{"id":22478,"date":"2025-04-17T06:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22478"},"modified":"2025-04-17T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:16:38","slug":"bhutan-flexes-hydropower-for-bitcoin-mining-explores-sale-of-green-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22478","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan Flexes Hydropower For Bitcoin Mining, Explores Sale Of &#8216;Green&#8217; Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bhutan is contemplating the use of its hydropower resources for <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) mining to stimulate its economy without compromising its environmental goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>:\u00a0 In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, <strong>Ujjwal\u00a0Deep Dahal<\/strong>, CEO of Bhutan\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, <strong>Druk Holding and Investments Ltd.<\/strong>, revealed the Himalayan nation\u2019s intentions for green cryptocurrency mining, referring to coins produced using clean and renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Dahal said that each digital coin mined in Bhutan using hydropower effectively \u201coffsets\u201d a coin mined using fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44621245\/gold-backed-cryptos-match-yellow-metals-highs-following-trumps-liberation-day-shock\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44831018\/cathie-wood-declares-financial-services-revolution-after-data-shows-decentralized-finance-surpassing-traditional-banking-system\"><strong>Cathie Wood Calls It \u2018Financial Services Revolution\u2019 After Ark Analyst Highlights DeFi\u2019s Dominance Over Traditional Banking System<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, the sovereign wealth fund, which controls Bhutan\u2019s only power generation &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44856786\/bhutan-flexes-hydropower-for-bitcoin-mining-explores-sale-of-green-coins\" alt=\"Bhutan\" flexes hydropower for bitcoin mining explores sale of coins>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan is contemplating the use of its hydropower resources for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining to stimulate its economy without compromising its environmental goals. What Happened:\u00a0 In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Ujjwal\u00a0Deep Dahal, CEO of Bhutan\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, Druk Holding and Investments Ltd., revealed the Himalayan nation\u2019s intentions for green cryptocurrency mining, referring [&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-22478","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\/22478","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=22478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}