Business.Scoop » Bitcoin 2.0 – 2025 Is The Year Crypto Grew Up (Mostly!)
Press Release – Swyftx
No hysterical FOMO; no melt-ups; no blow-off top. Bitcoin even dipped under $80k recently before bouncing but instead of panic, the markets just breathed. A bit weird, right?
By Paul Quickenden, Swyftx New Zealand Country Manager
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…
