【美众议院通过军援法案】
美国众议院议长 Mike Johnson 向媒体发表讲话，华盛顿特区。4月20日，美国众议院罕见在周六表决通过4项法案，主要内容包括向乌克兰提供608.4亿美元、向以色列提供260亿美元以及向中国台湾和印太地区提供81.2亿美元军事援助，制裁伊朗、冻结俄罗斯资产并强迫 TikTok 从中国母公司完成股权剥离等。新法案最快将于4月23日提交美国参议院表决。美国总统 Joe Biden 称赞众议院「将国家安全放在第一位」，承诺将在参议院表决通过后立刻签字批准新法案。 source
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Telegram is a free app and runs on donations. According to a blog on the telegram: We believe in fast and secure messaging that is also 100% free. Pavel Durov, who shares our vision, supplied Telegram with a generous donation, so we have quite enough money for the time being. If Telegram runs out, we will introduce non-essential paid options to support the infrastructure and finance developer salaries. But making profits will never be an end-goal for Telegram.
“To the extent it is used I fear it’s often for illicit finance. It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions, and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering,” the former Fed chairwoman said. Yellen’s comments have been cited as a reason for bitcoin’s recent losses. However, Yellen’s assessment of bitcoin as a inefficient medium of exchange is an important point and one that has already been raised in the past by bitcoin bulls. Using a volatile asset in exchange for goods and services makes little sense if the asset can tumble 10% in a day, or surge 80% over the course of a two months as bitcoin has done in 2021, critics argue. To put a finer point on it, over the past 12 months bitcoin has registered 8 corrections, defined as a decline from a recent peak of at least 10% but not more than 20%, and two bear markets, which are defined as falls of 20% or more, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
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