Raynor de Best
Content expert covering payments and (crypto)currencies
Bitcoin (BTC) - statistics & facts
Bitcoin's market performance fluctuated significantly since late 2024, after the results from the U.S. elections. BTC's price broke the fabled 100,000 U.S. dollars barrier several times since then. However, the digital asset is slowly evolving from its original design. What is in store for the world's most well-known cryptocurrency in 2025?
So far, Bitcoin had a fast start in 2025 as it reached news headlines almost every day. The coin is at a crossroads in 2025. Created in 2009 out of protest against financial systems and institutional investors, precisely these groups increasingly invest in Bitcoin. This may give the coin a big boost in acceptance, or it may change the digital asset fundamentally and away from its original design.
Measuring sentiment
A big reason for the price hikes is that investors hoped the new administration could enforce favorable crypto regulation. However, 2025 showed Bitcoin can be susceptible to investor sentiment. After the announcement of DeepSeek being able to outperform other AI models, for example, the price dropped below 100,000 U.S. dollars. A much steeper drop - below 90,000 U.S. dollars - also occurred in January 2025, after the release of macroeconomic figures for the United States. This puts Bitcoin almost on par to a regular stock.Bitcoin outlook for 2025
Bitcoin's outlook for 2025 is significantly different from one year before. The cryptocurrency has support from the White House, and a growing list of publicly listed companies have Bitcoin in their reserve - as a hedge against inflation. The coin is increasingly an investment tool for institutional investors, with federal governments potentially even wanting to buy the cryptocurrency for their currency reserves. The question remains, however, what a successful use case for the digital coin could be. Crypto as a payment method for day-to-day situations was relatively uncommon in several countries.Bitcoin figures by country
Bitcoin numbers on a country level do not exist by themselves. One method to estimate these was to look at trading volume compared to domestic currencies from different countries. This has two problems, however: First, a Bitcoin transaction of Bitcoin is not supposed to be retraced to its original starting point – as this is part of the coin's design. Second, Bitcoin to USD or GBP trading only takes up a portion of all Bitcoin trading. Consequently, figures for Bitcoin are often based on domestic surveys, asking local consumers whether they held the crypto as an investment tool or used the currency. People outside the U.S. and Europe are more likely to own a cryptocurrency, according to Statista's Global Consumer Survey.So far, Bitcoin had a fast start in 2025 as it reached news headlines almost every day. The coin is at a crossroads in 2025. Created in 2009 out of protest against financial systems and institutional investors, precisely these groups increasingly invest in Bitcoin. This may give the coin a big boost in acceptance, or it may change the digital asset fundamentally and away from its original design.
Raynor de Best
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Feb 5, 2025
Raynor de Best
Content expert covering payments and (crypto)currencies
