{"id":596192,"date":"2026-05-08T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=812514"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:10:26","slug":"venezuela-upholds-crypto-mining-ban-as-power-demand-hits-9-year-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/venezuela-upholds-crypto-mining-ban-as-power-demand-hits-9-year-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Upholds Crypto Mining Ban as Power Demand Hits 9-Year Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mahalo-1-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Venezuela Upholds Crypto Mining Ban as Power Demand Hits 9-Year Peak\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The Venezuelan government reiterated a nationwide ban on cryptocurrency mining as the country faces an energy crisis, with demand rising to record levels. Authorities attributed this peak in consumption to the economic growth and an ongoing heat wave. Venezuela Reiterates Crypto Mining Ban, Says Illicit Mining Activities Will be Sanctioned Cryptocurrency mining, as an energy-intensive [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan government reiterated a nationwide ban on cryptocurrency mining as the country faces an energy crisis, with demand rising to record levels. Authorities attributed this peak in consumption to the economic growth and an ongoing heat wave. Venezuela Reiterates Crypto Mining Ban, Says Illicit Mining Activities Will be Sanctioned Cryptocurrency mining, as an energy-intensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596192","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\/596192","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=596192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}