Bitcoin has become the biggest disappointment of 2025..!!!?

Despite some moments of strong breakthroughs, Bitcoin closed the year 2025 with a negative performance, marking the first annual loss after two consecutive years of growth.

At the end of the trading session on 31/12/2025, the price of Bitcoin was traded around 87474 USD/BTC, down 6% compared to the beginning of the year, thus recording the first negative performance since 2022.

This is particularly notable as the price of Bitcoin had previously reached a record high of 126,000 USD/BTC at the beginning of October. Thus, when calculated from the peak price of the year, the world's largest cryptocurrency has dropped over 30%.

The Bitcoin Sorrow

The year 2025 for Bitcoin investors started with an atmosphere of excitement, as the market bet on a “more friendly” policy environment for digital assets in the USA.

As expected, the price of Bitcoin surged in the first half of this year, before entering a streak of erratic days with unpredictable movements of risk assets in the global financial market.

The rally peaked in October, when the trading price for each Bitcoin first surpassed 126,000 USD.

However, just a few days later, the market shook when U.S. President D. Trump announced new tariffs on imports from China and signaled the possibility of export controls on some important software.

The aforementioned policy shock triggered a large-scale “liquidation” across the derivatives markets. According to reports from FTI Consulting, the total value of this “great liquidation” reached a colossal figure of 19 billion USD, the largest ever recorded in the history of cryptocurrency, in the context of thin liquidity causing volatility to be amplified.