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FYI, North Dakota has the only state owned bank A BILL for an Act to create and enact section 6-09-15.10 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to cryptocurrency custodian services and exchanges; and to provide for a legislative management report. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. Section 6-09-15.10 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows: 6 - 09 - 15.10. Cryptocurrency - Exchange - Custodian services. The Bank of North Dakota may provide custodian services for digital currency and may implement a digital currency exchange. SECTION 2. BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA - CRYPTOCURRENCY - REPORT TO INFORMA…

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today 5-y&geo=US&q=buying gold,buying bitcoin Interesting to note that when this happened in 2017, BTC was still a while away from peak.

https://investments.metlife.com/content/dam/metlifecom/us/investments/insights/research-topics/macro-strategy/pdf/MIM-GEMS-The-Blockchain-Blockbuster_Yapese-Stones-to-Central-Bank-Digital-Currencies.pdf

Ex-Canadian PM Stephen Harper has said that Bitcoin could be used as a part of a basket of reserve alternatives to the US dollar. He added that central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, were “inevitable” to some degree at one point, but it would still be subject to various monetary policies. He also expressed his concerns regarding central banks becoming “kind of a general banker” rather than just a financial monitor. https://thedailychain.com/ex-canadian-prime-ministers-says-bitcoin-could-be-a-reserve-currency/

https://ccnews24.net/miami-plans-to-allow-its-citizens-to-pay-city-taxes-in-bitcoin/ Maybe they will give incentives if you pay in bitcoin. If they end up doing that then it could be a win win situation. Miami gets bitcoin, tax payers pay less in the short term and get exposure to bitcoin. Interested to see how this plays out.

One female truck driver, she said, told her how she'd been unloading at a facility for six hours without being allowed to use the facilities — and when she asked a third time, was given a roll of toilet paper and told to go behind the building. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/truck-drivers-denied-washrooms-1.5876587?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar Why can't she just work from home like me instead of working a job that spreads the virus?!? Now let me just place this grocery delivery order... or "She should learn to code"

"I've always thought this a terrible precedent. Bodily Autonomy, the idea, that you get to decide what happens to your body, is one of the most inalienable rights I can imagine. While this does not completely negate that concept, it introduces the idea that the government now has that right, unless you assert it." comment on: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/organ-donation-nova-scotia?fbclid=IwAR0Fv4Uv48pw1GygEHZb-9dY0dkcWJJyIWPgYt9lMfv0RK5VWHYVU-xxIlI WHY DOCTORS WILL NOT LET YOU DIE IF YOU’RE A REGISTERED ORGAN DONOR THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH: A common abbreviated interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath is “First, do no harm.” In other words, the patien…

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/widespread-overseas-travel-unlikely-for-australians-in-2021/news-story/3d84c7bd3dff15b132e53ebb7e014e7c Apparently they are getting the oxford 'vaccine' (you know, the one that's only 62% effective?).

https://www.psypost.org/2021/01/entitled-people-with-low-humility-and-low-inquisitiveness-are-more-prone-to-conspiratorial-ideation-59157 Of course, not everyone who believes in conspiracy theories displays these traits. The strength of the relationships between personality traits and conspiratorial ideation were modest to weak. “A major caveat of our study is that the results are correlational, precluding causal inference. It is still unclear what temporally precedes conspiratorial ideation and what follows from it. For instance, anxious individuals may turn to conspiracy theories to find comfort but conspiracy belief may also increase anxiety. We still need to unde…

Litecoin seems to be the one that will survive alongside Bitcoin long-term. What do you think? Ethereum purchases seems to be another way to run their network... so as long as their network is running I guess it could go on.

They have been improving throughput, but transaction volume has outpaced their improvements. Coinbase specifically cited record breaking exchange volumes on Jan. 7 that were “easily 6x what had already been an elevated steady-state request rate.” https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-redoing-infrastructure-to-prevent-outages-during-peak-times

Footprints believed to have belonged to a crocodile-like prehistoric reptile have been found in the Italian Alps in an extraordinary discovery that scientists say proves there were survivors of a mass extinction 252m years ago. The first footprints were found in rocks in the area in 2008, with the scientists continuing their exploration over the following years until they had the complete set of prints needed to identify the animal. "The fossil footprints were found in a kind of very wet sediment in which they could be preserved," said Massimo Bernardi, a palaeontologist at Muse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/footprints-of-crocodile-like-pre…

(Except Gold... that is money too 😉 )

Men are a misunderstood lot, which all in all is probably for the best. Women are better off not knowing that we eat with our hands the minute they leave the room or that we use their nail clippers to trim our nose hair. Better for them, better for us. Still, it's annoying that women spend more time and money trying to understand the minds of cats than they do wondering about what makes men tick. Which is why they'll never understand...Our consuming need to own the biggest and most expensive version of just about everything.Our compulsive desire to drive off-road vehicles in cities and use corkscrews that resemble offshore drilling equipment is well documented. As marketi…

You can tell it's from a few decades ago because it doesn't mention WWII and lists the USSR as a power at the end. The width of the color blocking is relative power at that time.

The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at Christmas in England, Scotland and Wales, and other countries placing the UK on a travel ban. So how has it gone from being non-existent to the most common form of the virus in parts of England in a matter of months? The government's advisers on new infections have "moderate" confidence that it is more able to transmit than other variants. All the work is at an early stage, contains huge uncertainties and a long list of unanswered questions. As I've written before, viruses mutat…

By now, most people have heard about the "Weeger" issues in China. There are supposedly concentration camps, torture camps, medical experiments, thousands imprisoned, etc. When someone changed thousands to "for all we know, there might even be millions" the new number changed to "millions" without Western media even batting an eyelash. So here's an opinion about it, which focuses on Xinjiang Province (also known as the “Uyghur Autonomous Region”)...There’s a lot of background to this, but the basic problem is geopolitical: The US wants to sabotage the growth of China as a world power in favor of the Western model of capitalism and imperialism.What imperialist Weste…

Grab your metal detector! For several months gold and silver jewelry, ornaments, and golden nuggets have started washing up on the shore of a small Venezuelan fishing village that had been devastated by the country’s economic crisis and COVID-19. Yolman Lares was the first to find treasure on the beach in Guaca in September when he found a gold medallion with an image of the Virgin Mary. “I began to shake, I cried from joy,” Lares, 25, told The New York Times. “It was the first time something special has happened to me.” Read more: https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/mysterious-gold-jewelry-washes-up-on-venezuelan-beach/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_NRJournals ---------------------------------------------------- And men are significantly more likely than women to be vitamin D deficient. Smoking gun? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29705881/ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096695 https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/hta23020#/abstract If this is the smoking gun, it also explains why dark skinned minority populations is also getting sicker and dying more.

CDC reports nearly 300,000 more deaths in 2020 than were expected Overall, an estimated 299,028 excess deaths occurred from late January through October 3, 2020, with 198,081 (66%) excess deaths attributed to COVID-19. The largest percentage increases were seen among adults aged 25–44 years and among Hispanic or Latino persons. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm