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Bitcoin holds at $78,623 as Iran strikes lift oil and pressure equities

9/1/2026

$78,623 is where Bitcoin ($BTC) settled Monday on CoinGecko, off 0.7% over 24 hours and above an intraday floor of $77,162, a $1,461 trading range that looks orderly against the rest of the session's damage.

military strikes on Iran drove crude sharply higher and pushed major equity indexes into the red, the first such U.S.-Iran exchange since late July.

Cross-asset snapshot, Monday session (reported): | Asset | Level | Change | |---|---|---| | Bitcoin ($BTC) | $78,623 | -0.7% | | WTI crude | $85.60/bbl | +2.6% | | S&P 500 | 7,673 | -0.5% | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,289 | -0.4% | | Gold | $4,440 | lower | | Ethereum | $2,448 | lower | The equity and commodity moves trace to two compounding pressures.

Geopolitically, the weekend strikes revived fears over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.