{"id":220026,"date":"2017-07-17T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=220026"},"modified":"2017-07-19T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T15:02:32","slug":"cryptocurrency-markets-suffer-massive-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/220026-cryptocurrency-markets-suffer-massive-drop.html","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency markets suffer massive drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The value of publicly-traded cryptocurrencies dropped by over $10 billion this weekend, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/cryptocurrency-market-nears-50-decline-time-highs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinDesk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the total market has fallen by\u00a046.9% since its all-time high\u00a0of $115 billion in mid-June &#8211; dropping to $61 billion on 16 July.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrencies most affected by the sell-off include Ethereum and Ripple&#8217;s XRP. Bitcoin was also affected, dropping below the $2,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In just over 30 days, the price of Bitcoin has fallen 38% from $3,018 on 12 June to a low of $1,866,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/215546-how-to-spend-your-bitcoin-and-ethereum-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to spend your Bitcoin and Ethereum in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of publicly-traded cryptocurrencies dropped by over $10 billion this weekend, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219068,"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":[10106,44696],"tags":[187,43378,42124],"class_list":["post-220026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-ethereum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026"}],"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=220026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220032,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026\/revisions\/220032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}