{"id":41165,"date":"2021-10-13T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41165"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:58:37","slug":"new-bitcoin-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41165","title":{"rendered":"NEW BITCOIN BOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has overtaken China as the largest bitcoin center after Beijing tamped down on cryptocurrency mining in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of August, the U.S. controlled 35.4 percent of the global hash rate \u2014 the power of computers connected to the global bitcoin network \u2014 the largest percentage of all countries, according to data published on Wednesday by Britain\u2019s Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan and Russia had the second- and third-largest hash rates, respectively, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s hash rate dropped significantly over the past few months, falling from 44 percent in May to zero in July, Reuters reported. In 2019, it had reached as high as 75 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has overtaken China as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41166,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41165\/revisions\/41166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}