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Bitcoin price in a post-ZIRP world
Coiners have been worried that the end of the free-money era would blunt bitcoin's next rally. The big picture: True, bitcoin is a risk asset, which tends to do better when interest rates are low, and poorer when rates are high — but ending there would oversimplify what factors are driving price of the world's oldest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has a limited history. It was born during the reign of zero interest rate policy, known as ZIRP, and doesn't have a long record of stacking cakes without it. Many folks are now keenly focused on things like inflation prints, to divine whether the U.S. is in position to cut ... (full story)