According to Ardern, investors had bought BTC put options, or bearish bets, in the lead-up to the CPI release, which means market makers sold puts and sold bitcoin in the spot/futures market to hedge against the risk of price slide. So, after prices began to rise post-CPI, market makers had to buy back the bitcoin sold.
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