Sixteen years after its launch, Bitcoin is no longer just an experiment with Cypherpunk or an anti-establishment asset. In 2025, the shoulders flowed to the politicians, institutions, and titans of Wall Street.
That shift was at full display at the recent Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, where Cointelegraph was on the ground to get the mood.
In the episode of this week of Byte-sized viewGareth Jenkinson of Cointelegraph explored whether politics and institutions were acquired by Bitcoin (Btc) or if it has become too important to ignore.
Bitcoin 2025 Shift
Once only a gathering of Bitcoin for hardcore believers, the conference now features well -known political figures such as US Vice President JD Vance, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and a host of institutional investors. Their presence indicates a seismic shift: Bitcoin is now stable in political and financial elite views.
One of the most noticeable -noticeable trends to emerge is the rise of Bitcoin treasury companies. Inspired by Michael Saylor of Microstrategy, companies such as metaplanet, twenty -one and Nakamoto are now putting bitcoin on their balance sheets and offers public investors a proxy on BTC exposure through equity markets.
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Gareth sat down with Dylan Leclair, director of Bitcoin strategy in metaplanet, which has recently been Japan’s most exchanged stock by volume and value. Leclair says:
“We’re all going. We’re going to sell our equity, our debt, our seats, everything to buy more Bitcoin and we won’t stop. Many people say these people are crazy … But there’s a base of Bitcoin in Japan (which) is so excited because there is nothing like them.”
Institutional adoption of bitcoin
Also featured in the episode are the Jack Malers, the outspoken CEO of Strike and founder of twenty -one, a new Bitcoin Treasury company supported by Tether, Softbank, and Cantor Fitzgerald.
Malers have received the growing attention to politics and institutions but emphasize that cases of using bitcoin are naturally emerging, from payments to long -term storage of value.
To get a historical view, Gareth also spoke with Adam Back, Blockstream CEO and Hashcash creator, the proof-of-work system referred to in Bitcoin’s white role.
The back offers a long look at how Bitcoin’s technical and social evolution reflects its global relationship increase. He offered the idea that adoption of the institution was another case of use.
“I think these are just new cases for Bitcoin. This is not what they do for Bitcoin, but this is what Bitcoin does for them that motivate them.”
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