ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for December, 2025

Bitcoin falls again after weak November as bearish sentiment goes on December 1, 2025 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bitcoin-falls-5-below-90000-investors-ditch-risk-assets-2025-12-01/ Bitcoin slumped on Monday, with the world's largest cryptocurrency down about 6% and on track for its biggest daily percentage fall since early November, as risk aversion drove investors out of digital and other assets. [and from another] Cryptocurrency Craze February 4, 2018 https://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue592.htm The Bitcoin craze which started in 2009 has now spread to other, newer Crpytocurrencies, all likewise unregulated. [and from another] https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A585355&commentId=3863141%3AComment%3A1168940&xg_source=activity The crypto market suffered a sharp downturn on December 1, 2025, with over $400 million in liquidations occurring in just one hour. Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies saw steep price drops, triggering widespread concern across the market. [and from another] Market Crash May 29, 2022 https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/zetatalk-newsletter-as-of-may-29-2022 How safe is your savings account at the bank? If under $100,000 the FDIC will guarantee these funds if your bank goes belly up. What about Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? They are ephemeral and could disappear overnight. The Zetas call the debt based system that banks operate a Paper Promise – ephemeral. The Zetas have predicted that bank failure will be endemic, with the globe turning to the Barter System instead. [and from another] President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile March 6, 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-u-s-digital-asset-stockpile/ The Order creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve that will treat bitcoin as a reserve asset. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will be capitalized with bitcoin owned by the Department of Treasury that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings.  The United States will not sell bitcoin deposited into this Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will be maintained as a store of reserve assets. The Secretaries of Treasury and Commerce are authorized to develop budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional bitcoin, provided that those strategies impose no incremental costs on American taxpayers.

We predicted when Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies first emerged that they would prove to be vulnerable and thus ephemeral.  Cryptocurrencies are not backed by any country, thus the system can go poof with no one held accountable. Unlike the USD, which the FDIC guarantees up to $100,000 if a bank fails, or where a Plunge Protection Team can calm a plunge, cryptocurrencies have no brakes. They promise quick profits but also hold great risk.

But President Trump has addressed the reality of Bitcoin and other cryptos with his Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to hold any Bitcoin arriving as a result of a civil suit. Where the USD or other currencies might plunge in value to the extent that they are no longer used as a medium of exchange, Bitcoin is likely to remain as a link between Central Bank supported currencies and a frank Barter System.