{"id":119943,"date":"2021-02-25T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/beware-of-lazy-bitcoin-research-insights"},"modified":"2021-02-25T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:22:20","slug":"beware-of-lazy-bitcoin-research-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/beware-of-lazy-bitcoin-research-insights","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Lazy Bitcoin Research | Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beware-of-lazy-bitcoin-research-insights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin mining is mainly driven by renewable energy \u2014 hydro (by far the largest component), solar, wind and geothermal. Period.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we\u2019ve estimated the lower bound of renewables penetration in the bitcoin mining energy mix to be 77.6%.<\/p>\n<p>From 2018, but it\u2019s likely gotten better since then.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Addressing the dangers of lazy crypto industry research, and aiming to debunk the negative narrative that bitcoin detractors are attempting to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin mining is mainly driven by renewable energy \u2014 hydro (by far the largest component), solar, wind and geothermal. Period. In fact, we\u2019ve estimated the lower bound of renewables penetration in the bitcoin mining energy mix to be 77.6%. From 2018, but it\u2019s likely gotten better since then. Addressing the dangers of lazy crypto industry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119943","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}