{"id":78814,"date":"2026-04-02T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78814"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:16:33","slug":"bitcoin-plunges-3-after-trump-signals-more-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78814","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Plunges 3% After Trump Signals More Iran Strikes"},"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>) is down 3%, sinking below $67,000 after President Trump\u2019s Iran war address signaled further escalation over the next two to three weeks, pushing crude oil above $104 per barrel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump Doubles Down<\/h3>\n<p>Markets climbed hours before Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-address-nation-iran-live-updates.html\">speech<\/a>, pricing in hopes for de-escalation and resumed oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Trump said the U.S. would \u201chit\u201d Iran \u201cextremely hard\u201d over the next two to three weeks as military objectives near completion.<\/p>\n<p>Trump warned of additional strikes on Iranian electric infrastructure if no deal is reached.<\/p>\n<p>He offered no concrete timeline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, leaving that task to Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil surged more than 5% to above $104 per barrel on fears of prolonged supply disruptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Iran &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51628863\/bitcoin-plunges-3-after-trump-signals-more-iran-strikes?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" plunges after trump signals more iran strikes>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is down 3%, sinking below $67,000 after President Trump\u2019s Iran war address signaled further escalation over the next two to three weeks, pushing crude oil above $104 per barrel on Thursday. Trump Doubles Down Markets climbed hours before Trump\u2019s speech, pricing in hopes for de-escalation and resumed oil supplies through the Strait [&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-78814","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\/78814","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=78814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}