{"id":77252,"date":"2021-02-16T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77252"},"modified":"2021-02-16T02:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:27:43","slug":"bitcoin-hits-a-record-high-of-nearly-50000-as-major-firms-flock-to-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/bitcoin-hits-a-record-high-of-nearly-50000-as-major-firms-flock-to-crypto.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin hits a record high of nearly $50,000 as major firms flock to crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=BTC.CM=\">Bitcoin\u2019s<\/a> price reached a new record high of almost $50,000 on Sunday, as major Fortune 500 companies showed support for digital currencies. The world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency by market value surged more than 5% to an all-time high of $49,716 Sunday afternoon, according to data from industry website CoinDesk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/15\/bitcoin-btc-price-hits-a-record-high-of-nearly-50000.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Bitcoin\u2019s price reached a new record high of almost $50,000 on Sunday, as major Fortune 500 companies showed support for digital currencies. The world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency by market value surged more than 5% to an all-time high of $49,716 [&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-77252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77252","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=77252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77253,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77252\/revisions\/77253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}