{"id":12651,"date":"2014-12-15T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12651"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:14","slug":"how-long-would-it-take-to-mine-bitcoin-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/how-long-would-it-take-to-mine-bitcoin-by-hand","title":{"rendered":"How Long Would It Take to Mine Bitcoin by Hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/07\/03\/bitcoin-going-from-deceptive-to-disruptive\/\">Bitcoin is<\/a> a decentralized, digital currency. It was invented by a mysterious individual known by the handle, Satoshi Nakamoto. A bitcoin is volatile but is currently worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/\">about $380<\/a>; regulators are increasingly interested; retailers too\u2014true believers believe.<\/p>\n<p>These headlines you\u2019ve likely read. But where the hell do bitcoins come from anyway? They\u2019re mined by computers making calculations lightning fast\u2014or in this case, by a man with sixteen minutes\u2019 free time, a pencil, and pad of paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/30\/how-long-would-it-take-to-mine-bitcoin-by-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Bitcoin is a decentralized, digital currency. It was invented by a mysterious individual known by the handle, Satoshi Nakamoto. A bitcoin is volatile but is currently worth about $380; regulators are increasingly interested; retailers too\u2014true believers believe. These headlines you\u2019ve likely read. But where the hell do bitcoins [\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-12651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651","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=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46717,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions\/46717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}