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Quick Take

• The Block Research updates our 2019 piece on Bitcoin hash rate distribution
• Hash rate is still geographically centered in China but that will likely change given recent regulatory actions taken on by Chinese regulations
• Foundry, an American-based mining pool, has slowly started to grab market share

Recent tweets suggest Tesla CEO Elon Musk has agreed to an on-stage discussion with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an upcoming bitcoin event.

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced the airdrop last night and detailed when the bitcoin law will come into effect.

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The mining pool said as it is relocating the bitcoin miners, the suspension period will be less than 60 days.

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Quick Take

• Last month, Ninepoint Partners announced that it would “fully offset” its Canada-based bitcoin ETF.
• Here’s what that means in practice.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that it has charged a New Orleans-based cryptocurrency seller with running an unlicensed money transmitting business.

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In the future, Gemini will calculate what portions of the Bitcoin network it owns, the carbon emissions associated with it, then offset that amount.

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The UK’s Metropolitan Police said Thursday that it seized £114 million in cryptocurrency — an amount worth about $158 million — as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

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Rarible has raised a new round of funding as part of a broader bid to take non-fungible tokens to the mainstream.

The post Rarible aims to take NFTs mainstream with new funding, Layer 2 adoption appeared first on The Block.

Wall Street giant Citigroup has officially launched a new business unit dedicated to the crypto and blockchain space, according to a memo obtained by The Block. 

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