Bitcoin just ripped 11% after the Fed quietly restarted a $38 billion money printer mechanism

Bitcoin reverted from Dec. 1 lows below $84,000 to break above $93,000 again.

A large golden Bitcoin coin glows on a city street as a malfunctioning money-printing machine explodes with $100 bills, illustrating Bitcoin’s 11% surge after the Federal Reserve quietly restarted a $38 billion liquidity mechanism.

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Bitcoin (BTC) jumped 11% from its Dec. 1 lows at $83,822.76 to over $93,000 overnight, driven by a convergence of macro and micro developments.

The Federal Reserve formally ended quantitative tightening (QT) on Dec. 1, coinciding with the New York Fed conducting approximately $25 billion in morning repo operations and another $13.5 billion overnight, the largest such injections since 2020.

The liquidity pump eased funding stress and propelled BTC higher as traders responded to the abrupt shift in monetary plumbing.

The combination of QT’s termination and direct liquidity provision typically supports high-beta assets by reducing borrowing costs and expanding the dollar supply in the financial system.

Rate-cut probabilities shifted back in Bitcoin’s favor after weak US manufacturing data reinforced the case for an economic slowdown.

The ISM manufacturing PMI printed at 48.2, marking a ninth consecutive month of contraction and pushing CME FedWatch odds for a 25 basis point cut at the Dec. 10 FOMC meeting into the high-80% range.

As a result of rising odds of a rate cut, risk assets stabilized following the Dec. 1 selloff, which traders attributed to speculation about the Bank of Japan tightening and shallow crypto liquidity.