{"id":1623,"date":"2021-05-26T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/new-cryptocurrency-chia-blamed-for-hard-drive-shortages\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:49:45","slug":"new-cryptocurrency-chia-blamed-for-hard-drive-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/new-cryptocurrency-chia-blamed-for-hard-drive-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"New cryptocurrency Chia blamed for hard drive shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculators buy up vital components as demand surges for rival to bitcoin that requires huge storage space<\/p>\n<p>A new cryptocurrency is being blamed for shortages of hard drives and other storage systems, as speculatorsbuy up critical components in anticipation of a price rise.<\/p>\n<p>Chia is the creation of Bram Cohen, the entrepreneur behind the BitTorrent file-sharing system. It aims to improve on more popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum by removing the incentives to burn massive amounts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/26\/new-cryptocurrency-chia-blamed-for-hard-drive-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2a4b616e0a10aa829c11717b0c4299a36ce91a3\/0_325_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4edce8087d68282dc62e2b4baba0fc03\" title=\"New cryptocurrency Chia blamed for hard drive shortages\" \/>Speculators buy up vital components as demand surges for rival to bitcoin that requires huge storage space<br \/>\nA new cryptocurrency is being blamed for shortages of hard drives and other storage systems, as speculatorsbuy up critical components in anticipation of a price rise.<br \/>\nChia is the creation of Bram Cohen, the entrepreneur behind the BitTorrent file-sharing system. It aims to improve on more popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum by removing the incentives to burn massive amounts of electricity. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculators buy up vital components as demand surges for rival to bitcoin that requires huge storage space A new cryptocurrency is being blamed for shortages of hard drives and other storage systems, as speculatorsbuy up critical components in anticipation of a price rise. Chia is the creation of Bram Cohen, the entrepreneur behind the BitTorrent &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/new-cryptocurrency-chia-blamed-for-hard-drive-shortages\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New cryptocurrency Chia blamed for hard drive shortages<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}