{"id":248985,"date":"2018-02-16T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=248985"},"modified":"2018-02-16T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:15:37","slug":"bitcoin-surges-back-over-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/248985-bitcoin-surges-back-over-10000.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin surges back over $10,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 has been a wild year for the cryptocurrency market so far, with coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum falling over 50%.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the tokens reached all-time highs in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The market once again demonstrated its volatility this week &#8211; albeit in a positive direction &#8211; with Bitcoin rallying over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin has now passed the $10,000 price point, after <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/247736-bitcoin-and-ethereum-have-just-fallen-off-a-cliff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>falling below $6,000<\/strong><\/a> just 10 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The price of Bitcoin is historically volatile, but it may have been influenced by recent worries about the regulation of Bitcoin by governments.<\/p>\n<p>Many credit card issuers have also limited the ability of customers to buy Bitcoin on credit, with US exchange Coinbase <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/248825-coinbase-halts-new-credit-card-registrations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disabling new credit card registrations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Bitcoin 1-month price<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-248987\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally-640x231.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin price drop and rally\" width=\"640\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally-640x231.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally-600x217.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Bitcoin-price-drop-and-rally.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/248891-european-authorities-investigate-austrian-bitcoin-scam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">European authorities investigate Austrian Bitcoin scam<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin has passed the $10,000 mark, after falling below $6,000 just 10 days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":236282,"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":[187,12407,48937],"class_list":["post-248985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-price","tag-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248985"}],"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=248985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248995,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248985\/revisions\/248995"}],"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=248985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}