{"id":438316,"date":"2021-09-27T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438316"},"modified":"2021-09-27T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:37:28","slug":"bitcoin-miners-eye-n-power-as-environmental-criticism-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bitcoin-miners-eye-n-power-as-environmental-criticism-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin miners eye N-power as environmental criticism mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a heated debate over Bitcoin\u2019s environmental toll, two companies say they have an answer on mitigating some of the negative effects: Nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>Power startup Oklo Inc. said it\u2019s partnering with Bitcoin mining and hosting firm Compass Mining to introduce advanced fission to the energy-intensive process of minting new coins. It\u2019s an effort, the companies say, to reduce fossil-fuel emissions from Bitcoin mining and to diversify energy sources used by the miners, who compete to verify transactions in exchange for new coins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBitcoin is a huge market opportunity for clean energy generation, especially looking forward for new generation systems,\u201d said Oklo Chief Executive Officer Jacob DeWitte, who founded the company with Caroline Cochran in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a heated debate over Bitcoin\u2019s environmental toll, two companies say they have an answer on mitigating some of the negative effects: Nuclear energy. Power startup Oklo Inc. said it\u2019s partnering with Bitcoin mining and hosting firm Compass Mining to introduce advanced fission to the energy-intensive process of minting new coins. It\u2019s an effort, the companies say, to reduce fossil-fuel emissions from Bitcoin mining and to diversify energy sources used by the miners, who compete to verify transactions in exchange for new coins. \u201cBitcoin is a huge market opportunity for clean energy generation, especially looking forward for new generation systems,\u201d [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316","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=438316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}