{"id":661,"date":"2021-02-25T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/why-bitcoin-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-video-explainer\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:04:01","slug":"why-bitcoin-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-video-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/why-bitcoin-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-video-explainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet \u2013 video explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a year, bitcoin uses around the same about of electricity as the entire country of Norway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The digital currency is one that allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods. It is the most prominent among thousands of so-called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/cryptocurrencies\">cryptocurrencies<\/a>\u00a0and has been repeatedly reaching new records &#8211; but is it sustainable?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&#8217;s UK technology editor Alex Hern examines how exactly bitcoin uses electricity and if the environmental cost is too high<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jan\/11\/what-bitcoin-why-many-people-buy-cryptocurrency-financial-regulator\">What is bitcoin and why are so many people looking to buy it?<br \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/09\/rise-in-popularity-of-cryptocurrencies-in-worlds-conflict-zones\">Cryptocurrencies rise in popularity in world&#8217;s conflict zones<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/video\/2021\/feb\/25\/why-bitcoin-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-video-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/08c1d49a34a10de87cab2b5b37cb1cbf6289a79c\/60_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=132071712a5e79e00b1eb26ad1d6e7a0\" title=\"Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet \u2013 video explainer\" \/>In a year, bitcoin uses around the same about of electricity as the entire country of Norway.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe digital currency is one that allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods. It is the most prominent among thousands of so-called\u00a0cryptocurrencies\u00a0and has been repeatedly reaching new records &#8211; but is it sustainable?\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Guardian&#8217;s UK technology editor Alex Hern examines how exactly bitcoin uses electricity and if the environmental cost is too high<\/p>\n<p>What is bitcoin and why are so many people looking to buy it?<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrencies rise in popularity in world&#8217;s conflict zones<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a year, bitcoin uses around the same about of electricity as the entire country of Norway.\u00a0 The digital currency is one that allows people to bypass banks and traditional payment methods. It is the most prominent among thousands of so-called\u00a0cryptocurrencies\u00a0and has been repeatedly reaching new records &#8211; but is it sustainable?\u00a0 The Guardian&#8217;s UK &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/why-bitcoin-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-video-explainer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet \u2013 video explainer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":662,"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\/661"}],"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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}