{"id":999095,"date":"2026-03-24T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999095"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:51:36","slug":"bitcoin-falls-below-70000-mark-middle-east-conflict-drags-down-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/24\/bitcoin-falls-below-70000-mark-middle-east-conflict-drags-down-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin falls below $70,000 mark, Middle East conflict drags down cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Middle East conflict now stretching into its fourth week, the impact is rippling across global markets, triggering a fresh wave of selling in cryptocurrencies and pulling Bitcoin below the $70,000 mark. Bitcoin fell to around $68,000 and was hovering near $68,627 after about $243 million in rapid liquidations hit the market, with most losses coming from long positions. The broader crypto space also saw declines. Ethereum dropped 2%, while Bitcoin eased 0.9% over the past 24 hours. Among altcoins, BNB, XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, Hyperliquid and Cardano declined by up to 2%, while TRON managed a marginal gain of 0.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Middle East conflict now stretching into its fourth week, the impact is rippling across global markets, triggering a fresh wave of selling in cryptocurrencies and pulling Bitcoin below the $70,000 mark. Bitcoin fell to around $68,000 and was hovering near $68,627 after about $243 million in rapid liquidations hit the market, with most losses coming from long positions. The broader crypto space also saw declines. Ethereum dropped 2%, while Bitcoin eased 0.9% over the past 24 hours. Among altcoins, BNB, XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, Hyperliquid and Cardano declined by up to 2%, while TRON managed a marginal gain of [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999095","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=999095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}