I want to come back to something from yesterday's FOMC because I think the full significance of it hasn't fully landed yet in most of the commentary I've read.
Nine of 18 officials projected that the federal funds rate would end 2026 above its current range of 3.5% to 3.75%. Warsh confirmed he refrained from offering any projections of his own. The median projection now calls for the federal funds rate to end 2026 at 3.8%, up from 3.4% in the Fed's March summary. Bitcoin Foundation
Warsh is the first Fed chair in fourteen years to abstain from the dot plot. That single fact carries enormous consequences for how markets should think about every future meeting, not just this one.
Jerome Powell's Fed gave markets a roadmap. You could look at the dot plot, see where the median member expected rates to be in twelve months, and trade around it with meaningful confidence that the committee would try to follow through on those projections. The entire "Fed pivot trade" that dominated crypto bull cases for the past year was built on reading that roadmap and positioning ahead of the expected turns.
Warsh just told you there is no roadmap anymore. Warsh skipped forward guidance, which is in character. He has long been skeptical of telling markets where rates are headed, and he declined to submit his own projection. He did not need to. The dots that were submitted told the story. Substack
For $BTC #Bitcoin specifically, this structural change matters more than any single rate decision. The "Fed pivot unlocks Bitcoin" thesis requires the Fed to credibly signal a pivot in advance, so that institutional money can position ahead of it. Without forward guidance, there's no signal to front-run. The institutional catalyst that Bitcoin bulls were waiting on doesn't disappear — it just becomes structurally harder to time. That's not necessarily bearish on a multi-year basis, but it is a genuine change to the trading environment that I think deserves more attention than it's getting.
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DYOR. Not financial advice
