{"id":990060,"date":"2026-02-05T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990060"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:51:51","slug":"crypto-market-loses-500-billion-in-a-week-amid-falling-bitcoin-prices-whats-the-near-term-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/crypto-market-loses-500-billion-in-a-week-amid-falling-bitcoin-prices-whats-the-near-term-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto market loses $500 billion in a week amid falling Bitcoin prices. What&#8217;s the near-term outlook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half a trillion dollars has been erased from the cryptocurrency market in under a week as a Bitcoin-led selloff gathered pace. The total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies has dropped by $467.6 billion since January 29, according to data from CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin rebounded 1.31% to $76,681.72 on Wednesday. The largest cryptocurrency plunged to a 15-month low of $72,877 on Tuesday \u2014 a level last seen during US President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election in early November 2024, when expectations of a more crypto-friendly policy environment had been high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half a trillion dollars has been erased from the cryptocurrency market in under a week as a Bitcoin-led selloff gathered pace. The total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies has dropped by $467.6 billion since January 29, according to data from CoinGecko. Bitcoin rebounded 1.31% to $76,681.72 on Wednesday. The largest cryptocurrency plunged to a 15-month low of $72,877 on Tuesday \u2014 a level last seen during US President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election in early November 2024, when expectations of a more crypto-friendly policy environment had been high.<\/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-990060","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\/990060","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=990060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}