With the current conflict in the Middle East, many passionate investors have turned to investing in crude oil, hoping for a wave due to the Hormuz Strait on the edge of the closure. However, 30 minutes of negotiation, oil prices have only increased by 3%.
More than 20% of the world’s oil crosses the Strait of Hormuz, and if it is actually closed at any time, oil prices would probably increase. Many investors are considering $ 100 per barrel, a level that has not been seen since July 2022.
Twenty-five years ago, if Iran had threatened to close the Hormuz Strait, the price of crude oil would have increased by 50%. Nobody cares today. Different world. #Crudoil pic.twitter.com/trdvqndnzo
– Dave Reiter (@tradesbydave) June 22, 2025
Slow oil prices to react to the current conflict in the Middle East
While many expected the oil prices to increase at 6 p.m. he, at only 30 minutes of negotiation, oil was up 3%, after strikes from the US army on Iranian nuclear installations on Sunday.
This type of attack, associated with the continuous threat that the Hormuz Strait will close at any time, has led many investors to buy crude oil shares in anticipation of a huge upward decision.
However, at 6:27 p.m. on June 22, Brent Brude was exchanging $ 79.45 per barrel from $ 79.45, while the US Crude, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), $ 3.18 at $ 76.19 per barrel at the start of the New York negotiation session.
Previous incidents of this level triggered much greater movements on the raw markets. Some examples include when Iran -related activists struck the installation of Abqaiq from Aramco in September 2019, which temporarily stopped 5% of world oil production, Brent Futures increased by almost 20% in a single day, marking the biggest price of a day in history.
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Another event of this type came following the strike of American drones against the Iranian military officer Qassem Soleimani at the beginning of 2020, the prices increased by around 4% in the midst of regional reprisals. Today’s lukewarm response also highlights the quantity of markets more isolated from geopolitical events.
The coordinated American air strikes hit Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan overnight, inflicting visible damage to enrichment and research infrastructure. Tehran has promised reprisals, but the energy markets bet that climbing remains limited.
President Trump had announced that the three nuclear sites had been completely destroyed; However, he has since been released that Fordow has not been destroyed, and the Iranians may have even moved the uranium deposits before the attack.
No significant decision of oil prices will probably only arise when the Iranians decide the Hormuz Strait. If they decide to disrupt or close the Strait, barrels of crude oil could run around $ 100, a price not seen since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
The oil that does not doping as many believed that Bitcoin recovers $ 100,000 – BTC is the hedge of the Second World War?
(Coingecko)
Yesterday, Bitcoin fell at $ 98,500, which led a lot to believe that a slide around 80,000 to $ 85,000 arrived. However, less than two hours later, BTC quickly recovered $ 100,000 and is now negotiated at $ 101,900.
This continuous force of Bitcoin, compared to the prices of oil which did not react reasonably, because the market players had assumed that they would do so, made the main digital active as an essential investment during this period of conflict in the Middle East.
Previously, Iran and Israel with large conflicts against each other, with the additional warning that the United States being involved, would have acted as a black Swan event in crypto, and Bitcoin would have crushed, dragging the rest of the market with it.
However, BTC’s refusal to settle below $ 100,000 is incredibly optimistic, which is also supported by the continuation of the net entries of BlackRock in Son Etf Bitcoin. Other asset managers, such as Fidelity, have also experienced healthy entries in their own BTC ETF.
Another signal that Bitcoin is the main active investment at the moment is the continuous rise in power of the domination of the BTC (BTC.D), which measures its share of the total market capitalization of cryptography. As most Altcoins continue to bleed and Bitcoin is stable, BTC.D increased from 64.8% to 65.8% in the last three days.
(TradingView)
Although the rise of BTC.D highlights the weakness of altcoins at the moment, it also demonstrates the strength of Bitcoin and its new status as a hedge on waiting war.
All eyes will now be on the US commercial markets today and any new announcement by President Trump in terms of the United States concerning the Israeli / Iranian conflict.
There is the optimism that the conflict could end at its end after no informed missile attack of Iran overnight and in Israel, declaring that they do not wish to be trained in a war of attrition.
All news of a ceasefire or a pure and simple end to this bloody conflict in the Middle East will probably see an enormous increase in the cryptography market, which could catapulize bitcoin at fresh peaks, finally transforming the level of $ 110,000 into support before starting the long-awaited race around $ 150,000.
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