{"id":11959,"date":"2013-12-14T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2013-12-14T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T00:59:01","slug":"massive-surge-in-litecoin-mining-leads-to-graphics-card-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11959","title":{"rendered":"Massive surge in Litecoin mining leads to graphics card shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Litecoin confirms transactions faster (every 2.5 minutes, rather than every 10 minutes for Bitcoin) and it contains more coins \u2014 84 million coins will be found in total under the LTC protocol, as opposed to 21 million for BTC. Bitcoin and Litecoin prices tend to move together; Bitcoins stratospheric leap over the past month (it\u2019s down from a high of $1200 but trading at $873 as of this writing) has created an odd situation where it\u2019s easier to mine Litecoin and then convert LTC to BTC then it is to just mine BTC to start with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/172381-massive-surge-in-litecoin-mining-leads-to-radeon-shortage\">Massive surge in Litecoin mining leads to graphics card shortage | ExtremeTech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litecoin confirms transactions faster (every 2.5 minutes, rather than every 10 minutes for Bitcoin) and it contains more coins \u2014 84 million coins will be found in total under the LTC protocol, as opposed to 21 million for BTC. Bitcoin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[742,1243,338,685],"class_list":["post-11959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-bitcoin","tag-currency-mining","tag-encryption","tag-gpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}