On December 22, 2025, a poll shared by Peter Schiff on X saw 59% of more than 21,000 participants choose Bitcoin over gold and silver for a hypothetical $100,000 investment held until 2028. Schiff continues to argue that Bitcoin diverts capital from precious metals, even as he highlights that gold has climbed from about $1,800/oz in November 2021 to around $4,400/oz while Bitcoin rose from $69,000 to roughly $88,000 over the same period.

Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital's head of firmwide research, expects Bitcoin to reach $250,000 by the end of 2027. He cautioned that 2026 is hard to forecast and said options markets currently assign equal odds of $50,000 or $250,000 by the end of next year, reflecting heightened near‑term uncertainty.

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox recently said he is bearish on Bitcoin because he believes its community culture has become closed to innovation and hostile to developers. He argued that even a strong technical design cannot survive if the surrounding culture rejects change, contrasting this with his goal of keeping Zcash highly open to evolution. His comments followed a dispute between Aleo CEO Alex Pruden and Bitcoin maximalist "Coinjoined Chris" over post-quantum security tools for Bitcoin.

A long-inactive Ethereum pre-mine address holding 2,000 ETH, valued at about $5.9 million, has moved again after more than a decade. The tokens were acquired during the first 14 days of the 2014 sale at a fixed rate of 2,000 ETH per 1 BTC, with the buyer paying exactly 1 Bitcoin (around $600). Other large wallets also reactivated on Dec. 1 and Dec. 10.

XRP Ledger has activated the fixDirectoryLimit amendment, removing the hard‑coded cap on directory pages and relying on Owner Reserves to deter spam. The update aims to stop tecDIR_FULL failures when a single price level draws thousands of offers (e.g., 500 bids at $2.50), improving user experience for traders and reducing unnecessary checks for validators.

SBI VC Trade, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, will open a new recruitment window for its "Rent Coin" crypto lending service at 20:00 (JST) on Dec. 18, 2025. The program supports 34 assets, including XRP, Bitcoin (BTC), and Dogecoin (DOGE), with fixed lock-up options such as one week or 28 days and usage fees paid in the same coin.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt has warned that XRP's chart may be forming a double-top pattern, with price action now threatening a key neckline support. If this classical setup completes, XRP could slide back toward the $0.50 area, while a sharp move above $2.00 would invalidate the bearish scenario Brandt is tracking.

According to a tweet from VanEck early this morning, the firm will not publish 2026 crypto predictions. Its 2025 outlook had projected Bitcoin at $180,000, Ethereum at $6,000, and Solana at $500; by mid-December 2025, BTC is near $86,000, ETH around $3,000, and SOL close to $130 amid a Q4 correction.

On Dec. 15, 2025, CNBC's Jim Cramer posted on X that Bitcoin is "easy to prop up." The comment came after a reported $980.3 million of buying between Dec. 8 and Dec. 14 at an average $92,124, with prices falling toward $85,000 as users leaned into the "Inverse Cramer" meme.