{"id":16683,"date":"2025-12-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/revisiting-85000-bitcoin-price-drop-linked-to-japanese-government-bonds\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:00:17","slug":"revisiting-85000-bitcoin-price-drop-linked-to-japanese-government-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/revisiting-85000-bitcoin-price-drop-linked-to-japanese-government-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting $85,000: Bitcoin Price Drop Linked To Japanese Government Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief period of consolidation and a bullish uptick to around $93,000 at the end of last week, the Bitcoin price has once again dipped toward the $85,000 mark, recording a significant 7% drop on Monday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">data <\/a>from CoinGecko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Market expert Shanaka Anslem has pointed to what he refers to as &#8220;the weapon&#8221; behind this latest crash: Japanese government bonds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Expert Warns Of Unraveling Yen Carry Trade<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shanaka86\/status\/1995405750777335925?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post <\/a>on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the expert highlighted that the yield on Japan\u2019s 10-year bonds reached 1.877 percent on December 1, 2025\u2014the highest level since June 2008\u2014while the 2-year yield hit 1 percent, a benchmark not seen since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that these rising yields have triggered a significant unwinding of what Anslem describes as the largest arbitrage trade in history: the Yen Carry Trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With estimates placing the total size of this trade at around $3.4 trillion and figures nearing $20 trillion, he noted that this allowed global investors to borrow Japanese yen at minimal costs to buy a variety of assets, including stocks, US Treasuries, and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. However, this era appears to have ended last month.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanics of this situation are straightforward but impactful, Anslem asserted. As yields rise, the yen strengthens, making leveraged positions increasingly unprofitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that this leads to a chain reaction: selling triggers margin calls, which in turn causes further liquidations.\u00a0On October 10, $19 billion in crypto positions were liquidated, marking the largest single-day wipeout in crypto history. <\/p>\n<p>By November, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $3.45 billion exit the market, with BlackRock\u2019s IBIT suffering a $2.34 billion loss. On December 1 alone, an additional $646 million was liquidated before lunchtime.<\/p>\n<h2>Will The Bitcoin Price Plunge To $75,000?<\/h2>\n<p>This decline has occurred alongside the Bitcoin price correlations with major stock indices, showing a 46% correlation with the Nasdaq and a 42% correlation with the S&amp;P 500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anslem noted in his analysis that what was once perceived as an &#8220;uncorrelated hedge&#8221; has now transformed into a leveraged indicator of global liquidity conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, despite the Bitcoin price collapse, whale investors accumulated 375,000 BTC during this period. Moreover, miners significantly cut back their selling, reducing monthly sales from 23,000 BTC to just 3,672.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the market looks ahead, the expert asserted that a pivotal moment approaches on December 18 with the Bank of Japan\u2019s upcoming policy decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anslem concluded that if the bank opts to raise rates and signal further increases, the Bitcoin price could test the $75,000 level, which would represent an additional 11% drop for the market\u2019s leading cryptocurrency from current trading levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/Br6kV9yo\/\" alt=\"Bitcoin price\" width=\"1814\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Featured image from DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief period of consolidation and a bullish uptick to around $93,000 at the end of last week, the Bitcoin price has once again dipped toward the $85,000 mark, recording a significant 7% drop on Monday, according to data from CoinGecko.\u00a0 Market expert Shanaka Anslem has pointed to what he refers to as &#8220;the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,9,48,221,12,88,89,13,14,26],"class_list":["post-16683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-bitcoin-technical-analysis","tag-btc","tag-btc-news","tag-btc-price","tag-btcusdt","tag-crypto","tag-crypto-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsrise.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}