{"id":203143,"date":"2025-01-05T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-at-stanford-have-discovered-a-revolutionary-new-way-to-mine-bitcoin-it-is-essential-to-empower-real-people"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:27:55","slug":"researchers-at-stanford-have-discovered-a-revolutionary-new-way-to-mine-bitcoin-it-is-essential-to-empower-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-at-stanford-have-discovered-a-revolutionary-new-way-to-mine-bitcoin-it-is-essential-to-empower-real-people","title":{"rendered":"Researchers at Stanford have discovered a revolutionary new way to mine bitcoin: \u2018It is essential to empower real people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rRAWY-3BBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Stanford University has found a unique way to mine bitcoin that could have a massive impact on the perceptions of the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>According to its <a href=\"https:\/\/minepi.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, Pi Network was designed in part to make the process of mining bitcoin significantly less energy-intensive.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency mining is a controversial practice in part because it remains largely unregulated. It uses massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-business\/bitcoin-mining-environmental-impact-sustainable\/\">amounts of power<\/a> that frequently comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/dirty-energy-fossil-fuel-sources\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"73\" title=\"79% of all power comes from 'dirty energy' sources &mdash; here's why experts are calling it a 'fueling failure'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dirty energy<\/a> sources such as gas and coal as well as massive amounts of water to help keep its server banks cool and functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Stanford University has found a unique way to mine bitcoin that could have a massive impact on the perceptions of the cryptocurrency. According to its website, Pi Network was designed in part to make the process of mining bitcoin significantly less energy-intensive. Cryptocurrency mining is a controversial practice in part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,1497,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-energy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203143","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=203143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}