{"id":129320,"date":"2021-10-21T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/el-salvador-officially-starts-mining-bitcoin-using-power-from-an-actual-volcano"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:50:49","slug":"el-salvador-officially-starts-mining-bitcoin-using-power-from-an-actual-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/el-salvador-officially-starts-mining-bitcoin-using-power-from-an-actual-volcano","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Officially Starts Mining Bitcoin Using Power From an Actual Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/el-salvador-officially-starts-mining-bitcoin-using-power-from-an-actual-volcano2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The volcano bitcoin mining is also super eco-friendly: 3.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>El Salvador has officially begun to mine Bitcoin using the power harnessed from an honest-to-god volcano \u2014 and the so-called \u201cvolcanode\u201d has already made 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1443830930997719044\" class=\"\">according to a tweet by president Nayib Bukele<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still testing and installing, but this is officially the first Bitcoin mining from the volcanode,\u201d Bukele wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Relying on green geothermal energy to mine Bitcoin makes a lot of sense given that the process is extremely power intensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volcano bitcoin mining is also super eco-friendly: 3. El Salvador has officially begun to mine Bitcoin using the power harnessed from an honest-to-god volcano \u2014 and the so-called \u201cvolcanode\u201d has already made 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269, according to a tweet by president Nayib Bukele. \u201cWe\u2019re still testing and installing, but this is officially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129320","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}