{"id":435987,"date":"2021-09-15T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435987"},"modified":"2021-09-15T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:29:43","slug":"bitcoin-uses-more-electricity-than-many-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bitcoin-uses-more-electricity-than-many-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power guzzler<br \/>\nCryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use astonishing amounts of electricity, says an article in the New York Times. The process of creating Bitcoin consumes around 96 terawatt-hours of electricity annually &#8212; more than what is used by the Philippines. The usage is close to half-a-percent of all the electricity consumed in the world. And more than seven times as much electricity as all of Google\u2019s global operations. Read on to see how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power guzzler Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use astonishing amounts of electricity, says an article in the New York Times. The process of creating Bitcoin consumes around 96 terawatt-hours of electricity annually &#8212; more than what is used by the Philippines. The usage is close to half-a-percent of all the electricity consumed in the world. And more than seven times as much electricity as all of Google\u2019s global operations. Read on to see how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435987","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}