FOMC Showdown Looms: Whale Accumulation Signals Bitcoin Bet Against Powell’s Next Move

Smart money isn’t waiting for the Fed’s scripted drama. Institutional BTC buys surge ahead of Powell’s podium performance—because nothing says ’hedge against monetary theater’ like digital gold.

Wall Street’s playing chicken with the Fed... again. While pension funds still pretend to understand yield curves, crypto whales are loading up on hard assets. The ultimate inflation trade? A ledger that doesn’t care about CPI revisions.

This isn’t your 2018 ’crypto winter.’ The big players now treat BTC like a macro instrument—one that cuts through central bank smoke signals faster than a Satoshi whitepaper cuts through bank fees.

— The Bitcoin Historian (@pete_rizzo_) May 5, 2025

Meanwhile, things aren’t looking good for BTC’s price as we inch towards the May 7 FOMC.

This setup happened one week before Trump’s “liberation day.” The market dumped for four days straight before stabilizing on April 1, and then the big crash happened on April 2. We are one day away from the next FOMC meeting. This is the way the market anticipates terrible news, it rallies for no reason for one week and then everyone starts selling after the bad news.

99Bitcoin’s analysts would be genuinely impressed if we dump as hard or even harder than April 2 in this FOMC meeting, but something big is coming regardless.

Bitcoin’s Rally and Institutional Optimism

Semler’s timing isn’t random. Bitcoin’s recent upswing has been fueled by a surge in institutional demand and nearly $1.8 billion in ETF inflows last week. As macro conditions continue to lean in crypto’s favor, investor appetite is clearly shifting.

Glassnode reports show an 8% rise in active wallets and a 15% uptick in large-value transactions—classic signs of big players positioning ahead of the next move.

Preparing for A Market Crash

Semler Scientific’s Bitcoin spree fits a broader corporate shift toward crypto as a speculative lifeline in unpredictable markets. However, the FOMC’s next move, which will be to do nothing, will kill this rally outright.

If you zoom in, last week’s rally has evaporated. You also don’t seem to grasp that we are about to test previous lows, because we bounced off the 200 and 50-day MAs on this bad news.

BTC is about to drop harder than your brain bounces off the inside of your empty skull.  Just remember to say thank you next time!

Key Takeaways

• With the FOMC meeting this week, 99Bitcoins analysts predict that, once again, the Fed won’t do anything.
• We’re about to keep dumping, yet companies like Semler Scientific are going all-in. The medical device company picked up 167 BTC in early May.