{"id":88499,"date":"2023-12-20T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88499"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:28:52","slug":"bitcoin-tests-the-44000-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-tests-the-44000-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin tests the $44,000 level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 20, Bitcoin briefly traded at $44,200. The asset&#8217;s market capitalization stands at $862 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55\" class=\"wp-image-222556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.38.55-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly BTC\/USDT chart on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of writing, Bitcoin is trading a touch below the psychological threshold. In the last 24 hours, the asset rose 3.2%. Bitcoin&#8217;s dominance index stands at 53.8%.<\/p>\n<p>The total market capitalization of digital assets surpassed $1.7 trillion. The best performers over the past 24 hours were Avalanche (+7.8%) and Solana (+7%). Solana managed to overtake XRP and take fifth place in the rankings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-1024x639.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46\" class=\"wp-image-222557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-1536x958.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-20-v-17.40.46-2048x1278.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: CoinGecko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The founder of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, has stated that Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/michael-saylor-bitcoin-could-fall-to-zero-or-rise-to-1-million\">could either crash to zero, or soar to $1 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opinion-bitcoin-etf-approval-could-push-the-asset-to-1-million\">could reach this level<\/a> within a few &#8216;days or weeks&#8217; after approval of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">the spot-price ETF<\/a> based on the asset&#8217;s spot price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 20, Bitcoin briefly traded at $44,200. The asset&#8217;s market capitalization stands at $862 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88500,"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-88499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499","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=88499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88501,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88499\/revisions\/88501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}