{"id":48422,"date":"2025-09-19T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48422"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:16:30","slug":"communist-laos-looking-to-turn-extra-hydropower-into-crypto-mining-to-tackle-debt-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48422","title":{"rendered":"Communist Laos Looking To Turn Extra Hydropower Into Crypto Mining To Tackle Debt: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Southeast Asian country Laos is turning to cryptocurrency mining as a way to ease its growing debt burden and put surplus energy to use, according to a report published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laos Looking To Monetize Surplus Power Through Crypto Mining<\/h2>\n<p>Laos\u2019 aspiration to be the \u201cbattery of Southeast Asia\u201d has led to an energy surplus from its numerous hydropower projects built across the Mekong River, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3325849\/how-laos-plans-pay-its-dam-building-spree-cryptocurrency-mining\">reported <\/a>the South China Morning Post. This energy boom, however, has resulted in a significant rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elibrary.imf.org\/view\/journals\/002\/2024\/319\/article-A001-en.xml#:~:text=However%2C%20interest%20payments%20(2%20percent,been%20announced%20(Annex%20II).&amp;text=The%20authorities%20continued%20to%20receive,(2.1%20percent%20of%20GDP).\">debt<\/a>, owed mostly to Chinese loans and foreign firms that funded dam construction.<\/p>\n<p>The government is now licensing local cryptocurrency\u00a0trading platforms and mining operations,\u00a0hoping to convert the surplus energy into economic profit and reduce &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47756780\/communist-laos-looking-to-turn-extra-hydropower-into-crypto-mining-to-tackle-debt-report\" alt=\"Communist\" laos looking to turn extra hydropower into crypto mining tackle debt: report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asian country Laos is turning to cryptocurrency mining as a way to ease its growing debt burden and put surplus energy to use, according to a report published Wednesday. Laos Looking To Monetize Surplus Power Through Crypto Mining Laos\u2019 aspiration to be the \u201cbattery of Southeast Asia\u201d has led to an energy surplus from [&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-48422","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\/48422","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=48422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}