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Bitcoin fell to $83,000 on Monday, down 1.7% since midnight UTC and 2.1% over 24 hours, as a selloff triggered by President Donald Trump's rejection of Iran's seven-day plan to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz pulled crude, yields and risk assets lower together. The CoinDesk 100 dropped 2.6% to 1,874.56, with 91 of its 100 constituents red on the day, while total crypto market capitalization slipped 1.7% to roughly $2.86 trillion. Brent crude climbed back above $100 to $100.83, up 3.2% on the day, reversing Friday's move below that level after Trump turned down Iranian conditions that included the release of frozen Iranian funds, the lifting of oil sanctions and an end to the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. Gold fell 3.3% to $4,145, silver dropped 5.1% to $61.00, the dollar index added 0.06% to 101.09, and U.S. equity futures were lower with S&P 500 contracts off 0.44% and Nasdaq 100 down 0.95%. The 10-year Treasury yield peaked at 5.274% on Monday, its highest since June 2007, and the 30-year reached 5.583%, a level last seen in 2002.

The move was almost a mirror image of Friday's rotation. Quant (QNT) fell 16% since midnight after rising 39% over 24 hours on Friday, indexing protocol token the graph (GRT) was down 12% having gained 14%, and tokenization token ondo (ONDO) was 12% lower at $0.5235. Sector indices that led the advance led the retreat, with the CoinDesk DeFi Select Index (DFX) down 6.4% over 24 hours and the CoinDesk Computing Index (CPUS) losing 5.0%. Ether (ETH) open interest fell to 12.85 million ETH, down from 13.95 million on July 1 and a late-May peak above 15.65 million, and futures open interest on Bitcoin dropped to 650K BTC, the lowest since March, as funding rates turned negative across major exchanges. The 24-hour taker long/short ratio stood at 46.9% to 53.1% at 09:50 UTC, with trading volume up 70% to $172 billion over 24 hours while open interest fell 3% to $150 billion, pointing to positions being closed rather than new ones opened.

Analysts read the pullback as consolidation rather than reversal. "The rise in crude prices is capping non-yielding assets, so Bitcoin's rally has taken a bit of a pause," said Kyle Rodda, senior financial market analyst at Capital.com, who expects Bitcoin to struggle for upside momentum while the energy risk persists. Thahbib Rahman, research analyst at Block Scholes, noted that Bitcoin has held between $82,000 and $84,000 for a week and a half despite the macro backdrop and the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act, with institutional demand behind that resilience. The 50-day moving average remains above the 200-day in a golden cross that has held since the September breakout, the Relative Strength Index reads 58.7, and trend strength measured by the Average Directional Index sits at 43.2. Adam, an analyst at the crypto options analysis platform Greeks.live, said the recent $BTC rise followed a pattern resembling a bear market recovery.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs have now taken in money for eight straight sessions, a run Rahman put at roughly $3 billion, with Monday's contribution a net $31.07 million including $54.84 million into BlackRock's IBIT and $10.32 million into Grayscale's mini trust offsetting outflows of $23.19 million from GBTC and $10.90 million from Fidelity's FBTC. The funds now hold $107.82 billion, equal to 6.42% of Bitcoin's market capitalization. Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy disclosed purchasing 1,665 BTC for about $142.7 million between September 21 and 27, taking its holdings to 847,666 BTC and past the 847,363 it held in June, a record. Options traders are hedging their optimism, with the 25-delta put-call skew for seven to 30-day tenors close to neutral as traders move between buying downside protection and positioning for a rally.

Brent has since eased below $104, down about 1.7% on the day after topping $108 on Monday, as US and Iranian officials continued indirect contacts through Qatar and Saudi Arabia restored roughly half the flows through its East-West pipeline, an alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index reads 70, comfortably in "greed" territory, while the Altcoin Season Index sits at 63, tilting toward alts but not fully there, and this week's U.S. data, including August core PCE on Wednesday alongside the third estimate of second-quarter GDP, will settle the Fed argument either way.