On New Year's Eve, major US brokerage firm Robinhood pulled off a high-profile stunt by dropping $500,000 worth of Dogecoin. The market quickly tried to turn it into a Bitcoin story.
The effectiveness of this presentation lies in its simplicity. Robinhood distributed $500,000 worth of DOGE. The community then tagged Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev with the message “Come on BTC,” turning the meme coin drop into a public challenge to Tenev using Bitcoin as his next move.
What made it stick this time was Tenev's admission of framing Bitcoin. His response was brief, but it is unusual enough in this context for market enthusiasts to interpret it as an acknowledgment that the BTC story is reaching him, rather than just circulating within the CryptoX community. This is important in the last few months of the year when everyone is looking for signs of more than one perk.
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— Vlad Tenev (@vladtenev) December 28, 2025
Bitcoin also happens to be at a level where stories can easily spread. On the daily chart of BTCUSDT, the price of the cryptocurrency is holding around $87,989, with the mid-Bollinger line around $88,565 acting as a key resistance level.
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At the same time, the upper band costs about $92,473 and the lower band costs about $84,657. This defines the range and the market is essentially waiting for a catalyst to determine the next move.
I will do that in the new year. Calendar changes bring new positioning and social feeds are filled with big numbers talking. A CEO being tagged as “doing BTC” is exactly the kind of low-effort spark that will make the sleepy $88,000 market feel like a story again.
