Bitcoin, ether steady, gold slides as US-Iran tensions escalate again

Bitcoin is trading resiliently above $62,000 despite renewed US-Iran tensions, while traditional safe havens are behaving differently: gold is falling for a fourth straight day and oil is rising for a third session. The article argues that markets are increasingly treating geopolitical shocks as an interest-rate story rather than a pure risk-off event, with bitcoin now reacting more to Treasury yields and Fed repricing than to crude or gold. Bitcoin is up 1.6% on the week, ether is up 5.7%, while solana and XRP are weaker. Traders are watching $60,000 as the key support level; if bitcoin holds that area through further escalation, it could reinforce a rotation away from gold and toward bitcoin as a rates-sensitive asset. A break below $60,000 would suggest the recent muted reaction is temporary rather than structural.