As December 2025 kicks off, Bitcoin (BTC) is teetering on the edge of a seismic shift. Trading at around $86,000 after a brutal 6% plunge from its October all-time high of $126,000, the crypto king is staring down a potential game-changer from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Analysts are buzzing about the end of quantitative tightening (QT)—the Fed's long-running effort to drain liquidity from the economy—which has shrunk its balance sheet from a peak of $9 trillion to $6.6 trillion since 2022.e22963 This "flip" to quantitative easing (QE) could flood markets with fresh liquidity, supercharging risk assets like BTC and potentially triggering a jaw-dropping price rally