{"id":644542,"date":"2026-08-17T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=840160"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:30:07","slug":"crypto-stocks-break-free-as-wall-street-buckles-under-iran-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/crypto-stocks-break-free-as-wall-street-buckles-under-iran-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Stocks Break Free as Wall Street Buckles Under Iran Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/crypto-stocks-break-free-as-wall-street-buckles-under-iran-risk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Iran and American flags.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>U.S. crypto-linked stocks broke from a broader Wall Street sell-off Monday as bitcoin held above $64,000 while mounting tensions over Iran, Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz rattled traditional markets. Near midday Aug. 17, the Nasdaq Composite was down about 56 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had shed roughly 189 points and the S&#038;P [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. crypto-linked stocks broke from a broader Wall Street sell-off Monday as bitcoin held above $64,000 while mounting tensions over Iran, Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz rattled traditional markets. Near midday Aug. 17, the Nasdaq Composite was down about 56 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had shed roughly 189 points and the S&#038;P [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644542","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=644542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}