{"id":1563,"date":"2021-05-19T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bitcoin-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-crashing\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:52:15","slug":"bitcoin-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-crashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bitcoin-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-crashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin: what is it and why is it crashing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The value of the cryptocurrency has plunged by nearly 30% after a meteoric rise in value. Here\u2019s what you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin is the world\u2019s most popular digital currency. It allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods and is not controlled by any single entity, country or central bank. There are more than 18m bitcoins in existence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/19\/bitcoin-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-crashing-cryptocurrency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/295e5f4b284f9f29c90bee7dc9495329e8237521\/0_174_5234_3140\/master\/5234.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4cdde1a25fbd297472f8e67f690df610\" title=\"Bitcoin: what is it and why is it crashing?\" \/>The value of the cryptocurrency has plunged by nearly 30% after a meteoric rise in value. Here\u2019s what you need to know<br \/>\nBitcoin is the world\u2019s most popular digital currency. It allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods and is not controlled by any single entity, country or central bank. There are more than 18m bitcoins in existence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of the cryptocurrency has plunged by nearly 30% after a meteoric rise in value. Here\u2019s what you need to know Bitcoin is the world\u2019s most popular digital currency. It allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods and is not controlled by any single entity, country or central bank. There are more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bitcoin-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-crashing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bitcoin: what is it and why is it crashing?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}