{"id":78271,"date":"2021-05-20T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78271"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:09:01","slug":"bitcoin-plunges-30-to-30000-at-one-point-in-wild-session-recovers-somewhat-to-38000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2021\/bitcoin-plunges-30-to-30000-at-one-point-in-wild-session-recovers-somewhat-to-38000.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin plunges 30% to $30,000 at one point in wild session, recovers somewhat to $38,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The flagship cryptocurrency fell to more than three-month lows on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/19\/bitcoin-btc-price-plunges-but-bottom-could-be-near-.html\">dropping to about $30,000 at one point<\/a> for a pullback of more than 30% and continuing a week of selling in the crypto space. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ETH.CM=\">Ether<\/a>, the main coin for the Ethereum blockchain network, was also down sharply and broke below $2,000 at one point, a more than 40% drop in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/19\/the-crypto-collapse-heres-whats-behind-bitcoins-sudden-drop.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The flagship cryptocurrency fell to more than three-month lows on Wednesday, dropping to about $30,000 at one point for a pullback of more than 30% and continuing a week of selling in the crypto space. Ether, the main coin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78271","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=78271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78272,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78271\/revisions\/78272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}