{"id":10671,"date":"2014-04-20T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:10","slug":"bitcoin-miner-taps-dads-power-plant-in-virtual-money-hunt-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/bitcoin-miner-taps-dads-power-plant-in-virtual-money-hunt-tech","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Miner Taps Dad\u2019s Power Plant in Virtual-Money Hunt: Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\">Jason Clenfield and Pavel Alpeyev \u2014 Bloomberg<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\" \/><br \/> In the five years since bitcoin was created, the hunt for them has consumed enough electricity to keep the Eiffel Tower lit for 260 years. One man\u2019s way around the utility bills: the family power plant.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Wilhelm is a bitcoin miner, one of thousands who use computers to solve complex math problems and get their hands on the digital currency. The expatriate living in Tokyo has 30 remote-controlled servers mining virtual gold in an old brick building in the Austrian countryside. His father is donating the electricity, which comes from a water-driven turbine that survived a World War II bombing raid and once powered the entire village of Tattendorf, where Wilhelm grew up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-04-16\/bitcoin-miner-taps-dad-s-power-plant-in-virtual-money-hunt-tech.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Clenfield and Pavel Alpeyev \u2014 Bloomberg In the five years since bitcoin was created, the hunt for them has consumed enough electricity to keep the Eiffel Tower lit for 260 years. One man\u2019s way around the utility bills: the family power plant. Alex Wilhelm is a bitcoin miner, one of thousands who use computers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47134,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/47134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}