{"id":39390,"date":"2025-12-19T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39390"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:50:08","slug":"bitcoins-price-slumps-before-christmas-despite-strong-cpi-data-your-weekly-crypto-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39390","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s Price Slumps Before Christmas Despite Strong CPI Data: Your Weekly Crypto Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>2025 is rapidly coming to an end, and even though it was quite spectacular for a large part, it&#8217;s likely to turn out to be a red year for BTC. The past week or so didn&#8217;t help the cryptocurrency either.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the asset was already rejected at $94,500 on a couple of occasions during the previous business week when the US Federal Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/us-fed-cuts-rates-bitcoin-price-stabilizes-above-90k-zec-reignates-rally-your-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">cut<\/a> the interest rates. Then, all eyes turned on the following several days due to the release of more key economic data, as volatility was <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/crypto-markets-brace-for-volatility-amid-massive-week-ahead-for-economic-data\/\">expected<\/a> to be quite high.<\/p>\n<p>The business week began on the wrong foot as BTC was pushed south by several grand on Monday afternoon. It <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-rejected-at-90k-again-hype-plunges-by-another-10-market-watch\/\">dropped<\/a> from $90,000 to under $86,000 within just a few hours. It tried to recover some ground and exploded on Wednesday to almost $90,500. However, this turned out be another fake-out and bitcoin quickly lost all the momentum, dumping below $85,500.<\/p>\n<p>The community turned its focus on Thursday&#8217;s release of CPI data in the US. Although both the core and regular Consumer Price Index <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/lower-than-expected-us-cpi-sparks-instant-bitcoin-price-reaction\/\">showed<\/a> a lot healthier inflation levels than expected, the positive effects on BTC&#8217;s price were very brief. The cryptocurrency jumped immediately from $87,000 to $89,500, where it was stopped again and driven south to a multi-week low of $84,500.<\/p>\n<p>It managed to find some support there and now sits around $88,000. This means that it has dropped by almost 5% weekly, which is still less than some other big losers, such as ETH (-9%), SOL (-10%), ADA (-14%), LINK (-12%), and HYPE (-18%). XMR is the only exception here, with a weekly increase of 5%.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"market-data\" class=\"resource-jumplink\">Market Data<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1423800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1423800\" style=\"width: 1880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-19-160047.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1423800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptocurrency Market Overview Weekly. Source QuantifyCrypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Market Cap: $3.053T | 24H Vol: $166B | BTC Dominance: 57.5%<\/p>\n<p>BTC: $88,000 (-4.9%) | ETH: $2,960 (-9%) | XRP: $1.87 (-8.6%)<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"this-weeks-crypto-headlines-you-cant-miss\" class=\"resource-jumplink\">This Week\u2019s Crypto Headlines You Can\u2019t Miss<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Terraform Labs Sues Jump Trading for $4B Over Alleged $1B Profit from Terra Collapse<\/strong>. Jump Trading has been <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/terraform-labs-sues-jump-trading-for-4b-over-alleged-1b-profit-from-terra-collapse\/\">sued<\/a> for $4 billion by Terraform Lab&#8217;s court-appointed administrator for secretly profiting from the overall collapse of the Terra ecosystem, including its two native tokens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Base Launches Tokenized \u2018Everything App\u2019 for Social, Trading, and Payments<\/strong>. After the beta release of the so-called &#8216;Everything app&#8217; in July this year, Coinbase&#8217;s new product has officially <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/base-launches-tokenized-everything-app-for-social-trading-and-payments\/\">launched<\/a>, aiming to bring social features, trading, payments, and earning tools together into a single platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethereum Network Slumps to 12-Month Low: What the Retail Exodus Means<\/strong>. The world&#8217;s second-largest blockchain has seen an evident exodus of retail participants, with the network usage dumping to a yearly low. However, CryptoQuant <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-network-slumps-to-12-month-low-what-the-retail-exodus-means\/\">indicated<\/a> that such previous instances have been used by long-term investors to accumulate ETH quietly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin (BTC) Has Entered a Bearish Phase, Structural Indicators Confirm<\/strong>. BTC&#8217;s price chart for the past two and a half months has been quite painful, showcasing a massive 30+% drop from the October ATH of over $126,000. As such, some analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-btc-has-entered-a-bearish-phase-structural-indicators-confirm\/\">argued<\/a> that the asset&#8217;s structure has shifted toward a bear market phase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s Mining Crackdown Drives Bitcoin Hashrate to Three-Month Low<\/strong>. Aside from the struggling price movements, Bitcoin was hit on another front &#8211; the hash rate. The key metric supporting the network&#8217;s health has <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/chinas-mining-crackdown-drives-bitcoin-hashrate-to-three-month-low\/\">dropped<\/a> to a three-month low as China&#8217;s crackdown continues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Bitcoin Entering a Supercycle? Here\u2019s Why This One Looks Different<\/strong>. Whether or not the bear market has started is still up for debate, but analysts appear convinced that the old four-year cycle is no more. Instead, certain metrics <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/is-bitcoin-entering-a-supercycle-heres-why-this-one-looks-different\/\">suggest<\/a> that BTC now operates within a single large supercycle.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoins-price-slumps-before-christmas-despite-strong-cpi-data-your-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">Bitcoin&#8217;s Price Slumps Before Christmas Despite Strong CPI Data: Your Weekly Crypto Recap<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoins-price-slumps-before-christmas-despite-strong-cpi-data-your-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 is rapidly coming to an end, and even though it was quite spectacular for a large part,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}