{"id":8126,"date":"2021-07-09T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:47:37","slug":"chia-crypto-could-be-a-greener-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/chia-crypto-could-be-a-greener-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Chia Crypto Could Be A Greener Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chia crypto is one of the recently launched cryptocurrencies that many consider &#8220;green,&#8221; because Chia Mining is based on the amount of hard disk space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are primarily based on computing power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Chia relies on disk space, it should be noted that it has attracted a lot of miners who have tried everything they can in an effort to earn more from mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with high demand and limited supply, inventory prices soon rose as storage space became scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another aspect of the Chia cryptocurrency is that it wears out consumer-friendly SSDs during the plot creation process, forcing storage device providers to change their warranty and refund policies.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/exbibyte-frenzy-how-mining-for-chia-crypto-turned-me-into-a-storage-junkie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chia crypto is one of the recently launched cryptocurrencies that many consider &#8220;green,&#8221; because Chia Mining is based on the amount of hard disk space.<\/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-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","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=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}