{"id":419607,"date":"2021-06-10T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419607"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:07:49","slug":"green-bitcoin-el-salvador-to-mine-crypto-using-geothermal-energy-from-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/green-bitcoin-el-salvador-to-mine-crypto-using-geothermal-energy-from-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Green bitcoin: El Salvador to mine crypto using geothermal energy from volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Hours after passing a resolution that made it the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as a legal tender, Latin American nation El Salvador has said that it will mine the cryptocurrency using geothermal energy from its volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, President Nayib Bukele, said: \u201cI\u2019ve just instructed the president of @LaGeoSV (our state-owned geothermal electric company), to put up a plan to offer facilities for bitcoin mining with very cheap, 100% clean, 100% renewable, 0 emissions energy from our volcanos.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>El Salvador, in a historic move on Wednesday, became the first country in the world to officially adopt bitcoin as the legal tender. The nation\u2019s Congress approved Bukele&#8217;s proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency with 62 out of 84 possible votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Hours after passing a resolution that made it the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as a legal tender, Latin American nation El Salvador has said that it will mine the cryptocurrency using geothermal energy from its volcanoes. In a tweet, President Nayib Bukele, said: \u201cI\u2019ve just instructed the president of @LaGeoSV (our state-owned geothermal electric company), to put up a plan to offer facilities for bitcoin mining with very cheap, 100% clean, 100% renewable, 0 emissions energy from our volcanos.&#8221; El Salvador, in a historic move on Wednesday, became the first country in the world [&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-419607","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\/419607","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=419607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}