{"id":552252,"date":"2026-02-06T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=790095"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:30:36","slug":"analysts-venezuelas-oil-industry-resurgence-may-precede-a-flared-gas-bitcoin-mining-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/analysts-venezuelas-oil-industry-resurgence-may-precede-a-flared-gas-bitcoin-mining-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts: Venezuela\u2019s Oil Industry Resurgence May Precede a Flared-Gas Bitcoin Mining Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mahalo-89-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Analysts: Venezuela&#039;s Oil Industry Resurgence Might Precede a Flared Gas Bitcoin Mining Boom\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Several local mining experts agree that there is sufficient gas in the country to establish a mobile fleet of bitcoin miners directly adjacent to oil extraction operations. Estimates set the gas lost to flaring operations in the country at 13,000 cubic meters, which could be used to power bitcoin mining farms. Venezuela Might Become a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several local mining experts agree that there is sufficient gas in the country to establish a mobile fleet of bitcoin miners directly adjacent to oil extraction operations. Estimates set the gas lost to flaring operations in the country at 13,000 cubic meters, which could be used to power bitcoin mining farms. Venezuela Might Become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-552252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}