{"id":40378,"date":"2022-01-07T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-bitcoin-internet-shutdown"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:31:13","slug":"kazakhstan-internet-shutdown-deals-blow-to-global-bitcoin-mining-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40378","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unrest in the central Asian country \u2013 the second-largest centre for mining of the cryptocurrency \u2013 led to an internet blackout<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about\">\u2022 <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about\">Kazakhstan unrest: what are the protests about?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The global computing power of the bitcoin network has dropped sharply as the shutdown this week of Kazakhstan\u2019s internet during a deadly uprising hit the country\u2019s fast-growing cryptocurrency mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan became last year the world\u2019s second-largest centre for bitcoin mining after the United States, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, after China clamped down on crypto mining activity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-bitcoin-internet-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrest in the central Asian country \u2013 the second-largest centre for mining of the cryptocurrency \u2013 led to an internet blackout\u2022 Kazakhstan unrest: what are the protests about?The global computing power of the bitcoin network has dropped sharply as the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[309,310,262,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40378\/revisions\/40379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}