{"id":4139,"date":"2018-05-18T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:04:08","slug":"leave-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4139","title":{"rendered":"Leave the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many tech trends, once something becomes mainstream it simply loses its appeal.\u00a0 I started DIY mining years ago but quickly figured out that the cost of the hardware, maintenance and most importantly my electricity bill made it a potentially high overhead experiment.<\/p>\n<p>With some many active serious investors hunting for crypto currency, the energy costs are ramping up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PIIS2542435118301776.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BitCoin costs too much energy (report May 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This report suggests that in a few short months it will no longer be feasible to mine cryptocurrency.\u00a0 Hopefully, the masses will get the heads-up and go back to what they were doing before the media hype.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4141\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4141\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/light-bulb-3104355_1920-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/light-bulb-3104355_1920-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/light-bulb-3104355_1920-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/light-bulb-3104355_1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/light-bulb-3104355_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptocurrency cost on the rise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many tech trends, once something becomes mainstream it simply loses its appeal.\u00a0 I started DIY mining years ago but quickly figured out that the cost of the hardware, maintenance and most importantly my electricity bill made it a potentially high overhead experiment. With some many active serious investors hunting for crypto currency, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=4139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leave the Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,14,60,55],"tags":[130,91,71],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-gaming","category-manhood","category-person_data_protection","tag-destructive","tag-fools-gold","tag-weakness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}