{"id":418995,"date":"2021-06-07T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418995"},"modified":"2021-06-07T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T06:37:11","slug":"jack-dorseys-square-to-invest-5-million-to-build-solar-powered-bitcoin-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jack-dorseys-square-to-invest-5-million-to-build-solar-powered-bitcoin-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey\u2019s Square to invest $5 million to build solar-powered bitcoin mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American payments firm Square is partnering with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining to build a solar-powered bitcoin mining facility. The payments firm, led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, will invest $5 million for the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facility will be a proof-of-concept for a 100% renewable energy bitcoin mine at scale with the economics of the build-out, including operational costs and return on investment, made open to the public,&#8221; Blockstream said in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>The companies will share reports on the \u201ceconomics of the project&#8221; and build a dashboard that will allow others to track real-time metrics such as power output and bitcoins mined under the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American payments firm Square is partnering with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining to build a solar-powered bitcoin mining facility. The payments firm, led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, will invest $5 million for the facility. \u201cThe facility will be a proof-of-concept for a 100% renewable energy bitcoin mine at scale with the economics of the build-out, including operational costs and return on investment, made open to the public,&#8221; Blockstream said in a press release. The companies will share reports on the \u201ceconomics of the project&#8221; and build a dashboard that will allow others to track real-time metrics such as power [&hellip;]<\/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-418995","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\/418995","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=418995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}