{"id":40367,"date":"2025-08-04T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40367"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:01:50","slug":"bitcoin-mining-with-nuclear-energy-french-lawmakers-are-considering-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40367","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining With Nuclear Energy? French Lawmakers Are Considering It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>France\u2019s far-right political bloc is pushing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/bitcoin-mining\">ambitious plan to mine<\/a> <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) using excess energy generated by the country&#8217;s nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The initiative, led by Rassemblement National (RN) lawmakers, marks a striking turn from the party&#8217;s prior hostility toward cryptocurrencies, and signals a broader ideological shift within European digital asset politics, according to a local news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/07\/30\/how-france-s-far-right-is-betting-on-cryptocurrencies_6743899_5.html\">report<\/a> published on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>During a March visit to the Flamanville nuclear facility, party leader <strong>Marine Le Pen<\/strong> endorsed the idea of using surplus electricity to power Bitcoin mining operations. <\/p>\n<p>The plan would place high-performance computing rigs directly at nuclear sites, converting idle energy into freshly minted Bitcoin, now valued at over \u20ac100,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a secure and highly profitable solution,&#8221; said RN lawmaker <strong>Aur\u00e9lien Lopez-Liguori<\/strong>, who is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/46831607\/bitcoin-mining-with-nuclear-energy-french-lawmakers-are-considering-it\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" mining with nuclear energy french lawmakers are considering it>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s far-right political bloc is pushing an ambitious plan to mine Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) using excess energy generated by the country&#8217;s nuclear power plants. What Happened: The initiative, led by Rassemblement National (RN) lawmakers, marks a striking turn from the party&#8217;s prior hostility toward cryptocurrencies, and signals a broader ideological shift within European digital asset [&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-40367","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\/40367","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=40367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}