Bitcoin spent 2025 doing what it does best: promising revolution and delivering anxiety. It hit records, became headlines, made it into bank PowerPoints — and then fell with the grace of someone tripping on an escalator. If you only look at the chart, you see numbers. If you look at people, you see something else: confusion, frustration, and an entire industry pretending it understands what it’s selling.
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