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😲Are investors abandoning BTC?


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December 16, 2025

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories

👉 $100 BTC by year-end unlikely

👀 XRP traders step back as futures volume collapses

💰 BitMine is steadily building a 3.2% stake in ETH supply

📰 Keep reading for all of today's biggest headlines & stories

$100K BTC Feels Impossible Right Now

Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged about $358 million in outflows, and the pattern now matters more than the single headline number.

BTC bounced roughly 3% on Tuesday after dipping to $85,000 on Monday, but flow data since the Oct. 10 crash points to softer institutional demand, not fresh conviction. Price is holding for now, yet the ETF bid that powered earlier legs higher looks clearly weaker. That doesn't kill the long-term bull case, but it does make a clean sprint to $100,000 by year-end look increasingly unlikely.

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Bitcoin's Line in the Sand Is $82.5K as ETFs Decide Year-End

In this week's Trade Secrets, we spoke with Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards about where Bitcoin really stands into year-end. With BTC drifting around $86,000, he flagged $82,500 as the critical level and said institutional buying needs to pick up "over the next week or so" if price is going to move meaningfully by Dec. 31. Edwards is still "leaning bullish," but his stance depends on whether that ETF bid turns into something stronger than a short burst of dip-buying. If it doesn't, the market may have to recalibrate its year-end targets.

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XRP demand evaporating, possible path toward $1

XRP is under fresh pressure in December, and the derivatives market is telling the story more loudly than the spot chart. Futures volume on Binance has dropped about 96% from its peak, and traders are running with much lower leverage, a sign that speculative appetite has drained out of the market.

Price is still hovering near a key support zone around $2.00, but there isn't much evidence of aggressive dip-buying stepping in underneath.

If this continues, a drop to lower levels — including $1 — looks less like a remote tail risk and more like a real possibility.

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A smart way to shop: AMA recap with seQura

In a recent AMA, seQura explained how its smart shopping app blends flexible payments, purchase control and Bitcoin rewards to create a loyalty system that holds real value.

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FDIC Maps a Path for Bank-Issued Stablecoins

The FDIC is moving from law on paper to rules in practice with a proposal that lays out how banks could seek approval to issue payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act. It's an early, technical step, but it signals that regulators are preparing for stablecoins to sit inside the insured banking perimeter instead of entirely outside it.

For banks, this is the first hint at what the permissioning process might cost in time, capital and compliance. For existing stablecoin issuers, it's a preview of who might eventually compete on their turf with full federal backing.

BitMine Is Loading Up on ETH While Others Step Back

BitMine is leaning into Ether at a moment when most signals around the asset have flipped risk off. In a Dec. 8 disclosure, the company reported holding 3,864,951 ETH as of Dec. 7 and adding 138,452 ETH in just one week, a position it says represents more than 3.2% of supply.

BitMine frames the move as a long-term bet on Fusaka, staking economics and future catalysts, effectively treating ETH as strategic treasury infrastructure. Critics see a concentrated, timing-sensitive bet at a point when broader market flows are still defensive.