{"id":17090,"date":"2025-03-10T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17090"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:47:27","slug":"bitcoin-plunges-below-79000-why-are-btc-eth-xrp-going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17090","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Plunges Below $79,000: Why Are BTC, ETH, XRP Going Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) has fallen below $79,000 on Monday, raising concerns among analysts who believe the downturn may not be over.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>XRP <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>), <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) and other altcoins also under pressure, experts suggest that market expectations have been reset, and further corrections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44227857\/bitcoins-drops-below-80000-correction-or-buying-opportunity\">remain a possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Bitcoin is currently trading at $78,650, down 4.5% in the past 24 hours, while Ethereum has dropped 4.7% to $1,925.<\/p>\n<p>Among major altcoins, XRP and <strong>BNB <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/bnb\/usd\">BNB<\/a>) have declined 2% each, <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>) has fallen 6%, and <strong>Dogecoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>) is down 5%.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto market has seen $637.35 million in liquidations over the past day, with long positions accounting for $460.19 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/LiquidationData\">data<\/a> from <strong>Coinglass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The decline follows Bitcoin&#8217;s peak at $109,000 in January, marking a nearly 25% drop that has erased most of its previous gains. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Experts Are Saying: <\/strong>According to <strong>James Toledano<\/strong>, Chief Operating Officer of <strong>Unity Wallet<\/strong>, the pullback is largely due to unrealistic expectations surrounding the strategic Bitcoin reserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest letdown has been the U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, which turned out to be nothing more than a repackaging of seized FBI assets\u2014around 200,000 BTC, just 1% of Bitcoin&#8217;s market cap\u2014placed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44230776\/bitcoin-plunges-below-79000-why-are-btc-eth-xrp-going-down\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" plunges below why are btc eth xrp going down>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has fallen below $79,000 on Monday, raising concerns among analysts who believe the downturn may not be over. With XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and other altcoins also under pressure, experts suggest that market expectations have been reset, and further corrections remain a possibility. What Happened: Bitcoin is currently trading at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}