{"id":565097,"date":"2026-03-06T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=796758"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:01:38","slug":"bitcoin-slips-to-68000-as-middle-east-conflict-and-us-jobs-data-trigger-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/bitcoin-slips-to-68000-as-middle-east-conflict-and-us-jobs-data-trigger-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Slips to $68,000 as Middle East Conflict and US Jobs Data Trigger Sell-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/poof-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin surrendered its $70,000 support level, triggering a broader crypto market retreat that wiped out $329 million in leveraged positions. This downturn was fueled by a perfect storm of geopolitical and macroeconomic pressures. Wiping out the \u2018War Gains\u2019 Bitcoin\u2019s midweek resilience crumbled Friday, March 6, as the cryptocurrency surrendered the psychological $70,000 stronghold. After a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin surrendered its $70,000 support level, triggering a broader crypto market retreat that wiped out $329 million in leveraged positions. This downturn was fueled by a perfect storm of geopolitical and macroeconomic pressures. Wiping out the \u2018War Gains\u2019 Bitcoin\u2019s midweek resilience crumbled Friday, March 6, as the cryptocurrency surrendered the psychological $70,000 stronghold. After a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":565098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-565097","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\/565097","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=565097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}