{"id":169948,"date":"2023-08-18T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/bitcoin-plunges-more-than-10-after-elon-musks-spacex-reportedly-sold-the-cryptocurrency"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:24:34","slug":"bitcoin-plunges-more-than-10-after-elon-musks-spacex-reportedly-sold-the-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/bitcoin-plunges-more-than-10-after-elon-musks-spacex-reportedly-sold-the-cryptocurrency","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin plunges more than 10% after Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX reportedly sold the cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bitcoin-plunges-more-than-10-after-elon-musks-spacex-reportedly-sold-the-cryptocurrency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of bitcoin plunged about 10% hours after it was revealed that Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX sold the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported on Thursday<\/a> that SpaceX, which first purchased bitcoin in 2021, wrote down the value of its bitcoin holdings by a total of $373 million in 2021 and 2022 and has sold the crypto.<\/p>\n<p>The write-down coincides with a steep drop in bitcoin\u2019s price, which crashed in late 2021, setting off a \u201ccrypto winter\u201d that extended through most of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of bitcoin plunged about 10% hours after it was revealed that Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX sold the cryptocurrency. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that SpaceX, which first purchased bitcoin in 2021, wrote down the value of its bitcoin holdings by a total of $373 million in 2021 and 2022 and has sold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}