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In theory all the discussion about the US debt ceiling should be supportive for crypto, but at the moment we do not see much in terms of price increase. My take is that with higher yields and economic woes, people are still pulling money from DeFi and not all of it is reinvested in inflation resistant coins like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash and the likes. Lets see in the next days and weeks if things change.

So I think Jump Crypto and Jane Street are partly responsible for the sell off in many crypto assets in the past weeks. They were (shady) market makers in many assets out there and had to stop their business. I suspect they had to sell of many of their positions.

Meanwhile our largest position Litecoin is outperforming because in less than three months there is the miner reward "halvening" from 12.5 to 6.25 LTC per block. Usually this is a very supportive event for Coins

Let's hope for some positive price action, now that FED and ECB have stopped hiking rates. They still say they want to go higher, but in my view they are done. FED has already implemented some form of QE because they buy government bonds at 100% from banks, no matter how low they are trading. A lot of positive things are happening, but Crypto Twitter is full of negative posts. Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin today so maybe most of the stakers that wanted to withdraw and sell are done now and on a net basis money is flowing back into the system.

Bad price development over the past days. Not sure what the reason is. Gary Genslers testimony last week? It didn't contain any news, just maybe disappointing to see the US not act in a crypto friendly way. Market on the other hand could have celebrated the EUs MICA regulation which came to life also last week and is good for institutional adoption. Sometimes we simply cannot explain all the moves...

Bitcoin is regaining 30k USD and altcoins are only slowly gaining some strength. I hope that with Bitcoin trading above 30k people will start looking at alternatives again and then an altcoin rally should start.