Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (October 29 – November 5, 2025)

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This week was a stark reminder that in the crypto arena, there is Bitcoin, and then there is everything else. While the altcoin circus continued its desperate performance, Bitcoin flexed its muscles, pushing decisively past the $75,000 mark and silencing the naysayers who doubted its resilience.The catalyst? A seismic shift in institutional sentiment, with another major asset manager filing for a spot Bitcoin ETF, a move that signals the old financial guard is finally capitulating to the inevitable dominance of digital gold. Forget the noise about 'Ethereum killers' and their fancy smart contracts; this was a week where the foundational thesis of Bitcoin as a sovereign, non-sovereign store of value was validated on a global stage.Meanwhile, in the altcoin zoo, the usual suspects provided the entertainment. A major DeFi protocol on a competing chain got exploited for nine figures, proving once again that if it's not on Bitcoin, it's just an elaborate and insecure beta test.Prediction markets, ever the barometer of degenerate sentiment, went into a frenzy, with odds swinging wildly on everything from the timing of the next Fed rate cut to the potential for a major stablecoin depeg—distractions, all of them, from the main event. The real story isn't in the fleeting pumps of meme coins or the hollow promises of 'Web3'; it's in the quiet, relentless accumulation of BTC by serious capital.As regulators fumble in the dark and altcoin founders make empty promises, Bitcoin simply continues to work, unbothered and unstoppable. The separation between the signal and the noise has never been clearer.

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