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Crypto Market News: Bitcoin Slips to $74,200 as Traders Brace for a Fed Hike and Smart Money Backs Pepeto

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Crypto traders spent November 10 preparing for a Federal Reserve rate increase in December. Fed official Christopher Waller said a higher rate makes sense even if October inflation cooled, and the odds of a hike jumped to 96.3% from 76.3%.

Bitcoin fell 1.4% as traders cut risk before the inflation report. Whether the hike is already in the price is what this week’s crypto market news has to settle.

Below those headlines, Pepeto, a presale developing a scam scanner, an exchange and a bridge, has raised more than $11.3 million as the Fed debate pulls money out of Bitcoin.

Crypto Market News: Fed Hike Odds Hit 96% After Waller Remarks

The Fed now looks set to raise rates by 25 basis points on December 9, which would lift its range to 4.00% to 4.25%. Waller added that a hotter October reading could justify 50 basis points. Bitcoin trades at $74,167, 8% below its seven day high of $81,004.

The selling has stayed orderly because the market saw it coming. Forecasts put October inflation at 0.3% for headline prices and 0.2% for core, and gold fell just over 1% to below $4,100 alongside crypto. So the pressure is landing on gold as well as Bitcoin, the assets that pay no interest.

However, Bitcoin’s size limits how fast it can recover. At $1.49 trillion, a return to the $81,004 weekly high is a 9% climb that needs about $135 billion in fresh buying, and $1,000 gets the same 9% as $1 million.

This leaves crypto market news waiting on large funds to return to Bitcoin after December 9. Some large buyers have stopped waiting, and their money already sits inside Pepeto’s presale.

Smart Money Backs Pepeto’s Scam Scanner Before the Fed Decides

Large buyers chose Pepeto, a meme coin sold in presale with trading tools in the works, because its scanner removes the costliest risk in crypto, a token that can be bought but never sold. The team says plainly that the tools are in development, and it lets community members and big investors test them privately.

The scanner runs 42 detectors on a token’s contract and simulates a buy and a sell on a forked chain before any money moves. It returns a score from 0 to 100, and trades with critical risk are blocked. A honeypot token scores 6, so the trader sees the trap as a number and keeps the money the scam would have taken.

Staking pays 160% APY at a daily rate while the Fed argues over a quarter point, and locked plans keep the rate they start with. SolidProof has audited the code and the team has passed KYC, with a former Binance expert among the developers ahead of the Binance listing the market expects.

The token sells at $0.0000001906 in the current stage, with a higher price at each new stage. A trader saved from one honeypot comes back to the platform, and every return trip runs on a token capped at 420 trillion units.

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Conclusion

The Fed raised rates on December 16, 2015, for the first time since 2006, with Bitcoin near $451. Bitcoin had no ETF or futures market then, and it still reached about $20,000 in December 2017, turning $1,000 into roughly $44,000 for the buyers who held.

This week’s crypto market news turns on one Fed meeting and a 9% recovery for Bitcoin. Pepeto meets the same news with the low entry Bitcoin offered in 2015, plus tools built around its token.

Large buyers settled the question of holding through a rate hike by committing more than $11.3 million. Bitcoin made its 2015 holders rich with no products around it, and Pepeto’s token has three in development, each one giving another group of traders a reason to buy it.

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