{"id":419817,"date":"2021-06-11T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419817"},"modified":"2021-06-11T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:51:37","slug":"bitcoin-mining-council-debuts-as-energy-backlash-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bitcoin-mining-council-debuts-as-energy-backlash-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Council debuts as energy backlash increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin Mining Council made its formal debut Thursday amid a growing debate over the amount of energy used in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bitcoin Mining Council is a voluntary and open forum of Bitcoin miners committed to the network and its core principles,&#8221; MicroStrategy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Saylor, who helped to form the association, wrote on Twitter. He added, \u201cJoin us,&#8221; alongside a praying-hands emoji. <\/p>\n<p>Saylor, who has made acquiring Bitcoin a business strategy of the enterprise software maker, sought to quell concern about the energy usage after Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk cited it as a reason to stop accepting Bitcoin as payment for the company\u2019s cars. Musk later expressed support for the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin Mining Council made its formal debut Thursday amid a growing debate over the amount of energy used in cryptocurrencies. \u201cThe Bitcoin Mining Council is a voluntary and open forum of Bitcoin miners committed to the network and its core principles,&#8221; MicroStrategy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Saylor, who helped to form the association, wrote on Twitter. He added, \u201cJoin us,&#8221; alongside a praying-hands emoji. Saylor, who has made acquiring Bitcoin a business strategy of the enterprise software maker, sought to quell concern about the energy usage after Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk cited it as a reason to [&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-419817","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\/419817","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=419817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}