{"id":2445,"date":"2021-01-18T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:22:07","slug":"2445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/18\/2445\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-reportedly-seizes-45k-bitcoin-083734251.html\">\u201cIran Reportedly Seizes 45K Bitcoin Mining Machines After Closure of Illegal Operations,\u201d<\/a> Sebastian Sinclair, Yahoo Finance, January 18, 2021.\u00a0 And a similar article reminding us that you reap what you sow\u2014bitcoin production added to brownouts and blackouts.\u00a0 \u201cThe Iranian police have confiscated some 45,000 bitcoin mining machines that were illegally using subsidized electricity.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/18012021-iran-seizes-thousands-of-illicit-bitcoin-mining-machines\">\u201cIran Seizes Thousands Of Illicit Bitcoin Mining Machines,&#8221;<\/a> January 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-01\/18\/c_139675477.htm\">\u201cIran buys 16.8 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX: report,\u201d<\/a> Xinhua, January 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how Russia seems to have Iran\u2019s back in this article, only criticizing Israel for the conflict in Syria, and not asking anything of Iran.\u00a0 This is one of the factors not resulting in Iran acting as a normal country.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/russias-fm-syria-must-not-be-an-israel-iran-battlefield-655856\">\u201cRussia&#8217;s FM: Syria must not be an Israel-Iran battlefield,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It is fine for Al Thani to call for discussions, but will Qatar or Iran actually be willing to give anything up?\u00a0 The basis for this call by Qatar is the recent partial reconciliation with Saudi Arabia in which Qatar gave up nothing according to media accounts.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-18\/qatar-says-it-s-time-gulf-arabs-start-talks-with-iran\">\u201cQatar Says It\u2019s Time Gulf Arabs Start Talks with Iran,\u201d<\/a> Simone Foxman, Bloomberg, January 18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Reportedly Seizes 45K Bitcoin Mining Machines After Closure of Illegal Operations,\u201d Sebastian Sinclair, Yahoo Finance, January 18, 2021.\u00a0 And a similar article reminding us that you reap what you sow\u2014bitcoin production added to brownouts and blackouts.\u00a0 \u201cThe Iranian police have confiscated some 45,000 bitcoin mining machines that were illegally using subsidized electricity.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/01\/18\/2445\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}