{"id":81830,"date":"2022-06-20T00:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=81830"},"modified":"2022-06-20T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:27:08","slug":"bitcoin-briefly-dropped-below-17800-as-sell-off-accelerates-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2022\/bitcoin-briefly-dropped-below-17800-as-sell-off-accelerates-heres-what-happened.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin briefly dropped below $17,800 as sell-off accelerates \u2014 here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CB=\">Bitcoin<\/a> plunged to about $17,749 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ETH=\">ether<\/a> fell to about $897 at around 4:15 E.T. on Saturday afternoon, as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerates. The world\u2019s two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the past week, as both breach symbolic price barriers. Bitcoin bounced back to around $18,955 and ether was trading at about $995 just after 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/18\/bitcoin-price-drops-below-18600-as-sell-off-accelerates.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Bitcoin plunged to about $17,749 and ether fell to about $897 at around 4:15 E.T. on Saturday afternoon, as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerates. The world\u2019s two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the [&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-81830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81830","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=81830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81832,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81830\/revisions\/81832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}