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Welcome to a Christmas edition of the Bitcoin Renaissance!

This week, Braiins Pool marks 15 years of mining and over 1.3M BTC mined, reflecting the shift from solo to pooled mining. Bitcoin’s brief $24K flash crash on Binance highlights fragmented liquidity rather than a true market drop. In Asia, regulators move from promises to practical frameworks for stablecoins and tokenized assets. Amid macro headwinds, Bitcoin faces year-end weakness, showing how sentiment, adoption, and policy shape the market beyond price charts.

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🚀 Featured Stories

The world’s oldest Bitcoin mining pool turns 15, mined over 1.3M BTC. Braiins Pool (originally Slush Pool) celebrates its anniversary, marking 15 years of pooled mining and over 1,311,339 BTC mined—highlighting the evolution from solo miners to modern aggregated hash power.

Bitcoin’s “$24K flash crash” on Binance was an anomaly, not a market collapse. Bitcoin briefly printed ~$24,000 on Binance’s USD1 pair on Christmas Day due to thin liquidity, but broader markets remained near $87,000–$88,000, underscoring how fragmented exchange liquidity can produce misleading price prints.

Asia’s crypto rulebook evolves with stablecoins and RWA tokenization focus. Crypto regulation in Asia is shifting from high-level promises to practical frameworks that support stablecoins and tokenization, showing regional regulators are embracing digital assets in concrete ways.

Market narratives vs. reality: what truly drives crypto prices. Analysis highlights that beyond price charts, Bitcoin and altcoin movements are shaped by a mix of institutional adoption, policy shifts, and macro factors, not just market narratives.

Macro confidence wanes as Bitcoin market enters year-end weakness. As 2025 draws to a close, persistent macro headwinds and subdued confidence have kept Bitcoin below recent highs, emphasizing market sentiment’s role in price behavior.

💡Spotlight: CleanSpark, Inc.

CleanSpark, Inc. is a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CLSK. Founded in 1987 as an energy software firm, the company pivoted into Bitcoin mining in 2021 and has since become one of the largest pure-play Bitcoin miners in North America. CleanSpark operates a vertically integrated model, owning and operating its own mining facilities while managing power procurement in-house. The company brands itself as “America’s Bitcoin Miner” and focuses exclusively on Bitcoin rather than diversifying into other proof-of-work assets.

🛠 Key Features

• Vertically Integrated Mining: CleanSpark owns and operates its mining infrastructure rather than relying on third-party hosting. This gives the company direct control over uptime, costs, and expansion timelines.

• Power Strategy Focus: A core differentiator is CleanSpark’s emphasis on securing long-term, low-cost power contracts. The company builds or acquires sites where power access is already in place, reducing deployment risk and improving operating margins.

• Bitcoin-First Treasury Approach: CleanSpark retains a significant portion of the Bitcoin it mines, building a BTC treasury through production rather than large spot market purchases.

• Operational Scale: CleanSpark has consistently grown its hashrate through organic expansion and acquisitions, positioning itself among the top publicly traded Bitcoin miners by operational capacity.

📰 Recent News

CleanSpark has continued expanding its mining footprint across multiple U.S. states, particularly in energy-rich regions like Georgia and Mississippi. The company has reported steady month-over-month increases in hashrate and Bitcoin production throughout 2024 and 2025.

In addition to mining growth, CleanSpark has emphasized balance-sheet discipline, using structured financing and Bitcoin-backed credit facilities to fund expansion while limiting shareholder dilution.

The company has also signaled interest in leveraging its power infrastructure for adjacent compute opportunities, including high-performance and AI-related workloads, though Bitcoin mining remains its primary focus.

🔮 The Future

CleanSpark’s strategy centers on scaling hashrate alongside secured power capacity while maintaining capital efficiency. As Bitcoin’s network difficulty rises and weaker operators exit, CleanSpark aims to consolidate its position as a low-cost, large-scale miner.

Longer term, the company’s power-first infrastructure approach creates optionality. If demand for alternative compute workloads grows, CleanSpark is positioned to repurpose or dual-use its energy assets while continuing to treat Bitcoin mining as the core revenue engine.

CleanSpark is positioning itself not just as a miner, but as a long-duration infrastructure operator aligned with Bitcoin’s long-term growth.

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📣 Trending on X

Bitcoin Magazine shared a historical snapshot of Bitcoin prices on Christmas, showing a rise from $682 in 2013 to $87,800 in 2025.

Vivek Sen announced that Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, will launch Bitcoin and crypto-backed loans.

Trending Bitcoin shared a Milton Friedman quote stating that inflation is caused solely by excessive government spending and money creation.

CoinDesk reported that @CryptoHayes predicts Bitcoin could reach $500K–$750K, citing heavy money printing in 2026–27 under the Trump administration.