 that China controls two-thirds of Bitcoin’s hash rate?
Reggie Fowler, the Arizona businessman in the midst of the Crypto Capital scandal, is running low on cash. His lawyers have decided they don’t do pro bono work, so now they want to drop him as a client.
EY, the trustee handling the bankruptcy for failed Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, released its 7th Report of the Monitor on Nov. 5.
According to the report, EY has received 17,053 claims totaling somewhere between CA$224 million and CA$290 million—depending on what exchange rate EY ends up using to convert the USD and crypto claims to Canadian dollars for disbursement.
Gary Gensler has been picked to lead President-elect Joe Biden’s financial reform transition team. As Foreign Policy notes, Gensler, who was the head of the CFTC during the Obama years, is an aggressive regulator.
Libra Shrugged author David Gerard said in a tweet that Gensler was excellent in the Libra hearing last July. Gensler also “helped clean up the 2008 financial crisis, he knows literally all the possible nonsense,” said Gerard.
Clearly, this is good news for bitcoin.
Nov. 15 — Before I said that OKEx offered the only fiat-to-crypto on/off ramp in China. That is inaccurate. P2P OTC exchanges *in general* are the only fiat on/off ramps for crypto traders in China and have been since Sept. 2017.
Nov. 16 — Previously, this story stated that Quadriga’s trustee has CA$30 million available to distribute to claimants. It’s been updated to correctly reflect that EY has CA$39 million (US$30 million) to distribute.
Flemish And North French Dunes Restoration is a joint nature restoration project of the Agency for nature and forests of the Flemish Government, the Conservatoire de l’Espace Littoral et des Rivages lacustres and the Département du Nord for the coastal dunes between Dunkerque (France) and Westende (Belgium), that is co-financed by the European Union.
On Friday 14 February 2020, on the Franco-Belgian border between Adinkerke and Ghyvelde, the memorandum of understanding for the protection and management of the cross-border dune belts between Dunkirk (France) and Westende (Belgium) was signed by the representatives of the Agency for Nature and Forest of the Flemish Government, the French State, the Conservatoire du Littoral and the Département du Nord, in the presence of more than 50 spectators. The LIFE+Nature project FLANDRE ends on 1 March 2020, but the signing of the memorandum ensures the continuation and consolidation of the cooperation between the 4 partners mentioned above with the ultimate aim of improving nature and the experience of nature in a single cross-border European protected nature park.
In the future, the partnership could be extended to include even more interested public authorities.
© Marc Leten: the signatories, from left to right: Mathias Bigorgne (Deputy Director, Conservatoire du Littoral), Patrick Valois (Vice-President Conseil départemental du Nord), Stefan Borry (Head of the Site Management Division of the Agency for Nature and Forests, Flemish Region) and Matthieu Dewas (Deputy Regional Director, DREAL, for the French State), flanked by project coordinator Jean-Louis Herrier (ANB).
This is a last chance to visit the exhibition, because the LIFE+ Nature project FLANDRE ends on 1 March 2020!
Successful European Natura 2000 & Life day 2019 in Adinkerke-Ghyvelde!
Photo Reinhardt Strubbe: the group of participants at the departure of the guided walk from the Café Perroquet 23.
Some 45 enthusiastic Belgian and French participants took part in the cross-border visit to the "fossil dunes" of Adinkerke and Ghyvelde that was organised by the LIFE+ FLANDRE partnership on 21 May 2019 as contribution to the European Natura 2000 & Life Day. During the excursion among others blossoming Early Marsh orchid, calling Natterjack toads, Partridge, Lapwing, Stonechat (LIFE+ FLANDRE mascot!), Meadow pipit, Nightingale, Marsh harrier, Long-eared Owl, Red Wood Ant and Nathusius’ Pipistrelle were observed!
Photo Reinhardt Strubbe: The column of participants walking from the Dune fossile de Ghyvelde (France) to the Domain Cabour in Adinkerke (Belgium).
On 12, 13 and 14 June 2018, 143 dune experts from 13 European countries gathered at the premises of the Université du Littoral - Côte d'Opale (ULCO, Dunkirk, France) to examine the measures needed to protect and restore biodiversity and the natural processes of coastal dunes and sandy beaches. This workshop was organised by the three partners of the LIFE+ Nature “FLANDRE” project in collaboration with the ULCO - Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences. You will find the book of abstracts, the excursions guide, the report of the sessions and excursions, all the presentations and finally the press release with the conclusions of the workshop through the following link: https://www.bosplus.be/nl/lifeflandre.
In November 2013 46 (27 French and 19 Belgian) representatives of concerned public authorities, scientific institutes, and non-governmental conservation organisations were invited to join the advisory committee of the LIFE+12 Nature project ‘FLANDRE’. 44 (27 French and 17 Belgian) persons accepted to join the committee. The first meeting of that advisory committee took place on the 7th May 2014 at Zuydcoote (France), the second on the 11th December 2015 at Koksijde (Belgium), the third on the 9th November 2016 as well as the fourth on the 13th of December 2017 at Zuydcoote again, and the fifth on 12th December 2018 at De Panne (Belgium). On the 29 January 2020, the Advisory Committee of the LIFE+ Nature project FLANDRE met for the 6th time, this time in Bray-Dunes (France). During the morning, the final reports of the studies "Masterplan" (action A1&2), "Impact of the project on the local economy and ecosystem services" (action D1&2), monitoring of the effects of the concrete habitat restoration measures in the French dune domains on the vegetation (D4-D5), the populations of Close-crested Snail (D6) and Crested newt (D7) were explained by the mandate-holders to the 28 members of the Advisory Committee present. The overall final state of progress of the project was also presented and approved. In the afternoon, under direction of Bénédicte Lemaire (Département du Nord) and Gwénaële Melenec (Conservatoire du Littoral), site visits were made to respectively the "Dune du Perroquet" (where among other things thickets were removed) and to one of the most recent land purchases by the Conservatoire du Littoral, a 2.9 ha domain in the southern dune-polder transition zone of the "Dune fossile de Ghyvelde", where an empty house will be demolished for the purpose of restoring nature. After the completion of the LIFE+ Nature project FLANDRE on 1 March 2020, the work of the Advisory Committee will continue in implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 14 February 2020.
LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental, conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of the EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. Since 1992 LIFE has co-financed some 4.171 projects, contributing approximately 3.4 billion euros to the protection of the environment and climate.Well, that's easy: No physical/chemical properties change whatsoever. It's just a vibrating bowl of water. Ordinary resonance phenomena. If you stop and then start again, the bowl will still be resonating to some degree, making it easer and faster to 'find' the resonant modes again. 

I'm not quite sure you've quite fathomed the vast difference in scale between the molecular level and the everyday level. The molecules in the water are moving around randomly with an average speed of about 1500 meters per second. The kinetic energy of your vibrations are essentially negligible at the molecular scale. Which is why the temperature doesn't increase by much.Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be shown a short story with a beginning, two potential middles, and an ending. Your job is to choose the middle statement that makes the story incoherent / implausible by indicating 1 or 2 in the output. If both sentences are plausible, pick the one that makes less sense.

Beginning: Mark wasn't feeling very well. Middle 1: Mark went to the doctor and was given a prescription. Middle 2: Mark went to the doctor and was given a death sentence. Ending: Mark got the medicine he needed and felt better in two days.
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