{"id":92603,"date":"2019-06-24T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency-just-resuscitated-bitcoin"},"modified":"2019-06-24T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:42:58","slug":"facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency-just-resuscitated-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency-just-resuscitated-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Libra Cryptocurrency Just Resuscitated Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency-just-resuscitated-bitcoin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin reached the highest value the popular cryptocurrency has had in the last 16 months \u2014 $11,251.21 \u2014 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And Facebook is likely to blame. Analysts suggest that the social media giant\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency\">recent unveiling<\/a> of its own cryptocurrency called Libra likely bolstered investors\u2019 confidence in crypto across the board, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-bitcoin-surges-facebook-currency.html\">according to <em>Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/a>. Though Bitcoin never really recovered from its <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bitfinex-tether-bitcoin-manipulation\">massive crash<\/a> in late 2017, the recent resurgence is a sign that the cryptocurrency isn\u2019t quite fading away as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mining-bitcoin-energy-gold\">some believed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin reached the highest value the popular cryptocurrency has had in the last 16 months \u2014 $11,251.21 \u2014 on Monday. And Facebook is likely to blame. Analysts suggest that the social media giant\u2019s recent unveiling of its own cryptocurrency called Libra likely bolstered investors\u2019 confidence in crypto across the board, according to Agence France-Presse. Though [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92603","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}