a59a7f11b4d63bfff71dd601e4be02a03d88f4ea3192144ecd852.webp ➡️Adam Back: pro-tip for quantum FUD promoters. Bitcoin does not use encryption. Get your basics right, or it's a tell. I kinda lean to the following: Adrian: 'Sorry, but that's the facts, and @adam3us is right to point out that if you don't understand this rather simple distinction, you probably should not be talking about a QC cracking Bitcoin. TL/DR: A Quantum Computer wouldn't "decrypt" a private key; it would use Shor’s Algorithm to calculate a private key from a public key. The Basics: Encryption refers to the act of hiding information so only those with a key can read it. Bitcoin doesn't do this. The blockchain is a public ledger, so anyone can see every transaction, every amount, and every address. Nothing is "encrypted". Bitcoin previously relied solely on the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and upgraded to include Schnorr signatures with Taproot. Neither are encryption tools; they are authentication tools. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 (for hashing) to confirm that data hasn't been tampered with. A hash is more like a data fingerprint, not encryption.' On the 20th of December: ➡️Rajat Soni: The value of your labor/time is trending to 0 in terms of Bitcoin. Today, your annual salary might be 0.5-0.7 BTC. Eventually, you will be paid 0.01 BTC or less for a year of your time. Every 0.1 BTC you own will give you a decade or more of time freedom and financial freedom. Yes, Bitcoin is time, and I get the point, but I don't think labor will trend to zero. Productivity changes what kind of labor gets paid. Skills still create income. Focus less on income and more on exposure. Bitcoin protects savings. ➡️BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF took in more money than GLD this year, even with BTC down YTD. ➡️Bitcoin News: Bitcoin miners are facing capitulation risks as revenue and difficulty diverge, with miner revenue down 11% since mid-October. ➡️Wicked: Look who’s leading the way in using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. And the rest of the world isn’t far behind. Gradually, then suddenly. https://cdn.azzamo.net/81b8bec3054593636e2ab910e6b6d1c08c5e7643cf0234adae10442833c4634a.webp On the 22nd of December: ➡️Saylor stacks $2.19 BILLION cash to back dividend payments on preferred shares. Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $748 million and now holds $2.19 billion and ₿671,268. ➡️If you bought Bitcoin with your $1,400 stimulus check in 2020, you'd now have over $16,113. - Bitcoin Magazine On the 24th of December: ➡️Bitcoin network hashrate every Christmas Eve: 2009: 9 MH/s 2010: 108 GH/s 2011: 8 TH/s 2012: 22 TH/s 2013: 9 PH/s 2014: 271 PH/s 2015: 709 PH/s 2016: 2.3 EH/s 2017: 14 EH/s 2018: 39 EH/s 2019: 99 EH/s 2020: 134 EH/s 2021: 177 EH/s 2022: 240 EH/s 2023: 521 EH/s 2024: 779 EH/s 2025: 1.1 ZH/s From 9 megahashes to 1.1 zettahashes. 122 trillion times more computational power is securing the network.' - Javier Hermosa ➡️Quinten: Gold added $13 TRILLION in market cap. Silver added $1.7 TRILLION in market cap. If that capital flew into Bitcoin, it would be at $800,000. Still one of the biggest opportunities for long-term wealth ➡️Sminston With: If I were to show ONE chart to my family at dinner tonight (which I will), I would share this one. Use it to explain how if they start DCA'ing $100/week now, they can accumulate 0.1 BTC in 2.5 years. Then explain how if they wait 2 years to start, it will take them 5 years (7 years including wait time). Then explain how if they wait 5 years to start, it will take them 12 years (17 years including wait time). If they're smart enough to understand the price is presently undervalued, they MAY find it reasonable to work towards that starting point NOW, and STACK HARD, STACK EARLY. https://cdn.azzamo.net/3fafcab95e41db75e8a9ab11628e21afd9a67704d9330ad37ace2be8d2498de4.webp ➡️Spot gold prices surge above $4,500/oz for the first time in history. Gold is now a $31.5 TRILLION asset, nearly 7 TIMES larger than Nvidia. Louis: 'Gold is a hard asset that produces no cash flow, and yet it has 7x the market cap of Nvidia, the most profitable company on earth. The base case for Bitcoin is being digital gold. Gold is 15.75x larger than Bitcoin. Bitcoin has a lot of room to grow.' Gold rallies first, then bitcoin rallies harder...right? https://cdn.azzamo.net/e6739b976c7d5f21ddf5eec9ee7d0291558c59092809ed08e10682c0ad5803c0.webp ➡️Wicked: Working on the per 100,000 population version of the European map now. The Isle of Man is putting in work on a per capita basis...but that's because they've only got an estimated population of 84,160. https://cdn.azzamo.net/4abd6ca92e7924692b4dd50466729f47153b881164930043e01a6d9fc4e62940.webp ➡️Satoshi Flipper: 'If Bitcoin had been around for the last 75 years, those circles are all your bull market cycle tops. It doesn't happen EXACTLY every 4 years and has nothing to do with a calendar period LMAO. Now look at the current cycle and how flat it is; it should be obvious if you have a pair of working eyes that we haven't even started to form this bull market's cycle top yet.' The only thing I am going to say is that markets rhyme with liquidity