{"id":48050,"date":"2021-08-20T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48050"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:18:26","slug":"bitcoin-price-surpasses-48700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-price-surpasses-48700\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin price surpasses $48,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 20, bitcoin prices hit a May high, surpassing $48,700.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, bitcoin is trading around $48,760. Over the past 24 hours the asset rose 6.4%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/ru\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2021-08-20_19-55-54-1024x491.png\" alt=\"Bitcoin price surpasses $48,700\" class=\"wp-image-146377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2021-08-20_19-55-54-1024x491.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2021-08-20_19-55-54-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2021-08-20_19-55-54-768x368.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2021-08-20_19-55-54.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>BTC\/USD Bitstamp chart. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSD\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The price of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose 6.7% to $3,263. The BTC dominance index is 42.3%, ETH is 17.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, bitcoin skeptic and gold bug Peter Schiff acknowledged that the price of the leading cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/peter-schiff-if-i-could-go-back-i-would-buy-bitcoin\">could surge to $100,000<\/a> and that he did not buy the asset back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 20, bitcoin prices hit a May high, surpassing $48,700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-48050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48052,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48050\/revisions\/48052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}