{"id":5016,"date":"2025-10-10T22:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:16:36","slug":"bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Crashes to $108,000 As Trump To Impose 100% Tariffs on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china\">Bitcoin Price Crashes to $108,000 As Trump To Impose 100% Tariffs on China<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Bitcoin price dropped to the $108,000 range today as escalating U.S.-China trade tensions and tariff talks sent shockwaves through global markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115351840469973590\" class=\"broken_link\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social today that China has announced \u201caggressive\u201d and \u201cunprecedented\u201d export controls on nearly all products, affecting all countries starting November 1, 2025. In response, Trump said the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on Chinese goods and enforce export controls on critical software from the same date.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin price dumped as a result of the news, dumping from roughly $117,000 in early afternoon to below $108,000. At the time of writing, the bitcoin price is back to the $113,000 range with high volatility. <\/p>\n<p>At times, the bitcoin price was down roughly 10% with many other cryptocurrencies down 20-40%<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>JUST IN: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BITCOIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#BITCOIN<\/a> FALLS BELOW $109,000 AS US ANNOUNCES 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA <\/p>\n<p>HODL  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JddDFm801z\">pic.twitter.com\/JddDFm801z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1976759481863205329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 10, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets react to U.S-China trade relations<\/h2>\n<p>Global markets sold off earlier today following President Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-sinks-to-118000\">announcement<\/a> of plans to dramatically increase tariffs on Chinese goods.\u00a0The move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/10\/trump-china-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\">came in response<\/a> to Beijing\u2019s new restrictions on rare-earth exports, which the U.S. president accused China of using to \u201cmonopolize\u201d critical resources.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s tightened export controls now extend to foreign-made products that contain or were processed using Chinese rare-earths, signaling a major escalation in the trade dispute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The policy expansion \u2014 targeting defense, semiconductor, and AI sectors \u2014 sparked concerns of a global supply chain shock.<\/p>\n<p>Risk assets broadly tumbled today, with the S&amp;P 500 falling 2% and the Nasdaq down 2.7%. Trump also canceled a planned meeting with Xi Jinping at APEC, vowing to \u201cfinancially counter\u201d China\u2019s move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier described Beijing\u2019s actions as \u201csinister and hostile,\u201d claiming the U.S. holds even greater leverage but has refrained from using it \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto-related stocks, like Circle (CRCL), Robinhood (HOOD), Coinbase (COIN), and MicroStrategy (MSTR), declined 3%-12% throughout the day.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin price reaction<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin started October on a tear, hitting fresh all-time highs above $126,000 during the first week of the month before easing back into the $121,000 range in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Market analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-prediction-bombshell\">say the rally reflects<\/a> what many describe as the \u201ceuphoria phase\u201d of the ongoing bull cycle \u2014 a stage historically marked by rapid price acceleration and growing retail enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>If past cycles are any guide, the current momentum could propel Bitcoin toward the $180,000\u2013$200,000 range before sentiment cools.<\/p>\n<p>The leading cryptocurrency has climbed more than 30% since the start of the year, fueled by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-as-ibit-breaks-etf-records\">steady inflows<\/a> into U.S.-listed Bitcoin ETFs and a resurgence of investor confidence across the digital asset market.<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china\">Bitcoin Price Crashes to $108,000 As Trump To Impose 100% Tariffs on China<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/micahzimmerman\">Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Crashes to $108,000 As Trump To Impose 100% Tariffs on China Bitcoin price dropped to the $108,000 range today as escalating U.S.-China trade tensions and tariff talks sent shockwaves through global markets.\u00a0 President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social today that China has announced \u201caggressive\u201d and \u201cunprecedented\u201d export controls on nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}