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It is June 21st of 2021 and I am back.

Yep, this is Alex after a nice week off.

I learned how to kayak and even took a couple of naps. So if I owe you an

email or a DM, sorry about that, but I needed to recharge. It's good to be here.

To start this week, the cryptocurrency markets are having a hard time due to geopolitical issues, and American stocks are set to rise at the open despite declines in Asian stocks and a generally mixed European trading day.

Also, remember that we are recording Equity

live this week on June 24th at 2 PM Pacific Time,

which is 5 PM Eastern or 9 PM GMT. It's a free show, so please show up and heckle us as we try to bring that old

live show energy to the virtual world. There is a link to register in today's show notes.

If people like this and it's a good time and all that, we'll do more of these here and there.

Of course it's more fun to show about disrupt and do it in person and see everybody but this is the

next best thing and frankly I think it's going to be a blast. Now the big story this weekend in tech was the shuttering of cryptocurrency mining operations in China.

The short gist of the story is that the Chinese province of

Sichuan told power companies to stop providing juice to

crypto mining operations and sans electricity. Of course you can't run

computers that then mine Bitcoin souch, it's bad.

China has long been a hub for cryptocurrency mining

due in part to excess electricity in some regions,

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