{"id":24382,"date":"2025-04-29T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24382"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:16:49","slug":"bitcoin-is-a-commodity-like-gold-says-commerce-secretary-lutnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24382","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is A Commodity Like Gold, Says Commerce Secretary Lutnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of Commerce <strong>Howard Lutnick<\/strong> has outlined a bold vision to position the United States as the global leader in <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) innovation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/45017261\/bitcoin-mining-costs-jump-to-137000-per-coin-when-accounting-for-non-cash-expenses-coinshares\">starting with mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In a Bitcoin Magazine exclusive interview on April 28, Lutnick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BPlnUxDblaE\">proposed<\/a> a revolutionary approach: allowing Bitcoin miners to build power plants directly at mining sites, including the ability to place data centers \u201con top of gas fields\u201d with dedicated energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>This would eliminate reliance on the broader electrical grid and enable miners to scale sustainably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to mine Bitcoin and find the right place to do it, you can build your own power plant next to it,\u201d Lutnick said.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/45076518\/bitcoin-is-a-commodity-like-gold-says-commerce-secretary-lutnick\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" is a commodity like gold says commerce secretary lutnick>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has outlined a bold vision to position the United States as the global leader in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) innovation, starting with mining. What Happened: In a Bitcoin Magazine exclusive interview on April 28, Lutnick proposed a revolutionary approach: allowing Bitcoin miners to build power plants directly at mining sites, [&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-24382","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\/24382","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=24382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}