Bitcoin News
By Bruce Buterin
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Mortgage Rates Are Killing Demand. The average 30-year mortgage rate sat at 6.76% in August.
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What This Means for Bitcoin and Equities. Here's where it gets interesting for anyone watching crypto and stocks.
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The gap is massive. In August, sellers outnumbered buyers in the US housing market by 58% — the largest spread Redfin has ever recorded. That's 1.
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Home listings jumped 3.9% from July to August. Buyers? They barely moved — up just 0.1% over the same stretch. The Sun Belt is getting hit hardest.
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San Francisco is still a seller's market. Tight supply and spillover demand from the AI industry have kept it insulated — at least for now.
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The average 30-year mortgage rate sat at 6.76% in August. That's the blunt reason buyers are pulling back.
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And the price data backs that up — but only partly. Seller's markets still saw home values rise 5.5% year over year in August. Buyer's markets? Just 1.6%.
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The broader economic read here is murky. Sustained weakness in housing — not a crash, just a slow grind — can still do real damage. Construction slows.
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Here's where it gets interesting for anyone watching crypto and stocks. Higher mortgage rates don't stay in their lane.
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So the housing market's pain can travel. Fast.
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But there's a flip side. If the housing market stays weak long enough, it could actually push yields lower over time.
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The Federal Reserve's rate strategy is the thread running through all of this. Tightening was designed to crush inflation.
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More context: Zcash Outpays Bitcoin 4-to-1 Per Megawatt as Foundry Launches Dedicated Mining Pool
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The 58% surplus of sellers alone doesn't mean a crash is coming. Markets can stay imbalanced for a long time without breaking. But the direction of travel matters.
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