{"id":247433,"date":"2018-02-02T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247433"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:00:52","slug":"bitcoin-drops-below-8000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/247433-bitcoin-drops-below-8000.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin drops below $8,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has fallen to just below $8,000, according to international indicators.<\/p>\n<p>The price move follows Bitcoin dropping through the <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/247325-bitcoin-falls-below-9000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>$9,000 mark<\/strong><\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinDesk<\/strong><\/a>, Bitcoin sunk to $7,995 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>The price drop follows speculation that Bitcoin will not receive the widespread government and user acceptance it needs to become a global payment system.<\/p>\n<p>Data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinMarketCap<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0shows 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<h3 class=\"my-4\">Bitcoin price &#8211; 1-year graph<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247435\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-640x320.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/245956-status-messenger-connect-your-smartphone-to-ethereum.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Status Messenger \u2013 Connect your smartphone to Ethereum<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has fallen to just below $8,000.<\/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":[44696],"tags":[187,35],"class_list":["post-247433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247433"}],"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=247433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247437,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247433\/revisions\/247437"}],"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=247433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}