Bitcoin shrugged off Japan’s rate hike – The bigger liquidity test came from Washington

The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of… The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of near-free money. Going into the decision, the track record pointed one way: every one of […] The post Bitcoin shrugged off Japan’s rate hike – The bigger liquidity test came from Washington appeared first on CryptoSlate.