{"id":7023,"date":"2021-06-17T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:52:55","slug":"how-cow-dung-is-helping-a-farm-power-crypto-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/how-cow-dung-is-helping-a-farm-power-crypto-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cow Dung Is Helping A Farm Power Crypto Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Philip Hughes Farm in Denbighshire, Hughes runs a cryptocurrency farm that uses powerful renewable-energy computers known as &#8220;cow muck&#8221; to create new cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is achieved through a process called anaerobic digestion, in which a large six-cylinder engine operates at 500 rpm, converting methane produced by cow dung decomposition into electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the farm is currently promoting Ethereum, they are also working on complex calculations to verify transactions and, in return, ensure that they are rewarded with the new cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57199405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farm in Denbighshire is using cow dung to create new cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}