{"id":77544,"date":"2026-03-24T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77544"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:31:35","slug":"bitcoin-crashed-20-after-every-bank-of-japan-rate-hike-and-another-one-may-be-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77544","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Crashed 20%+ After Every Bank Of Japan Rate Hike\u2014And Another One May Be Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Every Bank of Japan (BOJ) rate hike since 2024 has caused a <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) crash of at least 20%.<\/p>\n<p>With Japanese 10-year yields hitting a 27-year high if 2.32% on Monday, fears abound that another BOJ tightening cycle could trigger the next crypto selloff.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Four Rate Hikes That Crushed Bitcoin<\/h3>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536-1024x761.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1373224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536-1024x761.png 1024w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536-300x223.png 300w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536-768x571.png 768w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536-1536x1142.png 1536w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24113920\/image-536.png 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The BOJ raised rates four times since March 2024, and Bitcoin fell sharply after three of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 19, 2024, the BOJ raised rates from -0.1% to a 0-0.1% range, ending eight years of negative rates. Bitcoin fell roughly 23% in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The July 31, 2024 hike to 0.25% triggered the most violent episode. <\/p>\n<p>The yen appreciated from 160 to below 140 against the dollar, triggering a trillion-dollar global asset selloff. <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/%252Fbitcoin-crashed-20-after-every-bank-of-japan-rate-hike-and-another-one-may-be-coming?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" crashed after every bank of japan rate hike another one may be coming>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Bank of Japan (BOJ) rate hike since 2024 has caused a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) crash of at least 20%. With Japanese 10-year yields hitting a 27-year high if 2.32% on Monday, fears abound that another BOJ tightening cycle could trigger the next crypto selloff. The Four Rate Hikes That Crushed Bitcoin The BOJ raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}