{"id":72260,"date":"2022-09-15T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=72260"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:32:10","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-price-drop-after-monumental-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/bitcoin-ethereum-price-drop-after-monumental-merge\/09\/15\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum prices drop after monumental Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uncertainty prevails Bitcoin price action as Ethereum trends downward despite the successful Merge as Bitcoin price trades below $20K, while Ethereum price drops 8%.  The most famous cryptocurrency in the world is spending a second day threatening $20,000 support on September 15 as markets celebrate the Ethereum\u2019s Merge.<br><br>The largest cryptocurrency broadly failed to regain lost ground after surprise United States inflation data on Sep. 13 sent risk assets into a nosediving.<br><br>Down 13.5% versus the week\u2019s top at the time of writing, Bitcoin offered little inspiration to traders who were still eyeing further losses. Bitcoin trades now at $19,835 versus Wednesday\u2019s closing price of $20,241.<br><br><br>Traders are looking forward to any development that can take Bitcoin price up to $20,800. Until then, several traders expect a bit more downside. Probably markets will remain calm until FOMC\u2019s decision next Wednesday. Maybe jobless claims of today have an impact, but there is a lack of explanation since the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index were modestly up at the start of trading, like crypto still to recover from losses earlier in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty prevails Bitcoin price action as Ethereum trends downward despite the successful Merge as Bitcoin price trades below $20K, while Ethereum price drops 8%. The most famous cryptocurrency in the world is spending a second day threatening $20,000 support on September 15 as markets celebrate the Ethereum\u2019s Merge.The largest cryptocurrency broadly failed to regain lost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":44550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36],"tags":[6904,6868],"class_list":["post-72260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-cryptocurrencies","category-market-updates","tag-bitcoin","tag-fomc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72271,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions\/72271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}