When Bitcoin Was At $5K, This Small Asian Country Took To Mining: Now, It's Paying Off
Bhutan‘s investment arm Druk Holding and Investments, or DHI, has reportedly been mining Bitcoin BTC/USD for a “few years” in an effort to diversify the country’s portfolio. What Happened: The CEO of DHI, Ujjwal Deep Dahal, said that mining Bitcoin was part of a long-term investment strategy for…#dhi #bitcoinbtcusd #dhiujjwaldeepdahal #bhutanese #bhutan #usdcoinusdcusd #apexcrypto (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Kingdom Of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin For Years
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Source: Reuters: Health - May 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Inside Bhutan ’s secretive Bitcoin mining operation
The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan has never been a stranger to Bitcoin. Still, the latest bombshell report from Forbes shed light on the scope of the Kingdom’s secretive mining operation. The Kingdom itself upended an investigation into Bhutan’s alleged mining scheme when it confirmed to a local…#himalayan #bhutan #bitcoin #kingdom #btc #departmentofrevenue #customs #ministryoffinance #dhi #chart (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Kingdom Of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin For Years
The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments. Beneath the Himalayas, rivers fed by ancient glaciers supply the tiny kingdom of Bhutan with immense stores of hydroelectricity. The renewable…#himalayan #himalayas #bhutan #elsalvador #bhutanese #bitdeer #wujihan #singapore #neitherbitdeer #corescientific (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bhutan Bought Millions in Bitcoin and Other Cryptos
Bhutan has been secretly investing in cryptocurrencies, according to new bankruptcy filings. Bhutan, the isolated Himalayan kingdom, has quietly invested millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, over the past year. Forbes has reviewed the bankruptcy filings of BlockFi…#bhutan #himalayan #blockfi #celcius #dhi #usdc #dhiujjwaldeepdahal #bhutanboughtmillions #cryptos #beincrypto (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bhutan ’s sovereign investment arm quietly invests millions in crypto: Report
The Kingdom of Bhutan’s sovereign investment arm, estimated to manage around $2.9 billion in assets, has placed millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies and was a customer of bankrupt crypto firms BlockFi and Celsius. Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), a commercial arm of the royal government of…#kingdomofbhutans #bhutan #dhi #blockfi #ujjwaldeepdahal #chapter11 #cryptowendy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kingdom of Bhutan secretly invests millions in Bitcoin
The landlocked Himalayan country of Bhutan has been said to be secretly investing millions of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. The bankruptcies of lenders BlockFi and Celsius have made the company’s investments public, which had previously been kept secret from the general…#bhutan #ftx #voyager #druk #thimphu #blockfi #usdcoin #drukprojectfund #bitcoinethereum #finbold (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Crypto Market Forecast: Week of April 17th 2023
A curated weekly summary of forward-focused crypto news that matters. This week, Bitcoin surges as Montana passes a "right to mine" bill, a CBDC for International Central Banks is set to be launched, and court documents reveal the Bhutan Investment...#montana #bhutaninvestment (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Workers at anti-poverty World Bank struggle to pay bills
Andre Blount has been serving food to dignitaries at World Bank headquarters for nearly 10 years and says he has gotten exactly one raise -- for 50 cents. This week, as leaders from around the world are in D.C for the spring meeting of the poverty-fighting organization, Blount and his coworkers…#andreblount #worldbank #ladleandcrust #tabouli #bhutan #srilanka #blount #uniteherelocal23 #compass #davidtheis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Japan proposes industrial hub in Bangladesh with links to northeast India
Japan has proposed developing an industrial hub in Bangladesh, with supply chains to landlocked northeastern states in India and to Nepal and Bhutan beyond, by developing a port and transport in the region, officials said Tuesday. The move comes after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to India…#nepal #bhutan #fumiokishida #bayofbengal #matarbari #faq (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Seattle banned caste discrimination
Nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S., most of whom trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, according to the group South Asian Americans Leading Together. In many of these communities, a 3,000-year-old social hierarchical system known as caste is…#southasians #bhutan #nepal #pakistan #srilanka #southasian #seattle #nicoleellis #gauravpathania #pathania (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food Industry Exposes Five Billion People to Toxic Chemicals that Kill
Industrially produced trans fat is responsible for up to 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year, according to WHO. Credit: Shutterstock.By Baher KamalMADRID, Feb 10 2023 (IPS) The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera.
“Trans fat is a toxic chemical that kills, and should have no place in food,” warns Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), informi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Food and Agriculture Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
PhonePe taps cross-border UPI payments in revenue push
Indians traveling to many foreign markets including the UAE and Singapore may soon be able to use the popular UPI payments to make purchases when they land there. Bengaluru-headquartered fintech giant PhonePe said on Tuesday that it’s extending support for UPI international payments in the UAE,…#indians #uae #singapore #upi #bengaluru #phonepe #mauritius #nepal #bhutan #npci (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As N...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
