{"id":978111,"date":"2025-12-03T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978111"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:23:16","slug":"bitcoin-and-ethereum-plunge-btc-sheds-33-eth-36-in-bear-run-whats-driving-the-crypto-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/bitcoin-and-ethereum-plunge-btc-sheds-33-eth-36-in-bear-run-whats-driving-the-crypto-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin and Ethereum plunge: BTC sheds 33%, ETH 36% in bear run \u2014 What&#8217;s driving the crypto sell-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin hit an all-time record high of over 126,000 levels in October and has since been in a nearly two-month bear run, down 33%. The broader crypto market is also down below $3 trillion market capitalisation, and the second-largest token, Ethereum, is shedding 36% in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Riya Sehgal, Research Analyst at Delta Exchange, told Mint that the downturn followed a volatile weekend, during which over $500 million in liquidations occurred, leaving sentiment fragile and risk appetite subdued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin hit an all-time record high of over 126,000 levels in October and has since been in a nearly two-month bear run, down 33%. The broader crypto market is also down below $3 trillion market capitalisation, and the second-largest token, Ethereum, is shedding 36% in the same period. Riya Sehgal, Research Analyst at Delta Exchange, told Mint that the downturn followed a volatile weekend, during which over $500 million in liquidations occurred, leaving sentiment fragile and risk appetite subdued.<\/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-978111","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\/978111","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=978111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}