Bitcoin broke under $81,000 to a near three-week low and then recovered toward $82,000, ending roughly where it started. The two days of statements bracketing that move came from the same source. On October 7, at a campaign event in San Antonio, Trump said he was "not wanting" a deal with Iran and "not very interested" in an agreement, while NBC reported his national security team was discussing resuming large-scale military action and Axios reported the options under consideration included massive bombings of Iranian energy, infrastructure and nuclear facilities. On October 8 he posted that the US "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections," citing "productive discussions." No agreement was announced, and productive discussions are not a deal. So the only thing that changed over those two days is that a threat introduced on Tuesday was withdrawn on Wednesday, which leaves conditions where they already stood before either statement. The round trip in price says the same thing. CoinDesk quotes Bitcoin at $82,504.19 at 1:39 a.m. EDT, down 0.21% on $18.84 billion of volume. The $83,000 support level has been lost, and failure to reclaim it puts $80,000 in reach. The Fear and Greed Index slipped to 59 from 64.