{"id":1027167,"date":"2026-08-07T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027167"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:49","slug":"bitcoin-price-today-btc-ethereum-firm-as-hormuz-talks-continue-can-bitcoin-rally-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/bitcoin-price-today-btc-ethereum-firm-as-hormuz-talks-continue-can-bitcoin-rally-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin price today: BTC, Ethereum firm as Hormuz talks continue; can Bitcoin rally in August?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin and Ethereum prices opened higher on Thursday, August 6, as investors moved back toward riskier assets while negotiations linked to Iran and the Strait of Hormuz continued. A weaker-than-expected July jobs report from ADP also helped support crypto prices by reducing expectations of a possible US interest rate increase at the Federal Reserve\u2019s next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin opened at $64,602.32 on Thursday, up 0.9% from Wednesday\u2019s opening price. By 9:40 a.m. ET, Bitcoin had slipped slightly to $64,216.91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin and Ethereum prices opened higher on Thursday, August 6, as investors moved back toward riskier assets while negotiations linked to Iran and the Strait of Hormuz continued. A weaker-than-expected July jobs report from ADP also helped support crypto prices by reducing expectations of a possible US interest rate increase at the Federal Reserve\u2019s next meeting. Bitcoin opened at $64,602.32 on Thursday, up 0.9% from Wednesday\u2019s opening price. By 9:40 a.m. ET, Bitcoin had slipped slightly to $64,216.91.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027167","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=1027167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027168,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027167\/revisions\/1027168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}