What will happen to Bitcoin after Trump’s inauguration

Newly elected US President Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order that will make cryptocurrency policy a priority nationwide. In addition, large representatives of the blockchain industry will be able to influence decisions made by the presidential administration. Sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg journalists.

Newly elected US President Donald Trump in a Pubkey bar

The executive order is expected to identify cryptocurrency as a national imperative or priority. Accordingly, government agencies will be motivated to engage with the blockchain industry rather than avoid it.


Let us remind you that over the last four years, the US authorities have been recommending banks to stop co-operating with cryptocurrency companies, which made life much more difficult for the latter. This was done through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) at an unofficial level.

What was happening was dubbed Operation Strike 2.0, with evidence of such a policy being in place in early December 2024 during a court case.


Such an executive order by Trump would represent a radical shift in the way the US government views the digital asset industry. Still, Joe Biden’s administration and major financial regulators represented by the Securities Commission have been actively fighting the crypto niche over the past few years. For example, the SEC under the leadership of Gary Gensler has filed more than a hundred lawsuits against representatives of the blockchain industry, while refusing to clarify clear rules for regulating the niche.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse

In addition, such actions can lead to the termination of litigation with cryptocurrency companies, if the case is not about fraud. Which means the SEC’s claims against the issuer of the XRP cryptocurrency called Ripple and the largest crypto exchange Binance could be a thing of the past.

Bloomberg sources emphasised that the content of the decree, the publication of which is expected as early as Monday, is not final and could change.

Here’s a comment on what’s going on from Kara Calvert, vice president of U.S. policy at Coinbase Global Inc.

I think Donald Trump is signalling that the United States is getting back in the game and is ready to lead the industry again. This will be a signal to other countries – be careful or you risk being left behind.

What the cryptocurrency market will be like in 2025

A change in the US government’s policy towards cryptocurrencies will boost the coin market. According to analysts at JPMorgan Bank, Bitcoin will continue to expand its dominance in 2025 on the back of Efirium and other altcoins, meaning that the first cryptocurrency’s share of the industry’s total capitalisation will grow.

Cryptocurrency investors during the bullrun

What follows is analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou’s commentary on what’s happening, as quoted by The Block.

We expect BTC’s dominance over ETH and other altcoins to continue into 2025. There are several reasons for this.

In total, experts highlight eight factors for Bitcoin’s growing popularity in 2025:

1. Bitcoin, along with gold, remains the main component of so-called depreciation trades, that is, investors’ attempts to preserve their own capital amid the declining value of the dollar. That’s evident in the influx of capital into spot BTC ETFs, which totalled $626.1 million at Thursday’s close.
2. MicroStrategy will continue to buy bitcoins in large volumes as part of its 21/21 plan. It involves raising $42 billion to be spent on buying the cryptocurrency. The giant is now only halfway through the implementation of this initiative.
3. Analysts assume that the accumulation of crypto by individual US states, the national government and even banks will primarily focus on Bitcoin. Accordingly, the perception of cryptocurrency by ordinary investors will also improve.
4. The development of the Bitcoin network continues. In addition, second-level chains based on BTC allow smart contracts to be launched, which makes this blockchain more versatile.
5. Institutional-level applications are increasingly moving to blockchain, which creates conditions for the popularisation of this trend.
6. New projects are increasingly choosing to develop infrastructure rather than issuing their own tokens. An example of such a trend is the emergence of the L2-chain Base from the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Thus, the value of existing cryptocurrencies with a serious reputation becomes even higher.
7. Many decentralised applications have been successful, but then the number of their users went down along with the value of the native token. For example, this happened with popular platforms Friend.tech, Farcaster and Lens, which means it takes longer to find the real utility of blockchain apps. Well, Bitcoin’s role has been clear for a while now.
8. The situation with cryptocurrency regulation should improve in the US. However, the prospects of introducing popular altcoins into traditional finance remain unclear, while BTC continues to be the best-known cryptocurrency in the world.

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor


So far, sources are hinting that Donald Trump's second term as president could prove to be the best period in the crypto's entire existence. Still, politicians may not only end the government's fight against the coin industry, but also promote its development. Such a turnaround would clearly be enough to keep the bullrun going.


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