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How Crypto Markets Are Responding to Odds of an Interest Rate Hike

"If inflation continues to remain sticky, [Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell] is going to push us into a deeper recession than anyone wants to admit," Tactive Wealth Advisor Eddy Gifford said. Gifford also discusses the crypto market's reaction to recent U.S. monetary policy.

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World's Leading Central Banks' Balance Sheets Look to Have Troughed

The world's most influential central banks appear to have stopped shrinking their balance sheets, a tactic they adopted last year to control inflation in a program that destabilized risk assets, including cryptocurrencies. "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the crypto industry and global finance at large.

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Peter McCormack: Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong

Podcaster Peter McCormack is out with a new opinion piece in CoinDesk's Consensus Magazine, discussing the seeming return of bitcoin's inflation hedge thesis and what it takes to get people into bitcoin. McCormack also weighs in on Balaji Srinivasan's bet that bitcoin will reach $1 million, writing in part, "my concern, like many bitcoiners is that we’re still not ready for a world where Balaji’s prediction is proven correct, and if he is right, we have much bigger problems to worry about."

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Ставка Баладжі Срінівасана на Bitcoin в 1 мільйон доларів може бути правильною, але я сподіваюся, що він помиляється

Подкастер про Bitcoin Пітер Маккормак пише про тезу про те, що біткойн повертається від інфляції, і про те, що потрібно, щоб залучити людей у ​​Bitcoin.

(Peter McCormack)

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Bitcoin Hovers Around $28K as Options Worth Billions of Dollars Expire

Bitcoin (BTC) is under pressure on Friday as options worth billions of dollars expired and some traders took bearish bets on the cryptocurrency's Ethereum-based wrapped version, WBTC. Bannockburn Global Forex Chief Market Strategist Marc Chandler shares his crypto markets analysis and the impact the ongoing banking crisis may have on the U.S. Federal Reserve's fight against inflation. "We know that banking crises, financial crises tend to be deflationary. What we don't know is the magnitude and the duration," Chandler said.

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Bitcoin Hovers Around $28K as PCE Rose 0.3% in February

Bitcoin is trading around $28,000 as the PCE price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, increased 0.3% in February. Bannockburn Global Forex Chief Market Strategist Marc Chandler weighs in on the state of inflation in the U.S. and how current macroeconomic conditions could impact the crypto market.

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Is Bitcoin a Hedge Against Inflation?

"I think what we're actually seeing now, for the first time, is a shift into that narrative of bitcoin being that inflation hedge," Innovating Capital General Partner Anthony Georgiades said. He shares his crypto markets analysis following the latest interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

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Чи підтверджує Rally біткойна тезу про «застрахування від інфляції» чи ризик знову в меню?

Два погляди на те, чому ціна біткоїна так сильно зросла цього місяця на тлі банківських набігів і невизначеності щодо того, чи підвищить Федеральна резервна система процентні ставки.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)