{"id":887903,"date":"2024-12-16T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=887903"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T04:00:06","slug":"rolling-blackouts-plague-iran-and-some-suspect-bitcoin-mining-may-have-role-in-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/16\/rolling-blackouts-plague-iran-and-some-suspect-bitcoin-mining-may-have-role-in-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling blackouts plague Iran and some suspect bitcoin mining may have role in outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Dec 13 (AP) Iran&#8217;s capital and outlying provinces have faced rolling power blackouts for weeks in October and November, with electricity cuts disrupting people&#8217;s lives and businesses. And while several factors are likely involved, some suspect cryptocurrency mining has played a role in the outages.<\/p>\n<p>Iran economy has been hobbled for years by international sanctions over its advancing nuclear programme. The country&#8217;s fuel reserves have plummeted, with the government selling off more to cover budget shortfalls as wars rage in the Middle East and Tehran grapples with mismanagement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Dec 13 (AP) Iran&#8217;s capital and outlying provinces have faced rolling power blackouts for weeks in October and November, with electricity cuts disrupting people&#8217;s lives and businesses. And while several factors are likely involved, some suspect cryptocurrency mining has played a role in the outages. Iran economy has been hobbled for years by international sanctions over its advancing nuclear programme. The country&#8217;s fuel reserves have plummeted, with the government selling off more to cover budget shortfalls as wars rage in the Middle East and Tehran grapples with mismanagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}