{"id":7009,"date":"2021-04-22T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2021-04-22T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:00:10","slug":"chinese-coin-miners-flock-to-new-cryptocurrency-chia-resulting-in-hard-drive-shortages-and-price-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7009","title":{"rendered":"Chinese coin miners flock to new cryptocurrency Chia resulting in hard drive shortages and price surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostGamers have been complaining for a long time about higher prices for graphics cards due to demand from people who mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum but now a new cryptocurrency that can be mined using hard drive storage space is putting a similar chokehold on supplies of this critical PC component.Unlike bitcoin, which requires massive amounts of processing power and electricity, the blockchain and transaction platform of Chia \u2013 a cryptocurrency created by Bram Cohen who is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3130683\/chinese-coin-miners-flock-new-cryptocurrency-chia-resulting-hard\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostGamers have been complaining for a long time about higher prices for graphics cards due to demand from people who mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7010,"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\/7009"}],"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=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}