{"id":1001678,"date":"2026-04-08T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001678"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:31:29","slug":"bitcoin-slips-below-68000-as-west-asia-war-weighs-on-cryptocurrency-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/08\/bitcoin-slips-below-68000-as-west-asia-war-weighs-on-cryptocurrency-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin slips below $68,000 as West Asia war weighs on cryptocurrency market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has slipped to $67,798.20, down 2.26% over the past 24 hours, amid broader volatility in the markets following a series of attacks by the United States on Iran&#8217;s infrastructure. The overall crypto market cap is at $2.33 trillion; and trading volume at $84.39 billion, as per CoinMarketCap data.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin market capitalisation is also down 2.2% to $1.35 trillion, with trading volume up 5.49% to $33.91 billion over the past 24 hours, according to data on CoinMarketCap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has slipped to $67,798.20, down 2.26% over the past 24 hours, amid broader volatility in the markets following a series of attacks by the United States on Iran&#8217;s infrastructure. The overall crypto market cap is at $2.33 trillion; and trading volume at $84.39 billion, as per CoinMarketCap data. Bitcoin market capitalisation is also down 2.2% to $1.35 trillion, with trading volume up 5.49% to $33.91 billion over the past 24 hours, according to data on CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}