{"id":564050,"date":"2026-02-03T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564050\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:13","slug":"bitcoin-breaks-below-73000-to-lowest-since-november-2024-as-heavy-selling-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564050\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin breaks below $73,000 to lowest since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CM=\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin<\/a> dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price in nearly 16 months.   <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s oldest cryptocurrency sank as low as $72,884.38, falling more than 6% on the day. That&#8217;s its lowest level since Nov. 6, 2024, when the token traded at $68,898. <\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin performance over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin has fallen 16% in the year-to-date as investors have continued to rotate out of risk-on assets amid mounting geopolitical concerns and as the release of crucial U.S. economic data is delayed due to a partial government shutdown.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSTR\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strategy,<\/a> a bitcoin treasury firm, was trading down 9% following the digital asset&#8217;s pullback. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":564051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[8186,133,81,51,3346,135,50,134,96265,52,3642],"class_list":["post-564050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bitcoin-usd-coin-metrics","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-headlines","tag-investment-strategy","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-stock-markets","tag-strategy-inc","tag-top-stories","tag-wall-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116008574504965997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}