Iran Denies Trump’s Hormuz Deal, Oil Jumps but Bitcoin Watches

BeInCrypto2026/08/02 13:36

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Iran has denied President Donald Trumps claim that a deal exists to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the worlds busiest oil route. Oil jumped on the denial. Bitcoin (BTC) barely moved. That gap says a lot about what crypto traders now choose to ignore. WTI Crude Oil and Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: TradingView Trump Says a Hormuz Deal Exists. Iran Says It Does Not Trump posted on Truth Social early Sunday. He said he had canceled a planned strike on Iran. He wrote that Iran and its neighbors asked him to hold off. The reason, he said, was that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. That deal would open the Strait of Hormuz right away. It would also end Irans nuclear threat. Iran answered within hours. Fars News Agency quoted a source close to the nuclear talks. There is no agreement regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the news published about it is false, Fars News Agency, via CGTN. Irans acting defense minister, Seyyed Majid Ibn Al-Reza, called Trumps words psychological warfare. Fars International called Trumps terms a wish list. None of this is new. An earlier pause in strikes in late July also went nowhere. Talks did happen, though. Qatari mediators met Irans foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, and US envoy Steve Witkoff on Saturday. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged Trump to cool things down. Why Oil Jumped and Bitcoin Did Not Start with the map. The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow sea lane between Iran and Oman. About 20 million barrels of oil passed through it every day in 2024, EIA data shows. That is roughly a fifth of the oil the world uses. Oil Traffic In the Strait of Hormuz. Source: EIA Here is the problem. Only about 2.6 million barrels a day can go around it, through pipelines in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The rest has nowhere else to go. That is why one denial can move a market this big. WTI crude, the US benchmark, closed at $84.67 on Friday. It then rose about 2.4% to trade near $86.79. Oil Price Performance. Source: TradingView The denial also puts an official forecast in doubt. On July 7, the EIA cut its Brent crude forecast for this quarter by $27 a barrel, to $74. It cited the June US-Iran deal and busier traffic through the strait. That June deal has since fallen apart. Analysts tracking Hormuz reopening timelines now expect the route to stay restricted into 2027. Bitcoin did almost nothing. It added 0.08% in 24 hours and sat near $63,063. Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto It also trades about 50% below its record of $126,080, set on October 6, 2025. The muted Bitcoin price reaction suggests traders now ignore headlines that change nothing on the water. What Happens Next Oil matters to crypto for one reason. It feeds inflation. June proved the link. US energy prices fell 5.7% that month, the steepest drop since April 2020. The BLS said energy did most of the work. Headline prices fell 0.4% over the month. Annual inflation cooled to 3.5% from 4.2%. Energy is still expensive over a full year, however. Gasoline is up 26.7%. So a lasting jump in oil would undo that progress. That makes Federal Reserve rate cuts harder to justify. Rate cuts are what assets like Bitcoin want. The next check comes August 12, when the BLS publishes July inflation. Until ships can sail through Hormuz freely, oil keeps its war premium. Bitcoin keeps waiting. Read the article at BeInCrypto

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