{"id":28537,"date":"2025-05-26T03:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2025-05-26T03:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:46:44","slug":"bitcoin-gets-official-push-as-this-south-asian-nation-assigns-2000-mw-surplus-energy-for-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28537","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Gets Official Push As This South Asian Nation Assigns 2000 MW Surplus Energy For Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s finance ministry unveiled plans Sunday to assign 2000 megawatts of electricity\u00a0to power <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) mining and\u00a0artificial intelligence data centers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The move is part of the South Asian nation\u2019s strategy to harness its excess electricity for mining operations\u2014a way through which new BTC are brought into circulation, as reported by\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is being led by the\u00a0Pakistan Crypto Council, a government-backed regulatory body tasked with promoting blockchains and digital assets within the country. According to the finance ministry, the goal is to leverage surplus electricity to create high-tech job opportunities and attract foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why It Matters: <\/strong>Pakistan\u2019s energy sector has long struggled with difficulties &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/05\/45603775\/bitcoin-mining-in-pakistan-south-asian-nation-leverages-surplus-energy-to-mint-new-btc-ai-data-centers\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" gets official push as this south asian nation assigns mw surplus energy for mining>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s finance ministry unveiled plans Sunday to assign 2000 megawatts of electricity\u00a0to power Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining and\u00a0artificial intelligence data centers. What Happened: The move is part of the South Asian nation\u2019s strategy to harness its excess electricity for mining operations\u2014a way through which new BTC are brought into circulation, as reported by\u00a0Reuters. The initiative [&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-28537","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\/28537","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=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}