{"id":28428,"date":"2020-04-19T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28428"},"modified":"2020-04-19T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:29:53","slug":"do-cryptocurrencies-get-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/19\/do-cryptocurrencies-get-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Cryptocurrencies Get Sick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digiconomist.net\/bitcoin-energy-consumption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According<\/a> to <strong><em>Digiconomist\/BitCoinEnergyConsumption.com<\/em><\/strong>, and if you believe energy usage as a proxy for currency popularity is acceptable, then the answer appears to be <em>no<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28429\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=225%2C150&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-energy-consumpti.jpeg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The downward spike was on March 18, and I haven&#8217;t any good guesses why that would have occurred; the recovery appears to suggest <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> is still chugging along. Another proxy is, of course, the value of a bitcoin in US dollars, which <strong><em>BuyBitCoinWorldWide<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buybitcoinworldwide.com\/price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provides<\/a> in a time series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?resize=800%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-time-series-4-19-2020.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears more or less healthy so far, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Digiconomist\/BitCoinEnergyConsumption.com, and if you believe energy usage as a proxy for currency popularity is acceptable, then the answer appears to be no: The downward spike was on March 18, and I haven&#8217;t any good guesses why that would have occurred; the recovery appears to suggest Bitcoin is still \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/19\/do-cryptocurrencies-get-sick\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-28428","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\/28428","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=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28431,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions\/28431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}