{"id":193904,"date":"2024-08-02T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quantum-computers-could-slash-the-energy-use-of-cryptocurrencies"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:23:10","slug":"quantum-computers-could-slash-the-energy-use-of-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quantum-computers-could-slash-the-energy-use-of-cryptocurrencies","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computers could slash the energy use of cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-could-slash-the-energy-use-of-cryptocurrencies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could be done using quantum computers, cutting their electricity use by 90 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/alex-wilkins\/\" class=\"\">Alex Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could be done using quantum computers, cutting their electricity use by 90 per cent. By Alex Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,1761,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193904","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=193904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}