The biggest news of 2025 and the hottest takes on 2026

This is the best round-up of the year. That other one you read was smooth-brained, forget it.

Here we are at the actual end of the year. Other newsletters did their year-end lists weeks ago. But you never know with crypto! Anything could happen!

One day you’re plugging along amidst the liminal space of an unraveling bull market, then you wake up one morning and it turns out a YouTube rapper has four billion dollars worth of stolen bitcoin.

Life co…