and growth, not with dates. Yes, the halving plays a role in the past, but won't be as important in the (nearby) future. On the 26th of December: ➡️Bitcoin News: 'If you’re a Bitcoiner, don’t get jealous of silver going parabolic. It’s a trade that’s nearly 50 years in the making. The lesson? No matter how hard they try, assets harder than fiat cannot be held down forever.' Silver has had 3 generational bull runs in the last 140 years: 1979, 2011, and today. Good luck to everyone buying the top. ➡️Bitcoin News: 'Bitcoin fair value vs. Gold: $169,000 When priced against gold’s long-term trend, BTC remains significantly undervalued. If risk appetite returns to the market, the upside potential is massive. The Gold-Inferred Power Law suggests the "fair" price is nearly 2x the current price.' On the 27th of December: ➡️Simple Mining: 'Hash rate down 4%. Weak miners are shutting off. That's not a warning. That's a signal. Historically, 90-day returns are positive 65% of the time after hash rate drops. Corporate treasuries just bought 42k BTC. Their largest accumulation since July. Weak miners leave. Strong miners stay. New miners enter. Difficulty adjusts. Competition thins. Block rewards remain.' ➡️The quote of the week is awesome, but how much energy backs the Bitcoin network, and roughly how much energy does that equate per coin? The Bitcoin network's annual energy consumption is approximately 204 TWh (equivalent to 204 billion kWh), based on the latest estimates. With ~19.96 million Bitcoins mined, this equates to roughly 10,200 kWh per coin per year. Alternatively, the energy to mine one new Bitcoin is about 1.2 million kWh. To put it in perspective, that 1.2M kWh to mine one BTC equals about 3,300 years of human labor (at 1 kWh/day equivalent). Bitcoin as ultimate stored energy? The 2025 / 2026 market is trying to tell you something. The question is, are you listening? ➡️Bitcoin Archive: '14 of the top 25 U.S. banks are building Bitcoin products. Bitcoin isn’t being institutionalized. Institutions are being Bitcoinized.' Anyway, sometimes you need to remember to zoom out. You have been in this asset for a decade. Or for the next decade. Once you zoom out to a decade, day-to-day volatility stops being information and starts being a distraction. You are betting on the fact that this is digital gold, a pristine monetary asset. You own 1 Bitcoin; you own 1 /21 Millionth of everything. Everything else is noise. Everything else is just short-term emotion trying to rent space in a long-term decision. I buy Bitcoin and do nothing. No charts, no earnings calls, no timing anything, no nothing… I use all the time I used to waste on research and managing a portfolio to spend with my new daughter, wife, my friends, and many hobbies. Bitcoin gave me a simple life. ➡️Adam Livingston: Bitcoin vs. Silver vs. Gold since January 1st, 2015: Silver: 405% Gold: 283% Bitcoin: 27,701% Even ignoring the first 6 years of Bitcoin's existence for the crybabies who whine about the timeframe comparison... ...gold and silver drastically underperform the APEX ASSET. BITCOIN IS INEVITABLE. Now I do know it's a bit of cherry picking...So let's pick a different starting date, say 2020, and see how that works out. https://cdn.azzamo.net/eddedaef595aba41832f97a795b239020af165cd6ab3393abc3adb76a2f2739e.webp Bitcoin massively outperformed shiny rocks by orders of magnitude. Gold and silver are infinitely abundant. Bitcoin is fixed. Long-term, that's all that matters. ➡️Lugano, Switzerland, has emerged as a rare example of citywide Bitcoin adoption, where crypto is used for everything from buying coffee at McDonald’s to paying taxes, parking fines, and tuition. Through its Plan ₿ initiative, launched in 2022, residents and merchants can pay with Bitcoin or USDT via simple QR codes, attracted by Lightning Network fees often below 1%.' - Bitcoin News. I truly hope, as I am part of the group Zwolle Bitcoinstad, we can achieve the same here in the Netherlands, Zwolle. On the 28th of December: ➡️MicroSeed.io: 'When it comes to securing your Bitcoin seed phrase, never say never. Complacency loses a lot more Bitcoin than hacks. Don't trust, verify, including your process for recovery! Regular check-ups, just like the dentist!' ## 🎁If you have made it this far, I would like to give you a little gift: What Bitcoin Did: Bitcoin in 2025: What Everyone Got Wrong | HODL & Odell American HODL & Matt Odell join the show for a review of a year that left most Bitcoin narratives exposed. We unpack why expectations ran ahead of reality, why the super cycle never materialised, and how ETFs, treasury companies, and institutional capital quietly changed how this market actually operates. They get into Bitcoin’s underperformance versus gold and equities, the absence of meaningful retail demand, and how leverage distorted outcomes rather than driving real adoption. They discuss what this means long-term. From institutional involvement and shifting power structures, to the breakdown of the four-year cycle framework. We also get into custody, incentives, freedom, and whether Bitcoin has to pass through the traditional system before it can meaningfully reshape it. 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