
{"id":138716,"date":"2026-02-28T06:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138716"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:54:15","slug":"breaking-bitcoins-price-plunges-below-64k-as-israel-attacks-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138716","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Bitcoin\u2019s Price Plunges Below $64K as Israel Attacks Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The enhanced price volatility this week continues, as bitcoin has started to lose value rapidly once again, dropping to a multi-day low of well under $63,600.<\/p>\n<p>The latest leg down was likely prompted by the quickly escalating global tension, especially between the two old enemies \u2013 Iran and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The breaking story started to develop less than half an hour ago on Saturday morning when multiple news outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/28\/middleeast\/israel-attack-iran-intl-hnk\">reported<\/a> that Israel had launched an \u201cpreemptive attack\u201d against Iran. The former\u2019s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced a state of emergency within the country because they expect retaliation from Iran by drones and other strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Similar instances in the past have impacted bitcoin\u2019s price, and this time is no different. Given the fact that the cryptocurrency space is the only financial market open during the weekend, the effects were immediate.<\/p>\n<p>In the span of just minutes, bitcoin went from $66,000 to $63,600 before recovering some ground to $64,000. However, the asset is <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/buterin-offloads-eth-bitcoin-unable-to-push-past-70k-xrp-spot-buying-increases-this-weeks-crypto-recap\/\">down<\/a> by over four grand since yesterday when it was rejected at $68,000.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, it peaked at $70,000 on Wednesday after it bounced from a multi-week low of $62,500 marked a day earlier. The altcoins have experienced similar volatility, with many dropping by 2% or more in the past hour alone.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the liquidations are on the rise again, hitting $450 million on a 24-hour scale. $185 million from the total came in just the last hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-28-085130-scaled.png\"><\/a>Liquidation Data on CoinGlass<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/breaking-bitcoins-price-plunges-below-64k-as-israel-attacks-iran\/\">BREAKING: Bitcoin\u2019s Price Plunges Below $64K as Israel Attacks Iran<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enhanced price volatility this week continues, as bitcoin has started to lose value rapidly once again, dropping to a multi-day low of well under $63,600. The latest leg down was likely prompted by the quickly escalating global tension, especially between the two old enemies \u2013 Iran and Israel. The breaking story started to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":138717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}