{"id":995882,"date":"2026-03-02T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995882"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:27:19","slug":"bitcoin-falls-below-65000-whats-driving-the-latest-crypto-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/bitcoin-falls-below-65000-whats-driving-the-latest-crypto-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin falls below $65,000: What\u2019s driving the latest crypto crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin prices dropped below $65,000 on Saturday as the cryptocurrency market reacted sharply to reports that Israel and the United States had launched military attacks against Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden escalation in geopolitical tensions triggered a wave of risk-off sentiment, where investors sell off volatile, high-risk assets like crypto and seek safer alternatives such as gold. As a result, Bitcoin was down nearly 3% at 12:58\u202fpm (UTC) on Saturday, slipping toward the low of $64,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin prices dropped below $65,000 on Saturday as the cryptocurrency market reacted sharply to reports that Israel and the United States had launched military attacks against Iran on Saturday. The sudden escalation in geopolitical tensions triggered a wave of risk-off sentiment, where investors sell off volatile, high-risk assets like crypto and seek safer alternatives such as gold. As a result, Bitcoin was down nearly 3% at 12:58\u202fpm (UTC) on Saturday, slipping toward the low of $64,000.<\/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-995882","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\/995882","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=995882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}