{"id":76983,"date":"2021-01-22T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76983"},"modified":"2021-01-22T02:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:26:28","slug":"bitcoin-tumbles-below-30000-extending-its-plunge-to-start-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2021\/bitcoin-tumbles-below-30000-extending-its-plunge-to-start-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin tumbles below $30,000, extending its plunge to start 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=BTC.CB=\">Bitcoin<\/a> tumbled below $30,000 on Thursday, as the cryptocurrency continued its 2021 slide after quadrupling in value last year. The digital currency dropped 17% to $29,246.77, wiping out about $100 billion from the market, according to data from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">CoinDesk<\/a>. It\u2019s now down more than 30% since peaking at $41,940 earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/21\/bitcoin-drops-below-30000.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Bitcoin tumbled below $30,000 on Thursday, as the cryptocurrency continued its 2021 slide after quadrupling in value last year. The digital currency dropped 17% to $29,246.77, wiping out about $100 billion from the market, according to data from CoinDesk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76984,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983\/revisions\/76984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}