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Is Japan's Most Aggressive Rate Hike in History "Immune" to Bitcoin? A More Dangerous Signal Is Emerging
0.75%—The Bank of Japan implements a historic rate hike. According to the old script, Bitcoin should be bleeding profusely.
The bloody memories of the previous three rate hikes are still vivid: March 2024, July 2024, January 2025, each causing Bitcoin to plummet over 20%, with countless leveraged positions wiped out. The core logic is simple and brutal: the collapse of yen arbitrage trading, panic fleeing of funds borrowed in cheap yen to trade cryptocurrencies.
But this time, the script is
0.75%—The Bank of Japan implements a historic rate hike. According to the old script, Bitcoin should be bleeding profusely.
The bloody memories of the previous three rate hikes are still vivid: March 2024, July 2024, January 2025, each causing Bitcoin to plummet over 20%, with countless leveraged positions wiped out. The core logic is simple and brutal: the collapse of yen arbitrage trading, panic fleeing of funds borrowed in cheap yen to trade cryptocurrencies.
But this time, the script is
