{"id":177268,"date":"2023-12-02T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-average-bitcoin-transaction-wastes-a-full-swimming-pool-of-water-scientists-say"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:22:30","slug":"the-average-bitcoin-transaction-wastes-a-full-swimming-pool-of-water-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-average-bitcoin-transaction-wastes-a-full-swimming-pool-of-water-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-average-bitcoin-transaction-wastes-a-full-swimming-pool-of-water-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies\u2019 require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that\u2019s evaporating water supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies\u2019 require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that\u2019s evaporating water supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177268","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}