Bitcoin Streak: The Last Time Was 2012
Bitcoin is currently holding near $87,000, while Zcash has led the broader crypto complex with a 10% single-session gain.
Bitcoin Streak: The Last Time Was 2012
Bitcoin is heading for a three-month consecutive winning streak not recorded since 2012, with a 10% gain through September pushing the asset toward that rare milestone, according to CoinDesk. The move comes as falling oil prices eased inflation concerns across Asian markets, giving risk assets room to breathe. Bitcoin is currently holding near $87,000, while Zcash has led the broader crypto complex with a 10% single-session gain.
The macroeconomic backdrop is only part of the story. A bill that would make the U.S. government's existing bitcoin stockpile permanent has advanced further through Congress than any previous legislation of its kind — a structural shift that, if it completes, would mark Washington's first formal long-term commitment to holding the asset on the national balance sheet.
In 2012, bitcoin was trading below $15. The asset that lawmakers are now debating locking into federal reserves permanently is a different instrument entirely — one that has survived regulatory cycles, exchange collapses, and multiple 80% drawdowns to arrive here, at the edge of institutional permanence.
What the milestone means for retail investors in Malta is measurable: bitcoin's September trajectory has moved prediction markets on a U.S. strategic reserve confirmation to above 60%, per aggregated platform data. That is the number nobody is saying out loud in the congressional debate — but it is the number moving the price.
The 2012 comparison is not nostalgia. It is a warning about how fast the framing changes.
