People keep talking about the CLARITY vote and the Fed rate hike, us included. Turns out, the former drew more Bitcoin discussion than the latter. 🏛️ Sep 15, 18:00–24:00 UTC: CLARITY Act vote failed 49–50. BTC social volume hit 890, the highest evening window in two weeks. 📊 Sep 16, same window: the Fed raised rates 25bp to 3.75–4.00%, its first hike since July 2023. BTC social volume: 691. 🔀 Baseline across the eleven non-event evenings is 525. The vote ran 1.7x it. The hike ran 1.3x. 📉 Sentiment split the other way: +26.9 in the vote window against +52.4 in the hike window, with BTC down ~1.7% across the first and up ~0.7% across the second. Washington drew the crowd. The Fed drew the mood. 🔗 Explore BTC social volume in Sanbase: https://app.santiment.net/charts/sentiment-balance-30047?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=clarityfed_0926&aff=33