{"id":62857,"date":"2026-03-09T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/bitcoin-drops-2-as-oil-prices-surge-on-energy-shortage-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:17:06","slug":"bitcoin-drops-2-as-oil-prices-surge-on-energy-shortage-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/bitcoin-drops-2-as-oil-prices-surge-on-energy-shortage-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin drops 2% as oil prices surge on energy shortage fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"html-renderer-container\">\n<p>Bitcoin fell nearly 2% in just 15 minutes on Sunday while oil prices rose almost 20% as the escalating Middle East conflict prompted fears of a major supply shortage in the global energy market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.hyperliquid.xyz\/trade\/flx:OIL\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Data<\/a> from decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid shows oil prices rose from $95 to $113.7 per barrel shortly after US futures markets opened, as Iraq warned that roughly 3 million barrels per day of production could be disrupted due to Iranian threats against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">It\u2019s the highest price oil has reached since April 2022, a few weeks after Russia commenced its invasion of Ukraine, TradingView <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NYMEX-CL1!\/?timeframe=1M\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a> shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The price of oil rose more than 30% last week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-drops-63k-us-israel-bomb-iran\">US and Israel struck Iran,<\/a> leading the war-torn nation to counterstrike against several of its <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/iran-crypto-outflows-rose-after-us-israel-attack\">Middle Eastern<\/a> neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (<a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) fell from $66,960 to $65,725 by 10:30 pm UTC on Sunday as US futures markets opened before bouncing back up to $66,272 at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperliquid data also shows that oil prices have cooled off to $105 per barrel.<\/p>\n<figure>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-03\/019ccfc3-6b81-7cf3-abe5-646b35eaf23d.png\" title><figcaption><em>Change in oil price since Wednesday. Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.hyperliquid.xyz\/trade\/flx:OIL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/app.hyperliquid.xyz\/trade\/flx:OIL\"><em>Hyperliquid<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Bitcoin climbed during the Middle Eastern conflict last week, which saw the death of Iranian Supreme Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-recovers-to-68k-following-reported-death-of-iranian-supreme-leader\">Ayatollah Khamenei,<\/a> rising from below $64,000 to $73,770 by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">But since then, Bitcoin\u2019s price has fallen over the last four consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p><template data-ct-widget=\"buzzsprout\" data-buzzsprout-podcast-id=\"2040516\" data-buzzsprout-episode-id=\"18518100\"><\/template><\/p>\n<h2>Trump not worried about oil prices<\/h2>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Despite the boom in oil prices, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Neaqlxt8XiU\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">expects<\/a> the rapid rise in oil prices to be short-lived:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">\u201cWe figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They&#8217;ll also come down. They&#8217;ll come down very fast,\u201d Trump told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\"><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/iran-crypto-outflows-rose-after-us-israel-attack\"><em><strong>Iranian crypto outflows spike 700% after US-Israeli airstrikes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Trump also shrugged off the idea that the US may need to tap its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, stating:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of oil. Our country has a tremendous amount,\u201d said Trump. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of oil out there. That\u2019ll get healed very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magazine: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-magazine.com\/south-korea-gets-rich-from-crypto-north-korea-gets-weapons\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>South Korea gets rich from crypto\u2026 North Korea gets weapons<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\" label=\"Subscription Form: Markets Outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p>Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph\u2019s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently. Read our Editorial Policy <a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/editorial-policy\">https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/editorial-policy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin fell nearly 2% in just 15 minutes on Sunday while oil prices rose almost 20% as the escalating Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tien-dien-tu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}