{"id":78321,"date":"2021-05-25T01:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78321"},"modified":"2021-05-25T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:00:13","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2021\/elon-musk-says-he-talked-to-north-american-bitcoin-miners-sending-bitcoin-price-surging.html","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he talked to \u2018North American Bitcoin miners,\u2019 sending bitcoin price surging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The price of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.BS=-USS\">bitcoin<\/a> jumped about 4% Monday afternoon after <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was having active discussions regarding the sustainability of the digital coin. Bitcoin was trading around $38,074, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">Coindesk<\/a>, when at about 3:42 p.m. ET Musk posted on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TWTR\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>: \u201cSpoke with North American Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/24\/bitcoin-price-soars-after-elon-musk-tweet-on-sustainability-efforts.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The price of bitcoin jumped about 4% Monday afternoon after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was having active discussions regarding the sustainability of the digital coin. Bitcoin was trading around $38,074, according to Coindesk, when at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78322,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78321\/revisions\/78322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}