{"id":955271,"date":"2025-08-16T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955271"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:11:22","slug":"bitcoin-hits-record-high-above-124000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/bitcoin-hits-record-high-above-124000\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin hits record high above $124,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin hit a record high on Thursday during early Asian trading, surpassing $124,000, driven by favourable US legislation and a rise in US equities.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency rose above its previous July record, briefly exceeding $124,500 before retreating.<\/p>\n<p>US stocks ended higher Wednesday, with the S&amp;P 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq reaching new heights this week, contributing to the cryptocurrency&#8217;s rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin hit a record high on Thursday during early Asian trading, surpassing $124,000, driven by favourable US legislation and a rise in US equities. The cryptocurrency rose above its previous July record, briefly exceeding $124,500 before retreating. US stocks ended higher Wednesday, with the S&amp;P 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq reaching new heights this week, contributing to the cryptocurrency&#8217;s rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955271","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}