{"id":89524,"date":"2024-10-02T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89524"},"modified":"2024-10-02T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T05:20:17","slug":"bitcoin-tumbles-back-to-the-60000-level-as-tensions-in-the-middle-east-heighten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2024\/bitcoin-tumbles-back-to-the-60000-level-as-tensions-in-the-middle-east-heighten.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin tumbles back to the $60,000 level as tensions in the Middle East heighten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Cryptocurrencies slid on Tuesday night, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CM=\/\">bitcoin<\/a>\u00a0dropping back to the $60,000 level after a shaky start to what is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/01\/october-bitcoin-outlook.html\">usually one of its strongest months<\/a>. The flagship crypto was last off by nearly 4% at $60,972.62, according to Coin Metrics. Around 4:45 p.m. Eastern time, bitcoin slid to as low as $60,175.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ETH.CM=\/\">Ether<\/a>\u00a0last traded at $2,449.83, down more than 5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/01\/crypto-market-today.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Cryptocurrencies slid on Tuesday night, with\u00a0bitcoin\u00a0dropping back to the $60,000 level after a shaky start to what is\u00a0usually one of its strongest months. The flagship crypto was last off by nearly 4% at $60,972.62, according to Coin Metrics. Around [&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-89524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89524","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=89524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89525,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89524\/revisions\/89525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}