🇯🇵 Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to hike rates on December 19th, with further hikes anticipated in 2026.
History Appears to Be Repeating The last time Japan raised rates, Bitcoin and the entire crypto market saw a hard dump.
This was not retail panic.
This was a big players' sell-off:
• Wintermute → 9,315 $BTC
• Coinbase → 8,375 $BTC
• BitMEX → 7,993 $BTC
• Binance → 5,460 $BTC
• Bitwise → 5,010 $BTC
• Bitfinex → 3,750 $BTC
Direct Logic: when the BOJ tightens - global liquidity decreases - risk assets $BTC #crypto #stocks come under pressure.
