{"id":3211,"date":"2021-03-13T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:50:17","slug":"bitcoin-passes-us60000-for-first-time-as-people-collect-us-stimulus-chequessouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin passes US$60,000 for first time, as people collect US stimulus chequesSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBitcoin passed the US$60,000 mark for the first time on Saturday, with analysts saying the giant US stimulus package helped boost the world\u2019s most popular virtual currency on its record-breaking run.The cryptocurrency hit US$60,197 at 12.34 GMT and continued to hover around US$60,000, according to the website CoinMarketCap.Bitcoin has tripled in value over the last three months \u2013 it was worth US$20,000 in December \u2013 bolstered by increasing backing from corporate heavyweights.Markets.com analyst\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3125347\/bitcoin-passes-us60000-first-time-people-collect-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBitcoin passed the US$60,000 mark for the first time on Saturday, with analysts saying the giant US stimulus package helped boost the world\u2019s most popular virtual&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}