Bitcoin rises to $82,000 after Trump's message on Iran, day before crash anniversary

Rebound under surveillance. Bitcoin rallied towards $82,000 on Friday, after a low of $80,300, when Donald Trump promised that the United States would not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections.

The slide that began on Wednesday below $82,000 blew out $1.19 billion in leveraged positions on Thursday. Saturday October 10 falls on the anniversary of the 2025 crash.

Bitcoin at $82,000: What Trump Changed in One Post

Thursday at 12:17 p.m. (New York time), Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Washington would not attack Iran before the midterms. He called discussions with Tehran “productive,” while keeping the US blockade “in force,” reports CoinDesk.

American crude (WTI) had just climbed from 89 to 93.20 dollars per barrel. It fell back towards $90.70 following the message. The day before, Axios claimed that the Pentagon had asked central command (CENTCOM) to prepare to resume fighting in Iran.

Bitcoin hit a low of $80,300 before rebounding. Ether, XRP and Solana erased part of their losses in the same movement.

1.19 billion dollars liquidated, the day before a significant anniversary

A liquidation occurs when the price falls below the threshold that guarantees a loan: the platform closes the strong position, and this sale pushes the price even lower. On Thursday, according to CoinDesk, $1.19 billion in positions were closed in 24 hours, including more than a billion in bullish bets.

Positions on bitcoin represent 298 million dollars of this total, those on ether 356 million. Bitcoin slipped to $80,300 in a matter of hours.

By October 10, 2025, it had fallen from $122,000 to $105,000, most of the shock in less than an hour, days after a record high above $126,000. That day, $19 billion had been liquidated, sixteen times Thursday's balance sheet.

Bitcoin: 81,000, 80,300 then 77,200 dollars, the levels to follow

For Vikram Subburaj, boss of the Indian platform Giottus, $81,000 is the immediate threshold. He advises staggering purchases and avoiding high leverage until bitcoin has returned to $83,300 and then $85,500, with clearer entries into ETFs.

Below $81,000, he first sees $80,000, then on-chain support around $77,200. Purvang Mashru of BitDelta puts the risk threshold at $80,316 and judges that a sustained recovery to $82,000, with ether above $2,500, would stabilize the market.

That leaves researcher Justin Drake's “bunker mode”: moving his bitcoins to addresses whose public key has never been exposed, for fear of an AI capable of breaking the cryptography of the wallets. Coinbase's Yehuda Lindell talks about FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt). Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi calls the call "very sober."