{"id":19530,"date":"2021-05-23T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2021-12-14T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:55:53","slug":"foreign-policy-chia-is-a-new-way-to-waste-resources-for-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/05\/23\/foreign-policy-chia-is-a-new-way-to-waste-resources-for-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy:  Chia Is a New Way to Waste Resources for Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been assembling material for the past week for a proper post on Chia, then James Palmer from Foreign Policy pinged me to do a piece for him. And it&#8217;s up: &#8220;Chia Is a New Way to Waste Resources for Cryptocurrency.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/05\/23\/cryptocurrency-chia-waste-resources-bitcoin\/\"><em>Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it ends in a rousing call to ban cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>We <em>just<\/em> managed to get in the Hetzner ban on Chia farming and Bram Cohen&#8217;s Twitter excuse thread, as I mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/05\/22\/news-everybody-hates-chia-defi100-rugpull-china-versus-mining-china-versus-crypto\/\">yesterday&#8217;s news post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particular thanks to Shokunin from Twitter for help with details and fact-checking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/05\/23\/foreign-policy-chia-is-a-new-way-to-waste-resources-for-cryptocurrency\/foreign-policy-chia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19532\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foreign-policy-chia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foreign-policy-chia.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foreign-policy-chia-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foreign-policy-chia-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been assembling material for the past week for a proper post on Chia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2225,1150],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-chia","tag-foreign-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foreign-policy-chia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21363,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions\/21363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}