{"id":416206,"date":"2021-05-21T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416206"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:44:45","slug":"elon-musk-asks-ark-that-audits-could-solve-bitcoins-energy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elon-musk-asks-ark-that-audits-could-solve-bitcoins-energy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk asks Ark that audits could solve Bitcoin\u2019s energy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that audits of renewable energy used by large Bitcoin miners could help assuage concerns about the cryptocurrency\u2019s environmental impact. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent extreme energy usage growth could not possibly have been done so fast with renewables,&#8221; Musk said in response to a tweet from Ark Investment director of research Brett Winton about the potential that Bitcoin mining has to foster the wider use of solar and battery systems on the power grid. \u201cThis question is easily resolved if the top 10 hashing orgs just post audited numbers of renewable energy vs not.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that audits of renewable energy used by large Bitcoin miners could help assuage concerns about the cryptocurrency\u2019s environmental impact. \u201cRecent extreme energy usage growth could not possibly have been done so fast with renewables,&#8221; Musk said in response to a tweet from Ark Investment director of research Brett Winton about the potential that Bitcoin mining has to foster the wider use of solar and battery systems on the power grid. \u201cThis question is easily resolved if the top 10 hashing orgs just post audited numbers of renewable energy vs not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}