{"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\/2018\/02\/bitcoin-falls-6000\/","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. 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