{"id":399181,"date":"2018-02-07T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399181"},"modified":"2018-02-07T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:59:11","slug":"bitcoin-falls-6000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399181","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin falls below $6,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The value of Bitcoin has fallen to below $6,000 &#8211; its lowest price since November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The price fell to $5,947.40 (\u00a34,256.44) on Tuesday, according to a price index run by news website Coindesk.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin reached its peak in November, when it hit $19,000, and then began to fall steadily from mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>The latest fall comes a day after several major US and UK banks\u00a0banned customers from using credit cards to purchase the digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>Tightening legislation in several countries appears to have shaken confidence in crypto-currencies.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The price of Ethereum, which at its height on 9 January was $1,255.89, fell as low as $574.42<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Bitcoin Cash, which hit a peak $4,091.70 on 20 December 2017, slipped to $766.03<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Litecoin, which reached $366.01 on 19 December 2017, dropped to $106.94<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The assets later stage a partial recovery, with Bitcoin rising to about $7,418 before falling back again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of Bitcoin has fallen to below $6,000 &#8211; its lowest price since November 2017. The price fell to $5,947.40 (\u00a34,256.44) on Tuesday, according to a price index run by news website Coindesk. Bitcoin reached its peak in November, when it hit $19,000, and then began to fall steadily from mid-December. The latest fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":382561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[9776],"class_list":["post-399181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}