{"id":65017,"date":"2025-12-24T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65017"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:54:59","slug":"bitcoin-down-6-as-gold-shines-with-70-rally-to-4500-how-2025-surprised-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65017","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Down 6% As Gold Shines With 70% Rally To $4,500: How 2025 Surprised Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) sits around $87,000, down 6.4% in 2025, gold \u2014 tracked by the\u00a0<strong>iShares Gold Trust<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GLD\">GLD<\/a>)\u00a0\u2014 has returned over 70% and hit an all-time high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/commodities\/25\/12\/49549667\/trump-venezuela-war-maduro-out-oil-gold-reactions-prediction-markets\">above $4,500 this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Built Infrastructure, Gold Got The Capital<\/h3>\n<p>Bitcoin achieved milestones that seemed impossible five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spot ETFs pulled in over $132 billion from <strong>BlackRock Inc.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BLK\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BLK\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BLK\">BLK<\/a>), <strong>Grayscale<\/strong>, and <strong>Fidelity Investments<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy Inc.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) accumulated over 200,000 BTC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corporate treasuries treated Bitcoin as a legitimate diversifier, with digital asset treasuries holding over 1 million BTC collectively.<\/p>\n<p>On top of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49581223\/bitcoin-down-6-as-gold-shines-with-70-rally-to-4500-how-2025-surprised-everyone?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" down as gold shines with rally to how surprised everyone>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) sits around $87,000, down 6.4% in 2025, gold \u2014 tracked by the\u00a0iShares Gold Trust\u00a0(NYSE:GLD)\u00a0\u2014 has returned over 70% and hit an all-time high above $4,500 this year. Bitcoin Built Infrastructure, Gold Got The Capital Bitcoin achieved milestones that seemed impossible five years ago.\u00a0 Spot ETFs pulled in over $132 billion from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-65017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}