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Bitcoin rose 0.4% to just above $83,700 in Thursday's Asian morning, having reached $85,500 on Wednesday after a softer-than-expected US inflation report.The gains drained away as Treasury yields stayed near their highest levels since 2002.HYPE led the majors, up 3% to about $89, and Dogecoin gained nearly 2% to just under 10 cents. Ether, BNB, Tron and Zcash each added less than 1%, XRP was flat at $1.50, and Solana slipped nearly 1% to just under $119.The Inflation Print Did Its Job. The Bond Market Did Not Respond.August PCE showed prices up 3.4% from a year earlier and 3.0% excluding food and energy."That has reduced the odds of another Federal Reserve rate increase in October and made December look like the more likely next move," said Dan Khus, chief analyst at LVRG Research."Crypto markets took that as a relief signal, and bitcoin jumped back above $85,000 as bond yields slipped and investors became more willing to buy risk assets again."The yield relief did not last. The 10-year traded around 5.28%, close to Wednesday's peak, and the 30-year steadied at 5.62% after reaching its highest since 2002 during New York trading.Oil declining helped pause the bond selloff, and the dollar strengthened.This Is the Scenario 10x Research DescribedThe session is a direct test of a distinction Markus Thielen drew on Tuesday."When yields rise because the Fed is tightening, bitcoin suffers. When yields rise on fiscal and term-premium concerns, the picture flips," the 10x Research founder said, forecasting the 10-year reaching 6%.Wednesday removed part of the tightening argument. October hike odds had already fallen from about 71% to 50% after New York Fed President John Williams downplayed the urgency of raising rates, and a cooler PCE print pushed the expected next move to December.Long yields did not fall with it. That is the fiscal and term-premium component Thielen identified, and it is the part a softer inflation reading does not address. Thielen's argument rests on yields sitting below both nominal GDP growth of 6.56% and federal debt growth of roughly 8.5% annually since 2020.The Gap Between Headline and Core MattersHeadline PCE at 3.4% against core at 3.0% means food and energy added 40 basis points rather than subtracting.That is the opposite of the usual pattern when energy prices fall, and it reflects the oil move that ran through August and September. Brent rose about 14% in September before retreating to $96.43.If energy continues easing, headline converges toward core. If it reverses again, the headline figure the Fed watches alongside core moves the wrong way regardless of what underlying prices do.Micron Lifted AsiaTechnology carried the risk mood into the Asian session.Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.8% and S&P 500 futures rose 0.4%. Japan's Nikkei jumped 2.7% and South Korea's Kospi rose 1.2% after Micron Technology's upbeat forecast lifted chip stocks.Micron guided first quarter revenue to $60-63 billion against $56.77 billion expected, alongside a fourth quarter beat on revenue, EPS and cloud memory.The Kospi move is the notable one. It had fallen 19.3% across the third quarter, its steepest since the first quarter of 2020, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix down more than 5% on Monday alone. Micron's guidance applies to the DRAM market all three compete in.Alphabet gained 1.5% in extended trading as Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship AI model.What Would Give the Next Rally RoomA soft inflation print on its own was not enough to hold Bitcoin above $85,000 with the 10-year near 5.3%.A sustained drop in that yield is the move that would change it.The rally also lacks confirmation from flow data. CryptoQuant estimated Bitcoin's spot demand shrank by about 170,000 BTC over the 30 days to Tuesday, deteriorating from −145,000 BTC on September 11 while price rose. Futures open interest fell to 625,000 BTC on Wednesday, the lowest since January 1.Bitcoin remains roughly 12% above the $74,887 low struck on September 15 and 4% below its September 21 high of $87,300.Friday's non-farm payrolls report is the next release, with Kalshi pricing nearly 60% odds of a figure above 90,000 against Goldman Sachs at 80,000 and Bank of America at 60,000. ADP reported private payrolls rising 90,000 on Wednesday.