{"id":2277,"date":"2021-08-17T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2021-08-17T23:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:26:41","slug":"crypto-miners-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/crypto-miners-west-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Miners + West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Argo Blockchain, a Canadian cryptocurrency mining company, built a facility in Dickens County, Texas. Population 2300. The reason: Available cheap energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Texas has a deregulated energy market, &#8220;which means customers can choose between different power providers and providers are thus incentivized to provide low rates.&#8221; This translates to long term contracts at low rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? If Texas adopts market reforms will these contracts be impacted? Miners consider themselves a virtual power plant based on their power agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/17\/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-mining-texas\">The Guardian | Why bitcoin entrepreneurs are flocking to rural Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Argo Blockchain, a Canadian cryptocurrency mining company, built a facility in Dickens County, Texas. Population 2300. The reason: Available cheap energy. Why is this important? Texas has a deregulated energy market, &#8220;which means customers can choose between different power providers and providers are thus incentivized to provide low rates.&#8221; This translates to long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}