{"id":122983,"date":"2021-05-25T02:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging"},"modified":"2021-05-25T02:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:08:35","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he talked to \u2018North American Bitcoin miners,\u2019 sending bitcoin price surging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.BS=-USS\">bitcoin<\/a> jumped about 4% Monday afternoon after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was having active discussions regarding the sustainability of the digital coin.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was trading around $38074, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">Coindesk<\/a>, when at about 3:42 p.m. ET Musk posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TWTR\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>: \u201cSpoke with North American Bitcoin miners. They committed to publish current &amp; planned renewable usage &amp; to ask miners WW to do so. Potentially promising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, the price had shot up to more than $39500. Overall, the coin is up more than 17% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of bitcoin jumped about 4% Monday afternoon after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was having active discussions regarding the sustainability of the digital coin. Bitcoin was trading around $38074, according to Coindesk, when at about 3:42 p.m. ET Musk posted on Twitter: \u201cSpoke with North American Bitcoin miners. They committed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,2019,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122983","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}