European Central Bank Cuts Rates; Bitcoin Bulls Roar, Expect Price Increase 13

European Central Bank Cuts Rates; Bitcoin Bulls Roar, Expect Price Increase

Central Banks Continue to Print, Print, Print

According to its proponents, the value proposition of Bitcoin (BTC) was dramatically accentuated on Thursday, when central bankers continued their march towards debasement and uncharted monetary territory.

For those that aren’t aware, the European Union’s central bank, the aptly-named European Central Bank (ECB) revealed that it would be cutting interest rates yet again while also launching an open-ended capital injection protocol.

According to a report from CNN, the monetary body overseeing the Euro cut its interest rate for deposits by 10 BPS (0.1%) to -0.5%. Simultaneously, the central bank revealed that it would be starting another round of quantitative easing (QE), promising to purchase some 20 billion Euros (around $22 billion) worth of bonds and “other financial assets” (not Bitcoin, that’s for sure) every month in hopes that the economy will remain stimulated.

This monetary policy comes in the wake of President Trump calling for the Federal Reserve to “get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less”. What’s crazy is that Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the American monetary authority, has argued that it won’t be long before rates go negative in the U.S.

The market is currently pricing in a 100% chance of a rate cut for September’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Commitee (FOMC), a branch of the Fed that deals with interest rate decisions. That’s not al, Federal Funds futures are expecting rate cuts to occur well into 2020, potentially even until September 2020’s meeting.

Bullish for Bitcoin

While Bitcoin has abstracted itself from the fiat economy, analysts say that these decisions by central banks to inject liquidity into the economy will only be a boon for cryptocurrencies in the years to come.

Travis Kling, a former portfolio manager at a leading Wall Street fund that dived down the “Bitcoin rabbithole”, wrote that the aforementioned policies are a bid” amongst central bankers to devalue their currencies ASAP”

He writes that with the “entire world racing” to see who can devalue their fiat currency the fastest, assets with “PROVABLE SCARCITY” should begin to shine. By this, he is obviously referring to something like Bitcoin. As Kling said at a recent event:

“Bitcoin is currently a risk asset. But it’s a risk asset with a specific set of investment characteristics that will only become more attractive the more irresponsible monetary and fiscal policy becomes.”

Tom Lee of Fundstrat has echoed this analysis, saying in a recent interview:

“Bitcoin’s becoming increasingly a macrohedge for investors against things that could go wrong. Rate cuts are adding liquidity. Liquidity is pushing money into all these risk assets and also hedges, which is helping Bitcoin.”

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