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Hey everybody, it's another episode of this week in Startups.

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This is the moment where you click in your podcast player.

And yes, the boys are with us back again, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from acquired FM.

The other podcast you love so much, we're going to chop up the news and right up top.

I guess the big news of the day is that Bitcoin has plunded 50% over the last two weeks or so.

I guess primarily because there is going to be some sort of a

crackdown maybe over environmental concerns or communism.

We've heard this saber rattling before. China's made an announcement about

banning crypto again and proposing new penalties for crypto mining in their inner Mongolia region,

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