{"id":247325,"date":"2018-02-02T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247325"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:56:39","slug":"bitcoin-falls-below-9000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/247325-bitcoin-falls-below-9000.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin falls below $9,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Bitcoin has dropped below $9,000 for the first time since 26 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinMarketCap<\/strong><\/a> shows the price of the cryptocurrency peaked at just over $20,000 on 17 December, before beginning a steady decline in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Other major cryptocurrencies including Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash have seen a similar drop in value over the period.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s market cap share has also dropped since its peak of 65% in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The market share of Bitcoin is currently 35%, with Ethereum and Ripple trailing at 22% and 8% respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-247327\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph-640x268.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin price graph\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph-640x268.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph-600x252.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-graph.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/247075-samsung-now-making-crypto-mining-chips.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung now making crypto mining chips<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Bitcoin has dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":236282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[187,48375,45058,12407],"class_list":["post-247325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-market","tag-market-cap","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247325"}],"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=247325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247335,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247325\/revisions\/247335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}