{"id":19668,"date":"2021-09-01T04:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2021-09-01T04:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:36:52","slug":"chinas-2021-internet-sector-in-5-snapshots-from-tighter-regulations-to-bumpy-ipos-and-shifting-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=19668","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 2021 internet sector in 5 snapshots, from tighter regulations to bumpy IPOs and shifting demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBitcoin mining required so much energy that the sector would rank ninth among China\u2019s 10 biggest carbon-emitting industrial urban centres by 2024, a dubious honour that explains why the Chinese government came down so hard this year to ban the creation of the largest cryptocurrency.The use of energy-sapping computers to solve cryptographic problems to create bitcoin \u2013 known as \u201cmining\u201d \u2013 is expected to generate 131 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2024, just behind the coal-mining\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3147124\/chinas-2021-internet-sector-five-snapshots-tighter-regulations?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBitcoin mining required so much energy that the sector would rank ninth among China\u2019s 10 biggest carbon-emitting industrial urban centres by 2024, a dubious&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}