2025 - A Spicy Year In Review

Hey Shitcoiners,

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2025 is almost over! At Shitcoin.com HQ we have been digging through the archives to bring you the highs and the lows from the last 12 months. It has been another wild year in the trenches. Let’s get to it. We started January with mixed emotions.

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And we also saw a rare appearance from GCR. It turns out many market participants didn’t heed his advice.

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Throughout the year we had plenty of “level talk”. Riveting stuff!

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The Spiciest Moments of 2025

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In a year of maximum flip-flopping in the order books, there were some glimmers of spice on the timeline. We kick this section off with CL. He bought a tank.

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Arthur had a strong year too. Here’s one of our favourite clips from him at the clerb.

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Murad is still telling everyone to buy his preferred memecoins and his glow up is making his picks more investable.

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Honorable mention here for ZachXBT too. You can tell him he’s under-appreciated and he will reply in the only way he knows how. Thank you for your service!

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Shoutout to Nick. He has been engagement farming us throughout 2025 and we love it. He allegedly got a girlfriend. Special emphasis there on “allegedly”.

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While most of the timeline was getting rekt on perps, Taiki was cleaning up. He shorted ETH and nailed it.

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We have a new GCR now.

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Former wagecuck Jmo had a strong year. Here is a banger from him.

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To show we are cultured, we have a special shoutout to cryptograffiti. When it comes to art, he is as S-tier as they come.

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And this section would not be complete without a special mention for the jacket.

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Bitcoin

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BTC hit an all-time high of $126K in October but has gradually retreated to the $87-88K range at the time of writing. It has been a year of ups and downs with many now turning bearish going into the new year. However, it must be difficult for Saylor to be bearish when his home office looks like this.

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Was 2025 the year that Lightning finally took off? No, it was not.

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We don’t think endless price commentary is what you came here for, but we did get some festive charts this year.

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Zcash is Back

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It has been a long running meme that Zcash would go down forever. Well, Q3 would spell a end to that.

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Shielded burritos.

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Arthur continued to pump his ZEC bags as he ran spicy competitions. Here’s one of our favourite entries.

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Unfortunately though we are still waiting for more privacy clarity.

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TRUMP

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We had high hopes for the Trump administration going into 2025 and Donald started the year strong.

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He got so into crypto that he couldn’t help but launch a memecoin of his own!

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And it did numbers.

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The illuminati have arrived.

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Billions would be made.

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But they had to take it one step too far. RIP.

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Classic.

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Even with the memecoin shenanigans dying down, Trump would keep mentioning us every so often. The US finally got up to speed.

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They even started hosting dinners with the nerds!

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We have been hearing about the strategic reserve and it looked like things were progressing in the right direction.

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The US was looking far better than the giga-cucked EU at this point.

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Institutional Investors and Treasury Companies

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For years we have been hearing about the institutions entering the space. With US regulation evolving, it seemed that it was time.

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That would not stop “institutional investors” blowing up though.

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This year also saw the rise of the crypto treasury company.

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The bar was very low.

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Silk Road and Ross

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2025 was a monumental year for Ross Ulbricht. He would finally be a free man!

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GMI.

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Free Roger

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Roger Ver was fighting a legal battle of his own this year. The community jumped to his defence.

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As did Ross and Vitalik.

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It took some time, but Roger was also made a free man!

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Cobie and Coinbase

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Cobie was quiet for a lot of the year, but October would basically mark his comeback. All it took was someone to drop $25M on the NFT.

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We are still waiting for the first episode to drop. Expectations are high.

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But that $25M was just the appetiser. We also learned that his investment platform, Echo, was being acquired!

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Gg Cobie. Not a billionaire yet but he’s doing alright.

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You can make $400M and still be doing customer support though. RIP.

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The Bybit Hack

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Bybit’s customer support was definitely tested this year as they suffered the largest hack in crypto history.

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They did keep up their side of the bargain and managed to keep withdrawals flowing.

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North Korea was ecstatic.

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And their hackers are the best of the best.

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Hyperliquid and the Perp DEX Wars

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Hyperliquid has become a staple when it comes to Perp DEXs. After the success of their airdrop last year, volume has been continually flowing. Competition heated up over who would win the vote to be Hyperliquid’s first natively minted USD stablecoin.

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