{"id":128388,"date":"2021-10-01T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/el-salvador-has-just-started-mining-bitcoin-using-the-energy-from-volcanoes"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:23:24","slug":"el-salvador-has-just-started-mining-bitcoin-using-the-energy-from-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/el-salvador-has-just-started-mining-bitcoin-using-the-energy-from-volcanoes","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador has just started mining bitcoin using the energy from volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/el-salvador-has-just-started-mining-bitcoin-using-the-energy-from-volcanoes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>El Salvador has mined 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, with power harnessed from a volcano.<\/p>\n<p>President Nayib Bukele \u2013 who has banked his political future on a nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/bitcoin\/\">bitcoin<\/a> experiment \u2013 tweeted early Friday morning that this is the country\u2019s maiden voyage into volcano-powered bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1442949756993490945\" target=\"_blank\">posted a flashy 25-second teaser video<\/a>, which includes shots of a government-branded shipping container full of bitcoin mining rigs, technicians installing and plugging in ASIC miners, as well as sweeping landscape aerials of an energy factory in the thick of a forest, bordering a volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador has mined 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, with power harnessed from a volcano. President Nayib Bukele \u2013 who has banked his political future on a nationwide bitcoin experiment \u2013 tweeted early Friday morning that this is the country\u2019s maiden voyage into volcano-powered bitcoin mining. On Tuesday, the president posted a flashy 25-second teaser [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128388","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=128388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}