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What to know:
- Bitcoin busted past the stubborn $73,000 ceiling and tiptoed up to about $74,484-the highest mark since the Persian Gulf trouble first stirred, even as President Trump hinted he might talk turkey with Tehran.
- That move rattled the cages of the market, setting off roughly $534 million in liquidations across eager traders, most of them shorts, as Ether and the big guns ran faster and every top-10 token wore a green grin for the day and week.
- While risk assets cheered and oil and yields eased, a crowd of traders eye a next hill near $79,000, even as geopolitics keep a weather eye on Hormuz and a looming cease-fire-like a hawk waiting for a rabbit to pop out.
The $73,000 wall that kept Bitcoin from the party three times in eight days has finally folded its arms and walked away.
Bitcoin jumped about 4.8% to $74,484 late Monday, the highest price since before the Iran trouble began in late February, as President Trump signaled a willingness to resume talks with Tehran even while the U.S. blocked the Strait of Hormuz.
The move kicked off about $534 million in crypto liquidations across 180,000 traders, with $430 million coming from shorts, marking the second big squeeze in less than a week.
Ether led the charge with a 7.7% jump to $2,366, now up 12.4% on the week and leaving Bitcoin in the dust. Solana’s SOL climbed 4.6% to $85.80, up 7.6% for the week. BNB rose to $615.80, up 3.3%. XRP inched to $1.36, and Dogecoin skittered up to $0.094. Every top-10 asset wore green on both daily and weekly charts.
The largest single liquidation was a $12.4 million BTC-USDT short on Aster. Bitcoin accounted for $229 million in total liquidations and ether followed at $136 million. Smaller token RAVE added $43 million in liquidations as prices surged 66%, and Solana contributed $12 million.
The S&P 500 has now erased all losses triggered by the Iran conflict, with the MSCI All Country World Index heading for its eighth consecutive day of gains, the longest winning streak since September.
Brent crude fell 1.3% to $98 as markets priced in the possibility that fresh talks could happen before the April 7 ceasefire expires next week. Treasury yields fell one basis point to 4.28% as cheaper oil eased inflation concerns.
The 12-hour liquidation window was where the damage concentrated, with $379 million wiped out in that period, of which $327 million were from shorts. The ratio of short to long liquidations at roughly 4-to-1 over 12 hours reflects just how heavily the market was still positioned for failure at $73,000, even after last week’s ceasefire bounce had already punished that trade once.
For bitcoin specifically, the break above $73,000 puts the next resistance at the Traders’ Realized Price near $79,000, the level that analysis firm CryptoQuant identified as the point where active traders who bought during the drawdown return to breakeven and tend to sell.
Between here and there, the path has less technical resistance than at any point since the war began.
The risk remains the same, however. Trump ordered the Hormuz blockade after weekend talks in Islamabad produced no deal. The ceasefire expires next week. But the U.S. and Iran are discussing another round of talks, and the blockade itself is being read by markets as a targeted pressure tool rather than an escalation, one designed to curb Iran’s oil revenues while paving the way for eventual shipping resumption.
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2026-04-14 08:08