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$BTC slid to $63,000 after signals from the Federal Reserve pointed toward a more restrictive rate posture, pulling the token down despite a brief counterweight from diplomatic progress in the Middle East.
A developing peace deal involving Iran offered what traders treated as limited comfort — not enough to offset the macro headwind. Fed Signals Do the Heavy Lifting The proximate driver here was monetary, not on-chain.
When the Fed tilts hawkish — signaling it intends to keep rates elevated or resist cutting them — risk assets tend to reprice lower, and Bitcoin is no exception.
Higher rates raise the opportunity cost of holding a non-yielding asset; capital that might otherwise sit in speculative positions finds better-compensated alternatives in fixed income.
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