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According to data from CB Insights, in the first quarter of this year, 129 startups focusing on blockchain digital technology around the world raised a total of approximately US$2.6 billion, surpassing the entire year of 2020. In 2020, startups in this field had raised $2.3 billion in 341 venture capital investments. 　　 This growth was driven by several rounds of large-scale financing of startups, including crypto lender BlockFi, game developer Dapper Labs, and crypto wallet provider Blockchain

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Today, March 28, 2021, just missed being Easter Sunday. Rules of the Gregorian Calendar (begun in 1582) place Easter on the first Sunday AFTER the first Full Moon AFTER the March Equinox. Full Moon occurs today, not yesterday, so Easter must wait another week.

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The first Bitcoin mining pool powered exclusively by clean energy has been formed. London-listed Argo and DMG will combine their computational power to create the Terra Pool.

Spetalen believes BTC could serve as the base layer for a new financial architecture.

“The money will start coming in early next month,” Mike @Novogratz

Paul confirmed Gutmann’s disclosure, mentioning that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek was certainly a Bitcoin investor. In a recent tweet , Paul distinguished the approaching ingress of sovereign wealth funds into the crypto domain as a “wall of money.” As per Gutmann, investors are re-evaluating their portfolios. He said: “If you look at the world today on a forward basis, it is reasonable to be asking yourself as an investment committee or as an allocation committee [if] having all of [their] assets denominated in dollars against dollar-denominated liabilities is the right allocation mix.”

https://decrypt.co/56058/visa-could-add-crypto-payments-network-says-ceo In Visa’s fiscal Q1 2021 earnings call yesterday (via The Motley Fool), Kelly took a moment out of his introductory statement to specifically touch on crypto and the opportunity he sees in the space. He detailed Visa’s case for being the largest financial services brand in the industry via its partnerships with 35 platforms and wallets “In this space, we see ways that we can add differentiated value to the ecosystem,” said Kelly. “And we believe that we are uniquely positioned to help make cryptocurrencies more safe, useful and applicable for payments through our global presence, our partne…

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According to a recent report from Reuters, General Motors joins a growing list of major companies investigating regular implementation of the popular cryptocurrency. Last month, during GM’s Q4 2020 earnings call, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said that the automaker had no plans to invest in bitcoin, but would continue to evaluate whether further interest was warranted. “We don’t have any plans to invest in bitcoin, so full stop there,” Barra said when asked about GM’s interest in the cryptocurrency. “This is something we’ll monitor, and we’ll evaluate, and if there’s strong customer demand for it in the future, there’s nothing that precludes us from doing that.…

https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB230/2021 The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, has signed a bill meant to incentivize cryptocurrency miners to set up shop in the state into law. The new law “provides sales and use tax exemptions on the tangible personal property directly used and the electricity used in commercial mining of cryptocurrency” and amends the state’s utility gross receipts license tax “to exempt electricity used or consumed in the commercial mining of cryptocurrency.”

Mark 13: 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

In case you needed another reason to care about the climate crisis, it has been found that pollution is causing human penises to shrink. A leading epidemiologist and environmental scientist has published a book which examines the link between industrial chemicals and penile length. Dr Shanna Swan's book, Count Down, argues that our modern world is altering humans' reproductive development and threatening the future of our species. The book outlines how pollution is leading to higher rates of erectile dysfunction, fertility decline, and growing numbers of babies born with small penises. Though the headline fact about shrinkage may sound like a laughing matte…

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