BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin By The Numbers in 2025

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🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The 2025 River Bitcoin Report is in and it shows that funds/ETFs are hoovering up your Bitcoin! You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com We break down the 2024 River Financial Report. What countries are buying? Which funds are buying? What does the average Bitcoin user look like? And what the heck is up with Lightning these days? Notes: • Lightning mixed: up & down • ETFs are buying individuals Bitcoin • Sovereigns are starting to but BTC • Good vs Bad changes to Bitcoin in 2024 Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. Timestamps 00:00 Intro Bitcoin Season 2 Writers Room 00:22 Institutions Are Buying All Your Bitcoin 02:42 How ETFs & Institutions Are Changing Bitcoin 05:35 MicroStrategy’s Massive Bitcoin Holdings 12:03 Nation-States & Governments Holding Bitcoin 16:26 Bitcoin’s Bull Case How Early Are We 22:27 ETFs & The 2024 Bitcoin Bull Market 26:50 The State of the Bitcoin Lightning Network 39:00 Stablecoins Adoption & Bitcoin’s Use Cases 42:03 Bitcoin Protocol Upgrades & Future Development - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	A new report from River Financial proves that institutions and ETFs are buying up all of your
0:05.7	Bitcoin. If you are an individual who's been self-custening, you are on track to become the
0:11.2	minority. This week on Bitcoin Season 2, Riders Room.
0:19.6	Everyone is a digital surf now.
0:23.6	You will own all of your Bitcoin in a Black Rock,
0:26.6	custody, ETF, and you will be happy.
0:29.6	That's true. You'll be very happy.
0:32.6	And if you're wondering what we're talking about,
0:34.6	this is Bitcoin Season 2, Riders Room.
0:36.6	This is where Charlie and Colin
0:38.3	talk about what's happening
0:41.4	this particular season of Bitcoin.
0:43.4	We play the screenwriters.
0:45.2	We highly editorialize our opinions
0:47.6	and takes on things happening.
0:50.0	If you're not aware,
0:51.4	the landscape of Bitcoin research,
0:53.3	there's always some report coming out.
0:54.7	But this past week or two, we saw River Financial, one of the most respected like Bitcoin
1:00.1	custodian, like private client services companies, drop a report.
1:04.4	They're known for their research on the Lightning Network in particular.
1:08.1	But they just put out a report called Bitcoin Adoption Report
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