Blockspace Pod: Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do)

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Historical data reveals Bitcoin's Thanksgiving-to-Christmas performance is a literal coin toss: 6 up years, 6 down years since 2012. Learn why orange pilling family is brutally hard and the only strategy that actually works. We analyze Bitcoin's historical holiday performance from 2012-2024, revealing that Thanksgiving-to-Christmas returns are a perfect 50/50 coin toss. We break down why 2017's spectacular bull run spoiled expectations, how the COVID-era 2020 produced the GOAT Thanksgiving shill with 69% gains, and why dollar cost averaging is the only advice worth giving your skeptical relatives. Plus: practical strategies for orange pilling family without ruining dinner. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • Bitcoin 50/50 up or down Thanksgiving to Christmas • 2020 had 69% gain, best holiday performance ever • 2017 bull run was 50% gains in one month • 1 in 7 Americans now own Bitcoin • Dollar cost averaging recommended strategy • ETFs make onboarding boomers easier now Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:25 It's all about family 03:34 Past holiday returns 06:24 2017 & 2020 holiday markets 07:52 FTX 12:52 Akshually, the returns average 6% - 👋Blockspace Pod 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? [email protected]

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0:00.0	Did you just try to orange pill your family over Thanksgiving and fail?
0:04.3	You're not alone.
0:05.5	There's probably a lot of you out there who just tried to chill your parents $80,000
0:10.5	Bitcoin down from its all-time high of $126,000.
0:14.7	This is how not to orange pill your family over the holidays.
0:26.7	Money will come and go.
0:28.0	We know that.
0:33.3	The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room.
0:35.3	Right here. Right now. That's right. It's all about family. right here right now
0:39.2	that's right
0:41.0	it's all about family
0:42.1	Colin
0:42.8	we're a family
0:44.6	we're in this together whether money
0:46.6	is here whether we
0:47.9	or it's there and
0:50.2	in case you were wondering if you were not watching
0:53.1	on video that was Vin Diesel it was not Sylvester Stallone.
0:57.4	They seem to have the same kind of garbled intonation.
1:02.7	But it's all about the family and the family that you told to buy Bitcoin in $126,000 because it was going up.
1:11.4	It's all about them this Thanksgiving and Christmas because they are going to come
1:14.9	for blood and they are mad at you.
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