Bitcoin slipped below $88,000 on Wednesday as trading remained thin into the end of the year and investors weighed the outlook for U.S. interest rates. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was last down 0.7% at $87,753.
Bitcoin rose about 1.2% to $88,512 in early trade on Wednesday, holding near the $88,000 level. Ether gained 0.5% to $2,973, while U.S.-listed crypto proxies were mixed, with Coinbase down 0.9%, Strategy up 0.1%, and miners Marathon and Riot down 1.8% and 3.8%; iShares Bitcoin Trust was up about 0.9% in the latest available trade.
MARA Holdings Inc shares slipped 1.1% to $9.49 in the last session, after trading between $9.38 and $9.84 on volume of about 29.6 million shares. Bitcoin fell about 2% to $87,869.
IREN Limited shares fell about 2.3% in after-hours trading — the session after the 4 p.m. close — and were last at $39.41. The stock traded between $38.55 and $42.25 on Monday, with volume near 21.9 million shares.
Bitcoin was little changed near $87,500 on Monday afternoon, after briefly pushing above $90,000 earlier in the session, as traders navigated choppy year-end markets.
IREN Limited shares last closed down 4% at $40.30, extending a recent pullback for the bitcoin miner-turned-AI infrastructure play into the final trading days of 2025. Investing.com
Strategy Inc shares ended nearly flat on Friday at $158.81, after sliding more than 3% at their session low in thin post-holiday trading. Yahoo Finance
At 12:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, crypto-related stocks in the U.S. are mostly trading higher even as Bitcoin and Ethereum drift lower, underscoring a theme that’s defined much of December: company-specific catalysts and “AI pivot” narratives can briefly overpower the day-to-day tape of crypto prices.
Riot Platforms, Inc. is getting hit by the classic crypto-equity gravity well on Monday, December 15, 2025: when Bitcoin slips, publicly traded miners often fall harder.
Dec. 14, 2025 — For years, the crypto-mining story has been told as a race: more machines, cheaper power, bigger facilities, higher hashrate. This week, the story shifted into something sharper—and more consequential for the future of proof-of-work.
Crypto-linked stocks are starting Friday’s premarket with modest moves as bitcoin hovers near $92,000, ETF flows stay choppy, and investors brace for a potentially high-impact Nasdaq-100 reshuffle that could affect Strategy. Reuters+1
Crypto‑linked stocks on US exchanges fell on Thursday as Bitcoin hovered around the psychologically important $90,000level and investors rotated out of high‑beta tech and AI names after a hawkish‑sounding Federal Reserve rate cut and a brutal earnings reaction in Oracle.Reuters+1
Below is a detailed breakdown of how the major U.S.-listed crypto stocks traded after the bell on December 10, 2025, and what today’s news and forecasts signal for the months ahead.
U.S. equities finished mixed but little changed on Tuesday as traders digested President Donald Trump’s approval of limited Nvidia H200 chip sales to China and the start of a two‑day Federal Reserve policy meeting. The Dow slipped roughly 0.3%, the Nasdaq added about 0.1%, and the S&P 500 drifted around flat in late trade. Investopedia
After a euphoric run to new all‑time highs above $126,000 in October, Bitcoin has spent late 2025 in a sharp drawdown, trading closer to the mid‑$80,000–$90,000 range. ETF investors pulled a record $3.79 billion from US spot bitcoin ETFs in November as BTC fell roughly 33% from its peak, raising fresh “crypto winter 2.0” fears. 24/7 Wall St.
Riot Platforms Inc. has just wrapped up one of its most important reporting windows of the year: record third‑quarter earnings, a fresh November production update, and a wave of new analyst research focused on its evolving identity as both a Bitcoin miner and an AI‑era data center operator.