Bitcoin 2.0 – 2025 is the year crypto grew up (mostly!)
If 2021 was the year crypto went ‘mainstream’ – with institutions piling in, NFTs exploding into culture and Bitcoin becoming dinner-table conversation – 2022–23 were the ‘hangover years’ marked by collapses, contagion and a hard reset in trust and leverage for many. In 2024, we hit the ground running with BTC ETFs, then halving and a new all time high but 2025 has been something very different altogether…
We’re now 12 months into what I’d call a new era: governments buying it, corporates putting it on balance sheets, institutions treating it like digital gold and yes, even teeny tiny New Zealand making headlines with its first listed Bitcoin treasury (proof that the ‘Is this real?’ debate is over).
And yet… this year’s…
