{"id":544740,"date":"2026-01-21T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=785451"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:01:13","slug":"altcoin-bloodbath-geopolitical-tensions-erase-billions-in-48-hour-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/altcoin-bloodbath-geopolitical-tensions-erase-billions-in-48-hour-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Altcoin Bloodbath: Geopolitical Tensions Erase Billions in 48-Hour Rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eeexeccttrreee-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Altcoin Bloodbath: Geopolitical Tensions Erase Billions in 48-Hour Rout\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>On Jan. 20, the altcoin market suffered a sharp sell-off, with total market capitalization dipping to $1.26 trillion before a slight recovery. The Altcoin Bloodbath Altcoins endured a brutal wave of selling late on Jan. 20, as their market capitalization briefly cratered to $1.26 trillion before recovering and consolidating above $1.3 trillion in the early [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 20, the altcoin market suffered a sharp sell-off, with total market capitalization dipping to $1.26 trillion before a slight recovery. The Altcoin Bloodbath Altcoins endured a brutal wave of selling late on Jan. 20, as their market capitalization briefly cratered to $1.26 trillion before recovering and consolidating above $1.3 trillion in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-544740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}