{"id":142255,"date":"2026-03-15T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142255"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:29:21","slug":"tao-surges-by-double-digit-btc-price-eyes-72k-weekend-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142255","title":{"rendered":"TAO Surges by Double Digit, BTC Price Eyes $72K: Weekend Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the latest developments in the Middle East war, bitcoin\u2019s price has shown strong resilience and even neared $72,000 earlier today.<\/p>\n

Most larger-cap altcoins are in the green today, with ETH climbing above $2,100. TAO has become the top performer from the larger caps, gaining over 12% daily.<\/p>\n

BTC Eyes $72K<\/h2>\n

The previous business week began with a short-lived correction that drove BTC to $65,600 as the asset reacted to the weekend actions on the US\/Israel-Iran war front. However, the cryptocurrency rebounded in the following days and surged past $70,000 on Wednesday after the release of the latest CPI data and Trump\u2019s rather promising words that the war could be coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin slipped below $70,000 a day later, but the bulls took complete control on Friday, initiating another impressive leg up that pushed it to a 10-day peak of $74,000. However, it was immediately rejected<\/a> there and dropped toward $70,000 as the US carried out<\/a> a massive targeted attack against a key Iranian island.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, BTC remained above that level even as Trump urged other countries to send ships to defend the oil export through the Strait of Hormuz, and France responded<\/a> positively. Moreover, it charted some gains in the past several hours as bitcoin challenged $72,000 but to no avail yet.<\/p>\n

Its market cap has climbed to nearly $1.440 trillion, while its dominance over the alts is up to 57%.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BTCUSD Chart March 15. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n

TAO Flies<\/h2>\n

As the graph below will demonstrate, most larger-cap alts are slightly in the green. ETH has climbed above $2,100, BNB is north of $660, while XRP trades at $1.415. Similar gains come from the likes of SOL, TRX, DOGE, ADA, BCH, while LINK is up by over 3.5% to $9.2.<\/p>\n

MNT, TAO, and ZEC are the top performers from the larger-cap alts. TAO has even pumped by double digits and now trades close to $270.<\/p>\n

The total crypto market cap has added roughly $40 billion since yesterday and sits well above $2.5 trillion on CG.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Cryptocurrency Market Overview March 15. Source: QuantifyCrypto<\/p>\n

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Despite the latest developments in the Middle East war, bitcoin\u2019s price has shown strong resilience and even neared $72,000 earlier today. Most larger-cap altcoins are in the green today, with ETH climbing above $2,100. TAO has become the top performer from the larger caps, gaining over 12% daily. BTC Eyes $72K The previous business week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":142256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142255","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\/142255"}],"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=142255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}