{"id":200190,"date":"2017-02-24T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200190"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:09:40","slug":"bitcoin-hits-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/200190-bitcoin-hits-all-time-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin hits all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has hit an all-time high, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-price-sets-new-time-high\/\">CoinDesk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index &#8211; the index Google uses for its results &#8211; the report stated that\u00a0Bitcoin&#8217;s previous highest level was $1,165.89 in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As of 24 February, it was sitting at over $1,200.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that the prospect of the US Securities and Exchange Commission approving the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF &#8211; the first bitcoin ETF &#8211; has\u00a0increased trader confidence.<\/p>\n<p>CoinDesk reported that the commission has a deadline of 11 March to make its decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-200198\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price-640x218.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoine price\" width=\"640\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price-640x218.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price-600x205.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price-768x262.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bitcoine-price-1200x409.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/194086-mmm-ponzi-scheme-back-in-south-africa-with-bitcoin-based-currency.html\">MMM &#8220;Ponzi scheme&#8221; back in South Africa with Bitcoin-based currency<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has hit an all-time high in terms of its US dollar value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":149097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[187,41576],"class_list":["post-200190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-bitcoin","tag-coinbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200202,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200190\/revisions\/200202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}