The intense volatility in the cryptocurrency markets continues as bitcoin just shot up to $67,000 after plunging to $63,000 this morning.<\/p>\n
The most likely reason for all the Saturday fluctuations is the quickly escalating situation in the Middle East, and the latest reports hinting at a regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n
It all started this morning when Israel and the USA carried out several attacks against Iran. The Middle East country retaliated against several nations in the region, including the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
In the following hours, more reports began to unravel, and the latest big development on the matter indicated that Iran\u2019s supreme leader had been killed<\/a>. So far, though, the information is coming only from Israeli sources and there\u2019s no official confirmation.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump also addressed the situation recently, warning that he could end it all in a matter of days and warned of further military actions if Iran doesn\u2019t scale back on its nuclear development.<\/p>\n BREAKING: President Trump is floating several \u201coff ramps\u201d for Iran just hours after the strikes launched by Israel and the US, per Axios.<\/p>\n Trump says:<\/p>\n 1. He can end the situation in \u201ctwo or three days\u201d<\/p>\n 2. This would involve threatening Iran with further military action if they\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/xQf5c7nmjb<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n Since the cryptocurrency market is the only financial industry operating during the weekend, it endured significant volatility as the events unfolded. After the initial strikes, bitcoin plunged<\/a> from $66,000 to $63,000 within minutes, and the altcoins followed suit.<\/p>\n However, it rebounded in the following hours and even jumped to $67,000 minutes ago after the reports about Khamenei\u2019s death.<\/p>\n <\/a>BTCUSD Feb 28. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n The post Bitcoin Price Jumps to $67K After Reports That Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Was Killed<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The intense volatility in the cryptocurrency markets continues as bitcoin just shot up to $67,000 after plunging to $63,000 this morning. The most likely reason for all the Saturday fluctuations is the quickly escalating situation in the Middle East, and the latest reports hinting at a regime change in Iran. It all started this morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":138782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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