BF195 - Top Bitcoin News - 12/21/25

🎙️ The Bitcoin Fortress Podcast — Episode 195

Date: December 21, 2025
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📰 News & Analysis (Dec 14 – Dec 21, 2025)

 

1. UK regulation of cryptoassets to start in October 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/uk-regulation-cryptoassets-start-october-2027-finance-ministry-says-2025-12-15/

2. Coinbase appoints George Osborne to run advisory council (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/coinbase-appoints-uk-ex-finance-minister-george-osborne-run-advisory-council-2025-12-18/

3. UK watchdog unveils proposals to regulate crypto market (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e8bc50e-2d35-46cc-a7c3-11cacf5f5143

4. UK Treasury drawing up new rules to police cryptocurrency markets (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/15/uk-treasury-drawing-up-new-rules-to-police-cryptocurrency-markets

5. U.S. bitcoin ETFs see strongest inflows for over a month (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/18/u-s-bitcoin-etfs-see-strongest-inflows-for-over-a-month-as-btc-dominance-hits-60

6. Bitcoin ETF IBIT ranks among top 2025 fund flows (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-etf-ibit-ranks-among-191610947.html

7. MSCI considers excluding bitcoin-heavy firms from indexes (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/strategy-bitcoin-buying-firms-face-wider-exclusion-stock-indexes-2025-12-19/

8. Strategy keeps buying Bitcoin; stock impact (Barron’s)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/strategy-bitcoin-buying-stock-81623253

9. Crypto investors show caution, shift strategies after crash (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/crypto-investors-show-caution-shift-new-strategies-after-crash-2025-12-17/

10. Bitcoin long-term holder supply hits 8-month low (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/17/bitcoin-long-term-holder-supply-hits-8-month-low-cycle-breaks-from-historical-patterns

11. Bitcoin hashrate sees sharpest post-halving drop since 2024 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/15/bitcoin-hashrate-sees-sharpest-post-halving-drop-since-2024-amid-china-mining-machine-shutdowns

12. Mining revenue thin; difficulty cuts; hashrate resilient (Bitcoin.com)
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining-revenue-remains-thin-yet-hashrate-refuses-to-blink/

13. Tether leads $8M investment in Speed (Lightning + stablecoins) (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/16/tether-leads-usd8-million-investment-in-speed-to-push-usdt-further-into-everyday-payments

14. BitGo enables Lightning Network payments from qualified custody (Bitcoin Magazine)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitgo-enables-lightning-network-payments

15. BitGo Lightning integration coverage (Crowdfund Insider)
https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/12/256681-bitgo-introduces-support-for-lightning-network-from-custody-enabling-scalable-bitcoin-payments/

16. JPMorgan launches tokenized money-market fund (WSJ)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/jpmorgan-steps-further-into-crypto-with-tokenized-money-fund-e3535f13

17. JPMorgan tokenized money market fund details (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-tokenized-money-market-fund-ethereum-blockchain-crypto-eth-2025-12

18. Visa launches stablecoin settlement for U.S. banks (Barron’s)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/visa-launches-stablecoin-settlement-bbe7b6a5

19. SoFi launches SoFiUSD stablecoin (Investor’s Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/sofi-technologies-sofiusd-stablecoin-launch/

20. SEC investor bulletin on crypto asset custody (coverage)
https://www.thecorporatecounsel.net/blog/2025/12/crypto-sec-issues-investor-bulletin-on-crypto-asset-custody.html

21. Weekly regulation roundup (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weekly-regulation-roundup-pardons-pullbacks-203552094.html

22. Bitcoin is all over the place ahead of U.S. inflation data (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/18/bitcoin-is-all-over-the-place-ahead-of-u-s-inflation-data-gold-nears-record-high

23. Bitcoin price today: muted near $88k after soft CPI data (Investing.com)
https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bitcoin-price-today-steady-near-87k-after-soft-us-cpi-data-set-for-weekly-loss-4416458

24. Binance Weekly Market Commentary (Binance Research)
https://www.binance.com/en/research/analysis/weekly-market-commentary-2025-12-19

25. “Phantom inflation” distorting Fed decisions (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d375109-9471-450b-8530-a6147ff7068e

26. Bostic: Fed should pause rate cuts (Barron’s)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/federal-reserve-raphael-bostic-inflation-interest-rates-69b78115

27. Apollo economist warns stagflation risk (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/stagflation-economy-outlook-2026-stock-market-fed-rate-cuts-inflation-2025-12

28. 2025 crypto theft reaches ~$3.4B (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

29. The Block coverage of Chainalysis theft totals (The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382477/crypto-hack-2025-chainalysis

30. Forbes: exchanges, regulation, AI, market structure
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roomykhan/2025/12/15/crypto-exchanges-regulation-ai-and-the-next-market-structure/

31. Messari: Crypto Venture Weekly (Dec 15–19, 2025)
https://messari.io/report/crypto-venture-weekly-december-15-19-2025

32. CoinDesk: State of the Blockchain 2025 (research)
https://www.coindesk.com/research/state-of-the-blockchain-2025

33. Nasdaq: IBIT option chain page
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/etf/ibit/option-chain

34. iShares: IBIT product page
https://www.ishares.com/us/products/333011/ishares-bitcoin-trust-etf