{"id":2661,"date":"2022-09-21T23:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2022-09-21T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:48:34","slug":"green-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/green-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening?  Ethereum management is pivoting. Pivoting green. Pivoting to clean emissions. Atheneum&#8217;s new management will slash its carbon emissions by 99.95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Ethereum is moving from blockchain to Beacon chain. Blockchain uses a \u00a0\u201cproof of work\u201d model\u00a0and Beacon chain uses a &#8220;\u201cproof of stake\u201d model that uses less energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Whether this impacts more crypto will depend upon whether crypto-miners redirect their tech to produce other currencies instead. &#8220;Peter Howson, a professor of international development at the U.K.\u2019s Northumbria University, says a successful merge for Ethereum could encourage regulators to crack down on other crypto systems\u2019 careless energy use.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corporateknights.com\/leadership\/ethereum-goes-green-overnight\/\">Corporate Knights | Now that Ethereum has gone green, will regulators make other crypto follow suit?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Ethereum management is pivoting. Pivoting green. Pivoting to clean emissions. Atheneum&#8217;s new management will slash its carbon emissions by 99.95%. Why is this important? Ethereum is moving from blockchain to Beacon chain. Blockchain uses a \u00a0\u201cproof of work\u201d model\u00a0and Beacon chain uses a &#8220;\u201cproof of stake\u201d model that uses less energy. How [&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-2661","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\/2661","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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}