Everyone remembers the top. Almost nobody remembers the round trip. Bitcoin in 2025 handed us both — and the second half is the part worth keeping. Can I confess something before we get near the numbers? I have chased a high before. Watched a chart run, felt that hot little voice whisper this time it […]
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Here’s the part that should keep you up at night: as far as anyone can tell, nobody at Bybit did anything careless. No one clicked a dodgy link or reused a password. They followed their own security rules to the letter — and lost $1.5 billion anyway. That’s the story worth understanding, because it’s the
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For years, the US government had one consistent relationship with Bitcoin: seize it from criminals, sit on it a while, then sell it — usually at precisely the wrong moment, with the timing instincts of someone flogging umbrellas on the first sunny morning of the monsoon. Then, in March 2025, Washington had a change of
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October 1–2, 2025 · Marina Bay Sands, Singapore There is something gloriously on-brand about 25,000 people flying to Singapore, taking over a five-floor casino resort complete with ziplines, rock-climbing walls and cold plunges, and then spending two days earnestly agreeing that the wild party is finally over. That, in a sentence, was TOKEN2049 Singapore —
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November 12–14, 2025 · Singapore EXPO There were no Lamborghinis in the car park. That, more than any keynote, is how you measure the distance crypto has travelled. The Singapore FinTech Festival is where the people who actually run the money system gather — central bankers, the heads of the world’s largest asset managers, regulators
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September 22–27, 2025 · Seoul, South Korea At most crypto conferences, the nearest thing to a celebrity is a founder in an expensive hoodie. At Korea Blockchain Week, actual pop stars turned up — along with, by several accounts, the directors of a wildly popular film about K-pop demon hunters. That single detail tells you
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October 13, 2025 · Old Billingsgate, London There is a joke buried in the venue, and I refuse to believe anyone planned it. Europe’s most senior gathering of traditional finance and crypto took place at Old Billingsgate, which for the better part of a thousand years was London’s fish market. Bankers from Goldman Sachs, Citi
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December 2025 · Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi Somewhere between the tokenised uranium and the artificially intelligent whiskey appraiser, I began to suspect that Solana’s annual conference had rather lost its inhibitions. Breakpoint 2025 brought us a small Himalayan kingdom proposing to put its national gold reserves onto a blockchain, an investment bank arranging commercial paper
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May 27–29, 2025 · The Venetian, Las Vegas Let me tell you my favourite fact in all of finance, and I promise you need to know absolutely nothing about computers to enjoy it. When Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor switched the thing on in January 2009, he tucked a little message into its very first entry —
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Spring 2025 · Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai I want you to picture the scene, because I do not think I could invent it. Fifteen thousand people, seventy per cent of them chief-something-or-others, gathered on the Dubai coastline to discuss the future of global finance — and the official programme offered them ziplines, a climbing wall, cold
