Following the performance of the US stock market overnight, Bitcoin and many of the crypto market’s altcoins have dipped quite dramatically since this time yesterday, as the US Dollar Index gets a little boost. Meanwhile, frog memecoin PEPE keeps leaping higher. More on that in a sec. The broad prediction, though, was that this was going to be a volatile week ahead of and after the US Federal Reserve’s latest FOMC meeting, and things are going to script so far. The latest chapter in the US banking crisis – the collapse of First Republic Bank, and its sale from the US government to JPMorgan – is also muddying the ... (full story)