Bitcoin faces rate-hike risk as inflation and risk-off pressure mount

Cointribune reports that US inflation surged, raising the possibility that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates in December. The outlet presents the prospective monetary tightening as a new risk for Bitcoin, while Brave New Coin adds that a fresh inflation reading is testing Waller’s rate-hike warning. The supplied coverage does not include the underlying inflation figure or details about the policy meeting, so the degree of certainty around a December increase remains central to the story. Crypto Daily describes Bitcoin’s decline as reaching a two-month low and says an Nvidia-related probe and stalled Iran talks contributed to the risk-off move. Its coverage attributes $1.14 billion in liquidated longs to the sell-off and identifies the 200-day average near $76,000 as a significant technical level. At the reported live price of $73,383, Bitcoin is trading below that cited average, while the market-data snapshot shows a 1.70% decline over 24 hours and a wider 5.33 fall over seven days. The outlets also introduce separate developments that may be affecting broader sentiment. Brave New Coin reports that MARA disclosed a $1.1 billion Bitcoin sale and notes that USDC is approaching an EU oversight milestone. That USDC detail comes only from Brave New Coin. Separately, DeFiLlama’s live data puts USDC’s circulating supply at $70.14 billion, compared with a quoted market capitalization of $69.86 billion. The broader crypto market is broadly lower, according to the live market snapshot, with total capitalization at $2.51 trillion. Bitcoin remains the dominant asset at $1.48 trillion in market capitalization, but its negative 24-hour and seven-day performance shows continued weakness. The Fear & Greed reading stands at 32, categorized as Fear. USDC is comparatively stable at $0.999583, up 0.01% over 24 hours and unchanged over seven days. Taken together, the coverage points to a combination of monetary-policy uncertainty and broader risk reduction rather than one confirmed catalyst. Attention is likely to remain on the next inflation evidence, the Fed’s December policy signal, Bitcoin’s relationship with the 200-day average near $76,000 and whether selling by large holders continues. These are the conditions reflected in the supplied data; they do not establish the direction of a future price move.