While Yellen was busy doing her thing, an opportunistic bitcoin fan took it upon himself to hold up a “buy bitcoin” sign.
Of course, that wasn’t the Fed chair’s message. She was more focused on interest rates. Nor was it a photoshopped internet hoax perpetrated by some crypto junkie aiming for a viral Reddit hit.
Desperate times call for desperate measures?
Bitcoin BTCUSD, +2.43% has been getting obliterated lately. Actually, the entire crypto market has been crushed over the past month.
Still, bitcoin is in the midst of a remarkable bull market, as you can clearly see by this chart of the past year: