{"id":582683,"date":"2026-04-13T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/oil-price-surges-8-on-iran-five-things-to-know-in-bitcoin-this-week\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:52:47","slug":"oil-price-surges-8-on-iran-five-things-to-know-in-bitcoin-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/oil-price-surges-8-on-iran-five-things-to-know-in-bitcoin-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price surges 8% on Iran: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDg1YzUtNjY2Yy03YTEyLWFmMGUtOTVhZWVlOGQyOTM2LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Oil price surges 8% on Iran: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin preserved $70,000 at the weekly close as markets began reacting to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\">BTC<\/a>) starts the third week of April on a knife edge as the US-Iran war makes a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown in US-Iran negotiations sends oil surging above $100 per barrel, with the Strait of Hormuz now blockaded.<\/p>\n<p>US PPI inflation data is due amid signs that the oil crisis is far from the only driver of price increases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/oil-price-surges-8percent-iran-five-things-bitcoin-this-week\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin preserved $70,000 at the weekly close as markets began reacting to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the third week of April on a knife edge as the US-Iran war makes a comeback. A breakdown in US-Iran negotiations sends oil surging above $100 per barrel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-582683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}