{"id":74964,"date":"2026-03-04T21:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74964"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:46:34","slug":"bitcoin-tops-73000-despite-iran-airstrike-campaign-is-this-rally-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74964","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Tops $73,000 Despite Iran Airstrike Campaign: Is This Rally Sustainable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) surged past $73,000 on Tuesday as $320 million in short positions were liquidated across exchanges, according to CoinGlass data. <\/p>\n<p>The squeeze caught late sellers off guard after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/03\/51006604\/why-exxon-chevron-need-to-watch-irans-vow-to-set-fire-to-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz\">killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28<\/a> and sent oil spiking.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arthur Hayes\u2019 Bull Case<\/h2>\n<p>Hayes laid out his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/50957917\/arthur-hayes-says-longer-trump-lingers-in-iran-higher-the-chances-of-bitcoin-surging-heres-why\">thesis<\/a> in a March 1 essay titled \u201ciOS Warfare.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Every major U.S. military engagement in the Middle East since 1985 was followed by Fed rate cuts or monetary expansion, he argued. <\/p>\n<p>His conclusion: prolonged Iranian nation-building equals more printing, which equals higher BTC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/us-x-iran-ceasefire-by\">Polymarket\u2019s ceasefire contract<\/a>, with $11.1 million in volume, prices a U.S.-Iran ceasefire by May 31 at 66% and by June 30 at 70%. The longer the conflict drags on without resolution, the more Hayes\u2019 thesis could gain traction.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $70,000 Battle Zone<\/h2>\n<p>Crypto analyst <strong>Benjamin Cowen<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50945901\/bitcoins-march-target-is-74000-but-that-could-be-a-bull-trap-analyst-warns\">projects<\/a> a potential March target around &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51052577\/bitcoin-tops-73000-despite-iran-airstrike-campaign-is-this-rally-sustainable?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" tops despite iran airstrike campaign: is this rally sustainable>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) surged past $73,000 on Tuesday as $320 million in short positions were liquidated across exchanges, according to CoinGlass data. The squeeze caught late sellers off guard after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28 and sent oil spiking. Arthur Hayes\u2019 Bull Case Hayes laid out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-74964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}