{"id":13773,"date":"2018-01-13T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T19:32:51","slug":"currency-always-has-costs-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/13\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Currency Always Has Costs, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps <strong><em>NewScientist&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> <em>Feedback<\/em> column (6 January 2018) has foreseen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23731593-000-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capstone<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/10\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">energy problem<\/a> of <em><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If this trend continues, it won\u2019t be long before someone tries to build a Dyson sphere, enveloping the entire sun, to power the trade in cryptocurrencies. Which perhaps explains why we haven\u2019t heard from any Kardashev type 2 civilisations yet \u2013 they are all busy mining bitcoin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dedication of the entire civilization to the discovery &#8211; or validation &#8211; of a currency. I&#8217;m sort of boggling at this right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps NewScientist&#8217;s Feedback column (6 January 2018) has foreseen the capstone of the energy problem of Bitcoin: If this trend continues, it won\u2019t be long before someone tries to build a Dyson sphere, enveloping the entire sun, to power the trade in cryptocurrencies. Which perhaps explains why we haven\u2019t heard \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/13\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13774,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions\/13774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}