Bitcoin Snaps Downtrend, Hits $105K as Anticipation Builds for Trump's Inauguration

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Bitcoin ( BTC ) hit its strongest price in U.S. dollar terms in 2025 on Friday and notched a new record against the British pound as excitement for a new era of crypto-friendly U.S. government mounts ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration next week. BTC topped $105,000 during the U.S. session, surging 5.2% over the past 24 hours and leading the broad-market crypto benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index higher. Of the CoinDesk 20 constituents, only NEAR , and Litecoin's LTC kept pace with bitcoin's gains, whi...