{"id":586015,"date":"2026-04-19T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bitcoin-price-drops-to-75k-as-new-hormuz-closure-puts-focus-on-oil\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:53:21","slug":"bitcoin-price-drops-to-75k-as-new-hormuz-closure-puts-focus-on-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bitcoin-price-drops-to-75k-as-new-hormuz-closure-puts-focus-on-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin price drops to $75K as new Hormuz closure puts focus on oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZGE1YTUtYzQ3Zi03MjI3LThlOWMtYTM2NmNhMGUxZGVlLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin price drops to $75K as new Hormuz closure puts focus on oil\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin foreshadows fresh market mayhem as it appears that the US-Iran war has returned, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz oil route.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\">BTC<\/a>) sought to protect $75,000 into Sunday\u2019s weekly close as crypto surfed fresh uncertainty over the US-Iran war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin price action sinks from ten-week highs amid fears that the US-Iran war has returned in full force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-price-drops-75k-new-hormuz-closure-focus-oil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin foreshadows fresh market mayhem as it appears that the US-Iran war has returned, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz oil route. Bitcoin (BTC) sought to protect $75,000 into Sunday\u2019s weekly close as crypto surfed fresh uncertainty over the US-Iran war. Key points: Bitcoin price action sinks from ten-week highs amid fears that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-586015","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\/586015","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=586015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}