Arthur Hayes Named the Reason for Bitcoin’s Fall

Spread between reverse repo operations o/n and the yield on four-week US Treasury bills of ~0.9% limits the amount of liquidity for buying risky assets like bitcoin, said former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes.

The expert noted that since the moment when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced the easing of monetary policy in September, Bitcoin has lost 10% in price.

Hayes explained the negative dynamics by the fact that money market funds can move capital from short-term US Treasury bills (4.38%) to reverse repo transactions with the Federal Reserve (5.3%), which provides a risk-free return of 0.92%.

After Powell’s speech, the volume of the latter increased by $120 billion. According to the former CEO of BitMEX, this situation will continue as long as the rates T-Bill will be lower than RRP.

Futures show rate cut probability Fed by 25 bp at the meeting on September 18 is 69%, by 50 bp – 31%.

On the Polymarket prediction platform, these odds are are being evaluated 77% and 20%, respectively. The volume of bets reached $10.9 million.

From August 25 to August 31, clients withdrew $305 million from crypto funds. CoinShares analysts attributed the negative dynamics to macroeconomic data in the US, which reduced the likelihood of a 50 bps Fed interest rate cut.

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Source: Cryptocurrency

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