đ Bitcoin Bulls Roar as Trumpâs âBig Beautiful Billâ Smashes Through Senate Approval
Washington just handed crypto hodlers an early Christmas presentâwrapped in populist flair and signed with a Sharpie.
The Regulatory Dam Breaks
The Senate greenlit Trumpâs controversial crypto bill, sending BTC prices vertical within minutes. No more âshadowy super-coderâ rhetoricâthis legislation effectively mainstreams digital assets while letting politicians take credit for âtaming the Wild West.â
Wall Streetâs Cold Sweat Moment
Goldman analysts reportedly spilled their oat milk lattes scrambling to update custody solutions. Meanwhile, DeFi degens are already memeing the billâs loopholesâbecause nothing unites crypto like exploiting regulatory gray areas.
One hedge fund manager (who definitely didnât short BTC last week) grumbled: âThis legitimizes their casino.â To which we say: Welcome to the table, sir. The house always winsâbut now itâs a *regulated* house.
Why Bitcoin Bulls Can Still Rejoice
Still, macro-sensitive investors zeroed in on two provisions with clear implications for the sector: First, thereâs the reinstatement of 100 percent bonus depreciation. Firms may now expense the full cost of new hardware in year one rather than amortizing it. For a mining operator acquiring $10 million in ASIC rigs, the immediate write-off cuts the effective after-tax cost by roughly one-third, sharpening incentives to deploy capital quickly and pushing projected network hashrate higher.
Second, the permanent elimination of federal taxes on tips and overtime pay. While politically framed as middle-class relief, the provision amounts to an estimated $280 billion of disposable income over ten years, according to the Washington Post, potentially supporting risk-asset allocation at the retail margin.
Bitcoin initially slipped 1.4 percent to $105,800, retracing part of Tuesdayâs record monthly close NEAR $107,200 before stabilising just above $106,000.
The short-lived dip drew astonishment from long-time analyst Vijay Boyapati, who wrote on X, âBitcoin falling on the BBB passing the Senate is perhaps the most irrational market reaction since the bitcoin Covid crash to $3,000, just as the money printer went into overdrive in 2020.â
Other voices focused on fiscal risk: dVick called the bill âanother nail in the dollarâs coffin,â adding: âThe devaluation has been accellerated. If youâre not in Bitcoin, and donât get in soon, I expect those are decisions youâll soon regret.â
Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of Coinbase, added: âThe US is broke. The real debt is $175T+. And @elonmusk is 100% correct on the numbers. But the difficult step is the logical conclusion. There is no fix. Itâs a writeoff. A national bankruptcy. And the default will be in the FORM of money printing.â
For Bitcoin and crypto participants, the Senate vote is less an endpoint than a macro signal. Should the final package survive intact, the combination of fresh consumer cash, generous capital-investment write-offs and a potentially more accommodative Fed would replicate many of the monetary conditions that powered Bitcoinâs 2020-21 run. In Boyapatiâs words, âthe money printerâ may not be at full throttle yet, but the gears just started whirring.
At press time, BTC traded at $106,454.