The BTC USD price weekend rally lasted just long enough to hurt. Bitcoin surged to a session high of $79,500 after Iran submitted a Hormuz ceasefire proposal, then surrendered every dollar of those gains within hours, sliding back to the $77,000 area as diplomatic optimism curdled.
BTC climbed from just under $78,000 to $79,490 in less than three hours after reports emerged that Iran had delivered a ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators. It is reported that Iran is offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a pause in the U.S. naval blockade.
MASSIVE: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Iran offers US deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, end the war, and postpone nuclear talks.
Trump is expected to hold a situation room meeting today.
Bitcoin hits $79,000 on the news. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/tr1zqP2erM
— Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) April 27, 2026
However, the reversal was swift. An hour after the local top, price collapsed to $77,500, erasing more than $30 billion from Bitcoin’s market cap and dragging it back to before the rally. Coinglass data put 12-hour volatility at 2.63%, with $124 million in short liquidations, and $167 million in longs, butchering both ways.
Bitcoin Liquidations, Coinglass
Adding fuel to the fire, Iran subsequently rejected a second round of U.S. peace talks, and President Trump canceled a planned envoy trip to Pakistan entirely. The crypto market shed an estimated $83 billion across the same stretch.
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Can BTC USD Price Reclaim $78,000?
Bitcoin is not doing that badly, with just 0.5% drops after all the swings today. However, it has repeatedly failed to hold the $79,000–$80,000 range across multiple attempts. The $74,000–$77,000 consolidation band that held through much of April has now broken to the upside, which is a meaningful shift in structure.
Key support sits at $75,000. That level has not been tested yet, but the current technical setup points toward it if sentiment deteriorates further. Resistance has reformed at $79,000 – $80,000 as we have seen today. The weekly MACD hints at residual bullish momentum, but only if price can sustain a breakout toward $80,000–$90,000.
Analyst Michaël van de Poppe has noted that a clean move above $84,000–$87,000 would signal the bear market is over; below that threshold, the jury stays out.
We can now hope for peace talks to resume, Hormuz reopens, risk appetite returns, so BTC can reclaim $78,000 and targets $84,000 and beyond.
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Spot Bitcoin is caught between geopolitical headline risk and genuine macro uncertainty. We are in an environment where holding BTC feels brave but not necessarily smart on a short-term basis. When the asset itself is whipsawing on ceasefire rumors, some investors look down the risk curve for asymmetric exposure to the same underlying thesis. \
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