{"id":22094,"date":"2025-04-15T06:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22094"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:01:52","slug":"bhutan-pm-says-bitcoin-mining-simple-strategic-choice-for-governments-himalayan-kingdom-uses-crypto-to-reduce-brain-drain-from-civil-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22094","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan PM Says Bitcoin Mining &#8216;Simple Strategic Choice&#8217; For Governments, Himalayan Kingdom Uses Crypto To Reduce Brain-Drain From Civil Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bhutan\u2019s prime minister backed government involvement in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) mining, stating that it could be a strategic decision with potential billion-dollar returns, according to a media report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2025\/4\/14\/bitcoin-king-why-is-bhutan-betting-on-crypto#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20Bhutanese%20government,civil%20servants%20quitting%20their%20jobs.\">interview <\/a>with Al Jazeera, <strong>Tshering Tobgay<\/strong> revealed that the utilization of the country\u2019s excess hydropower energy during the summer months for Bitcoin mining made \u201ctremendous sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just a simple strategic choice that many people have made and earned billions of dollars, and I think governments should do it,&#8221;  Tobgay added, emphasizing the potential of Bitcoin as an economic resource.<\/p>\n<p>Citing analysts, the report noted that Bitcoin mining was one of the few industries that could allow Bhutan to grow its economy while aligning with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44805594\/bhutans-bitcoin-bet-prime-minister-explains-how-crypto-curbed-civil-service-exodus\" alt=\"Bhutan\" pm says bitcoin mining strategic choice for governments himalayan kingdom uses crypto to reduce brain-drain from civil services>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan\u2019s prime minister backed government involvement in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining, stating that it could be a strategic decision with potential billion-dollar returns, according to a media report on Monday. What Happened: During an interview with Al Jazeera, Tshering Tobgay revealed that the utilization of the country\u2019s excess hydropower energy during the summer months for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-22094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}