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After noting the Chinese and Russians are excellent allies and have engaged in several military drills together of late, Japanese State Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, in a press interview, had this to say, “[Russian naval forces] are really exercising just right in front of the western part of Honolulu, and so I don’t want to remind the [sic] seventy years ago, but we have to be careful of the exercising of the Russians.” Russian ships just practiced sinking an aircraft carrier roughly 35 miles off of Honolulu’s coast Russia and China are engaging in a large number of military drills together

Gold that has become radioactive is not usable. Bitcoin cannot become "radioactive" .... Ok... ok.... worst case scenario; The entire world is consumed in a Nuclear war and there are no longer any power grids and the "internet" as we know it has been destroyed.... then we probably won't know the difference.

Just this week: • BNY Mellon partners with Grayscale • BoA approves Bitcoin trading futures • Square will launch Bitcoin DeFi • Fidelity will add 100 crypto employees • Visa to approve BTC debit card in Australia

The first 200,000 units will be hosted in Alberta Canada, powered by natural gas wells at an energy cost of three cents Canadian per KWH. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/15/2263800/0/en/Black-Rock-Petroleum-Company-Announces-Bitcoin-Mining-Agreement.html

Bank of France governor François Villeroy de Galhau said that Europe should make crypto regulation a priority or risk digital assets challenging its monetary sovereignty. He warned the European Union only has “one or two years” left to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. “We in Europe need to move as quickly as possible,” the governor added.

21 : Bitcoin Millions (Intangible, virtual world) + 21 (Everything tangible in the universe) ======== = 42 Any questions?

Stanley Druckenmiller Bill Miller Paul Tudor Jones Steven Cohen Alan Howard Ray Dalio Soros Fund BlackRock Guggenheim Millenium Renaissance ARK Invest All owned Bitcoin while cumbersome institutions watch. It’s probably nothing...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microstrategy-stock-rises-after-disclosing-capital-international-had-acquired-a-large-equity-stake-2021-07-09

The broke spend. The middle class save. And the wealthy invest. It’s really just that simple.

"To achieve this level of decentralization and immutability, ION is built on top of the shared database that's used for recording bitcoin transactions, which is known as the blockchain. Though Microsoft is contributing most of the work, the company would have no control over who participates in the system."

A hydroelectric plant in Mechanicville, New York, has been nominated for national engineering landmark status for being the oldest renewable energy facility in the world that's still running. The plant, which was built in 1897, still uses all of the original 1800s machinery, which is now being used to produce bitcoin. "We can actually make more money with bitcoin than selling the electricity to National Grid," said Jim Besha Sr., CEO of Albany Engineering Corp. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Mechanicville-hydro-plant-gets-new-life-16299115.php

Consumer prices edged up 0.1%, according to new CPI data. That effectively cancels out the wage growth from June. But you already knew this.....

Some people can't do the math. It's really quite simple - if you've been vaccinated, go about your life as normal. No need for a mask. I think it's a rather simple IQ test. If you're still wearing one after you're vaccinated because "How do I know if the other people are really vaccinated?", the answer is simple "It's none of your business". If you aren't vaccinated for various reasons, that's your problem - take whatever precautions you feel necessary. But if you are vaccinated, stop being weird and sticking your nose into other people's business. …

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/feds-seized-robinhood-ceos-phone-as-part-of-gamestop-trading-probe.html Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s phone was seized by federal attorneys in one of the stock-trading app company’s many legal battles, it revealed in its IPO filing on Thursday. In a section outlining legal risks from investigations and subpoenas, the company noted that “a related search warrant was executed by the USAO to obtain Mr. Tenev’s cell phone.” Here, “USAO” refers to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, which was investigating Robinhood’s restrictions on trading during the meme stock flurry around GameStop and other st…

The European Central Bank is actually headed by a convicted criminal.

That’s not in any of your charts or data. - Michael Saylor

Deputy Trade Minister: there should be a lot of cryptocurrency circulating in Indonesia rather than abroad.

Paraguay has become the second country after El Salvador to propose a bill to make Bitcoin legal tender. The bill in support of the cryptocurrency was proposed on Thursday night. Paraguay believes that it can become a crypto hub as it has a lot of cheap renewable energy. However, concerns about bitcoin mining and its environmental impact remain.

Bitcoin has now closed its third red monthly candle in a row, meaning BTC/USD is now the furthest away from its stock-to-flow model estimates in more than two years. Data shows the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell 40.36% in Q2… the biggest quarterly plunge in over three years. Plan B said the next six months will be “make or break” for the stock-to-flow model, adding: “Even for me it is always a bit uneasy when Bitcoin price is at the lower bound of the stock-to-flow model.”

Bitcoin.org has blocked U.K. visitors from downloading Bitcoin Core software, as well as the whitepaper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto. It comes days after a British court ruled in favor of self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright. He had accused Bitcoin.org and its current operator Cøbra of copyright infringement for hosting the BTC whitepaper in the U.K. Cøbra elected not to mount a defense in order to protect their anonymity — and was also ordered to pay interim legal costs of £35,000 (about $48,600.) The judgment is the latest salvo in Wright’s assault on people who dispute his claim of being Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

Dogecoin prices surged but did not skyrocket after receiving another endorsement from Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday. Musk’s first tweet declared “Release the Doge!” — sending the joke cryptocurrency up 8.42% to $0.261. A sell-off followed suit, taking DOGE/USD down to $0.247. Less than an hour later, Musk tweeted a rather unusual message that said: “Baby Doge, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, Baby Doge, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, Baby Doge, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, Baby Doge.” DOGE/USD subsequently rose 5.22% to $0.26 after the second tweet. This is modest compared with the wild gains we’ve seen after Musk’s tweets in the past.