{"id":443155,"date":"2021-10-18T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443155"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T05:53:40","slug":"el-salvador-sees-greener-cryptocurrency-mining-in-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/el-salvador-sees-greener-cryptocurrency-mining-in-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador sees greener cryptocurrency mining in its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador\u2019s unfolding experiment as a first-adopter of the cryptocurrency bitcoin could be increasingly powered by new streams of renewable energy, the chief of the country\u2019s hydroelectric commission told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Energy-intensive cryptocurrency \u201cmining\u201d is done by computers, and has come under criticism from environmentalists as a big source of demand for mostly fossil fuel derived electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, which for years had served as the country\u2019s sole official currency. <\/p>\n<p>Daniel Alvarez, president of the state-run Lempa River Hydroelectric Executive Commission (CEL), said El Salvador has the potential to generate electricity through hydroelectric, solar, wind and tidal power projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador\u2019s unfolding experiment as a first-adopter of the cryptocurrency bitcoin could be increasingly powered by new streams of renewable energy, the chief of the country\u2019s hydroelectric commission told reporters on Friday. Energy-intensive cryptocurrency \u201cmining\u201d is done by computers, and has come under criticism from environmentalists as a big source of demand for mostly fossil fuel derived electricity. Last month, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, which for years had served as the country\u2019s sole official currency. Daniel Alvarez, president of the state-run Lempa River Hydroelectric Executive Commission (CEL), said [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443155","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=443155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}