{"id":207313,"date":"2024-02-23T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-dismissed-early-climate-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:41","slug":"bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-dismissed-early-climate-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-dismissed-early-climate-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto dismissed early climate concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/23162435\/SEI_192904252.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2418859 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\" Damien Loverso\/Alamy \" data-caption=\"Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Damien Loverso\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, dismissed early concerns about the potential for the cryptocurrency to consume large amounts of electricity and contribute to carbon dioxide emissions, according to newly released emails.<\/p>\n<p>The true identity of the creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/bitcoin\/\">bitcoin<\/a> has never been revealed, but after the currency\u2019s launch in January 2009, Nakamoto \u2013 a pseudonym \u2013 was active in online forums and email until late 2010, when they removed themselves from the project and dropped out of communication.<\/p>\n<p>    \u2026\n                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2418762-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-dismissed-early-climate-concerns\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto Damien Loverso\/Alamy Bitcoin\u2019s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, dismissed early concerns about the potential for the cryptocurrency to consume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342793,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207313\/revisions\/342793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}