{"id":601636,"date":"2026-05-19T19:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=815523"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:51:57","slug":"long-traders-lose-17-3m-as-bitcoin-stalls-below-77000-on-iran-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/long-traders-lose-17-3m-as-bitcoin-stalls-below-77000-on-iran-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Traders Lose $17.3M as Bitcoin Stalls Below $77,000 on Iran Tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/long-traders-lose-17-3m-as-bitcoin-stalls-below-77000-on-iran-tension-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin chart on Tuesday May 19.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin fluctuated between $76,200 and $77,245, ultimately stabilizing around $76,750. Despite the daily volatility (up 0.7%), it remained down nearly 5% for the week, holding a market cap of $1.54 trillion. Geopolitical Tension Stalls Momentum Bitcoin traded sideways on Tuesday, oscillating between a low of $76,200 and an intraday high of $77,245 as global markets [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin fluctuated between $76,200 and $77,245, ultimately stabilizing around $76,750. Despite the daily volatility (up 0.7%), it remained down nearly 5% for the week, holding a market cap of $1.54 trillion. Geopolitical Tension Stalls Momentum Bitcoin traded sideways on Tuesday, oscillating between a low of $76,200 and an intraday high of $77,245 as global markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-601636","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\/601636","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=601636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}