{"id":645977,"date":"2026-08-20T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=840202"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:32:07","slug":"schiff-dismisses-bitcoins-72k-surge-as-treasury-fueled-fakeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/schiff-dismisses-bitcoins-72k-surge-as-treasury-fueled-fakeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiff Dismisses Bitcoin\u2019s $72k Surge as Treasury-Fueled Fakeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/schiff-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Peter Schiff X Post\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Peter Schiff, a known bitcoin critic, argued that the bitcoin rally was fake, a result of investors rushing to position liquidity as the Treasury buybacks announcement caught markets by surprise. Paradoxically, he recommended investing in gold for the same reasons. Economist Peter Schiff Labels Bitcoin&#8217;s Surge over $72K as a Fakeout As bitcoin has once [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Schiff, a known bitcoin critic, argued that the bitcoin rally was fake, a result of investors rushing to position liquidity as the Treasury buybacks announcement caught markets by surprise. Paradoxically, he recommended investing in gold for the same reasons. Economist Peter Schiff Labels Bitcoin&#8217;s Surge over $72K as a Fakeout As bitcoin has once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645977","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\/645977","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=645977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}