{"id":215773,"date":"2026-08-20T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=215773"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:20:58","slug":"btc-nears-72k-as-altcoins-surge-and-short-sellers-lose-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=215773","title":{"rendered":"BTC Nears $72K as Altcoins Surge and Short Sellers Lose $3B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by a U.S. Treasury announcement and bullish comments from President Donald Trump, bitcoin hit a session high of $71,992, pushing its market cap to $1.44 trillion. Bitcoin Nears $72,000 as Macro Rally Gains Steam Bitcoin maintained its upward momentum Thursday morning, approaching $72,000 as a rally sparked by a U.S. Treasury announcement showed no [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by a U.S. Treasury announcement and bullish comments from President Donald Trump, bitcoin hit a session high of $71,992, pushing its market cap to $1.44 trillion. Bitcoin Nears $72,000 as Macro Rally Gains Steam Bitcoin maintained its upward momentum Thursday morning, approaching $72,000 as a rally sparked by a U.S. Treasury announcement showed no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":215774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773"}],"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=215773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}