{"id":301378,"date":"2019-04-01T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=301378"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:28:30","slug":"bitcoin-climbs-to-highest-level-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/301378-bitcoin-climbs-to-highest-level-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin climbs to highest level this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin advanced to the highest level of 2019, the latest milestone for cryptocurrencies as they claw back from a year that saw three-quarters of their market value wiped out.<\/p>\n

The biggest digital coin on Monday rose as much as 1.6 percent to $4,135.60, the top intraday level since Dec. 24, according to weekday trading data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin is close to breaking above an intraday level set on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

That day marked the end of a U.S. stocks selloff, after which the S&P 500 Index started a rally that continued through March and reversed most of the fourth-quarter rout.<\/p>\n

The digital token\u2019s comeback has been so gradual that its 30-day volatility has sunk almost to levels last seen before the 2017 cryptocurrency mania, when it bounded close to $20,000 and grabbed worldwide attention.<\/p>\n

Now read: The investments you should have made at the start of 2019<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin advanced to the highest level of 2019, the latest milestone for cryptocurrencies as they claw back from a year that saw three-quarters of their market value wiped out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":224650,"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":[187,51257,191],"class_list":["post-301378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-trading","tag-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301378"}],"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\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301380,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301378\/revisions\/301380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}