Many people are convinced that BTC will continue to soar, and the reason is nothing more than this: the Fed is about to cut interest rates, and how could prices fall during an interest rate cut cycle?
But have you ever considered this—
From 2023 to 2025, over these three years, Bitcoin surged from $16,000 all the way to $110,000 in an environment of quantitative tightening and interest rate hikes. By conventional logic, shouldn’t it have fallen?
If prices can rise during rate hikes and also rise during rate cuts, what kind of signal do these policies actually send? To put it bluntly, macro policy is more like the background of the stage, not the direction of the script.
What the market truly cares about has never been whether the Fed holds a meeting or cuts rates, but three things: when liquidity will loosen, when market expectations will shift, and when big money is willing to step in and take over.
So those simplistic conclusions like "rate hikes = bearish" and "rate cuts = bullish" simply don’t hold water in a market as highly sensitive to capital as crypto.
Whether the market rises or not doesn’t hinge on a particular headline, but rather on this: capital needs an outlet, and Bitcoin just happens to be the most convenient target.
That’s also why the same rate hike cycle can produce all-time highs. Conversely, it’s also possible for Bitcoin to enter a bear market during an interest rate cut cycle.
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CommunityLurker
· 1h ago
This logic is a bit wild—markets go up when rates are raised, and they go up when rates are cut too... So what are we even after?
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TooScaredToSell
· 6h ago
To be honest, macro narratives are just a facade; capital flow is what really matters.
Forget it, better wait for the big whales to make a move first.
Rate cuts don't mean a thing; the key is when institutions decide to enter.
Rates could go up to 110,000 and still rise, or drop after a rate cut—this logic would drive anyone crazy.
The theory of capital outflows sounds reasonable, but who knows where the next exit will be?
At the end of the day, you have to trust your own holdings; the whole macro game has been played out ages ago.
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digital_archaeologist
· 12h ago
Honestly, I've always thought this set of macro logic is a joke in the crypto space—prices go up with rate hikes and also go up with rate cuts, so what's the point of analyzing?
At the end of the day, it's still just a game of capital; nobody cares how the Fed holds its meetings.
Prices can still fall during a rate-cut cycle; I've seen it happen too many times.
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MevTears
· 12-07 12:50
This logic is wild—prices can rise with rate hikes and also with rate cuts, so basically, we're just betting on capital flows.
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YieldHunter
· 12-07 12:50
nah this is actually the real tea tho. if you look at the data, macro narratives are basically just cope for people who can't read on-chain metrics. liquidity flows > fed speeches, period.
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ImpermanentPhilosopher
· 12-07 12:48
Well said, finally someone has pointed out the obvious. The market rises when interest rates go up, and also rises when they go down—no one can really explain it. It's just capital playing games.
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GateUser-4745f9ce
· 12-07 12:47
Damn, that really hit the nail on the head. Macro policy is just a facade; the key is still to see where the money is flowing.
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FreeRider
· 12-07 12:23
Well said, we really can't just blindly follow the Fed's policies—capital flows are what truly matter.
Many people are convinced that BTC will continue to soar, and the reason is nothing more than this: the Fed is about to cut interest rates, and how could prices fall during an interest rate cut cycle?
But have you ever considered this—
From 2023 to 2025, over these three years, Bitcoin surged from $16,000 all the way to $110,000 in an environment of quantitative tightening and interest rate hikes. By conventional logic, shouldn’t it have fallen?
If prices can rise during rate hikes and also rise during rate cuts, what kind of signal do these policies actually send? To put it bluntly, macro policy is more like the background of the stage, not the direction of the script.
What the market truly cares about has never been whether the Fed holds a meeting or cuts rates, but three things: when liquidity will loosen, when market expectations will shift, and when big money is willing to step in and take over.
So those simplistic conclusions like "rate hikes = bearish" and "rate cuts = bullish" simply don’t hold water in a market as highly sensitive to capital as crypto.
Whether the market rises or not doesn’t hinge on a particular headline, but rather on this: capital needs an outlet, and Bitcoin just happens to be the most convenient target.
That’s also why the same rate hike cycle can produce all-time highs. Conversely, it’s also possible for Bitcoin to enter a bear market during an interest rate cut cycle.