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On the last trading days of the year, the kind of chart that almost nobody outside finance ever looks at started yelling again. Banks piled into the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, borrowing a record $74.6 billion on Dec. 31 for 2025. Overnight funding rates popped, the benchmark SOFR briefly hit 3.77%, the general collateral repo […] The post Shock $74B emergency bank loan on NYE just revived the dark “COVID cover-up” secret bailout theory appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitwise crypto researcher André Dragosch said, “We’re staring at a similar macro setup” for Bitcoin as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin may have significant upside from here as its current price appears to be out of step with the forward macroeconomic outlook, according to a crypto researcher. “The last time I saw such an asymmetric risk-reward was during COVID,” Bitwise Europe head of research André Dragosch said in an X post on Friday, referring to March 2020 when global pandemic fears sent Bitcoin’s (BTC) price tumbling from around $8,000 to below $5,000. Dragosch said that while Bitcoin’s current setup mirrors the extreme risk-reward conditions seen during the COVID pandemic, it is also “pricing in the most bearish global growth outlook since 2022,” pointing to a period marked by aggressive quantitative tightening from the US Federal Reserve and the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Read more

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has just printed 10 out of 100, which is not typically seen during a bad week or a rough month, but only at huge stress moments, such as the March 2020 COVID crash, the post-FTX washout in late 2022, or the crash in February this year. At these levels, […] The post Bitcoin sentiment has hit rock bottom – as bad as COVID and FTX crashes appeared first on CryptoSlate.