{"id":29285,"date":"2023-09-07T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29285"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:19:42","slug":"texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31-7-million-to-shut-down-during-heat-wave-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29285","title":{"rendered":"Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/107296658-230906_Headlines_Thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"118\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/09\/06\/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html\">Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The total value of the credits dwarfed the 333 bitcoin the company mined in August, worth about $8.9 million dollars as of the end of the month.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[476,543,513,161],"class_list":["post-29285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bitcoin","tag-electricity","tag-texas","tag-unintended-consequences","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29288,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions\/29288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}