{"id":9501,"date":"2021-03-02T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:25:45","slug":"a-major-chinese-bitcoin-mining-hub-is-shutting-down-its-cryptocurrency-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=9501","title":{"rendered":"A major Chinese bitcoin mining hub is shutting down its cryptocurrency operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin mining consumes more energy per year than entire countries and China is looking to clean up its consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/02\/china-bitcoin-mining-hub-to-shut-down-cryptocurrency-projects.html\">A major Chinese bitcoin mining hub is shutting down its cryptocurrency operations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>TO-DO: could the &#8220;proof of work&#8221; be something that is useful, like protein folding, SETI search, etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin mining consumes more energy per year than entire countries and China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,150,49,18,25,140],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bitcoin","tag-china","tag-crypto","tag-economics","tag-energy","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","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=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}