UK GDP fell by a record 9.9% in 2020, the biggest drop in 100 years. Trends in 2021 are not very optimistic. In January, the bank's Barclays division recorded a 16% decline in consumer spending, year on year. Moreover, 63% of all purchases of non-food products were made online, which is twice as much as a year earlier.

According to a survey conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses, during 2021, approximately 250,000 small businesses will have to close if the government does not provide additional targeted assistance.

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In you are not welcome somewhere being in the torn socks, then you should not go there in the whole either.

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The FSB of Russia detained two people who were preparing a military coup in Belarus and the elimination of President Alexander Lukashenko. This was reported on Saturday at the Public Relations Center (DSP) of the FSB.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (RB), as a result of a special operation, suppressed the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, who has dual citizenship of the United States and the Republic of Belarus, and Alexander Iosifovich, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, Feduta. revolutions "with the involvement of local and Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the physical elimination of President Alexander Lukashenko," the DSP stressed.

According to the FSB, Zyankovich arrived in Moscow after consultations in the United States and Poland to meet with representatives of the Belarusian Armed Forces to persuade them to participate in a military coup involving local and Ukrainian nationalists. “After documenting the meeting, the conspirators were detained by the Russian security agencies and handed over to their Belarusian partners,” the FSB said.

“The plans ware to capture the child, and if possible another one. “We'll put it in the cellar” ... By the way, in the Gomel region they have also prepared the cellar. We detained the group. They brought us, showed us how it was all planned. I was silent. Then we discovered the work of clearly foreign intelligence services - most likely the CIA. We discovered their desire to come to Minsk and start organizing an attempt on the life of the president and children, ” - Lukashenko said.

After that, Minsk contacted Moscow “so that they were in the subject,” the Belarusian president continued. The "agents" who flew in from the United States were eventually captured in Moscow, Lukashenko claims.

Lukashenko openly connects the assassination ride with the new old "top US leadership."

All as usual.

With the advent of the Chia cryptocurrency, miners in China are frantically buying up all available hard drives and SSDs. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, Chia is not mined with a processor, video card, or specialized ASIC chip. Instead, Chia processing requires storage space and therefore miners are buying up HDDs and SSDs.

Unlike Bitcoin, which is based on proof of work, Chia uses a proof of space and time model. Chia is reportedly being promoted as an environmentally friendly cryptocurrency. Bram Cohen, famous for the BitTorrent protocol, created Chia to take advantage of free space on storage devices. Hard drives and solid state drives use less power, are easier to get and cheaper to buy. For comparison, mining Ethereum or Bitcoin requires significant energy costs.

Jiahe Jinwei, one of the largest Chinese memory manufacturers, told MyDrivers that the 1TB and 2TB high-performance Gloway and Asgard NVMe M.2 SSDs have already been sold out. The manufacturer plans to impose restrictions to prevent miners from buying massive amounts of consumer SSDs.

Chia is not yet officially available for trading, so it's too early to start stocking up on hard drives or SSDs.

Also note the personalities, as firm who made Bittorrent is associated with CIA and other US agencies. Aty the time this protocol had been used to suppress very dangerous trend of fast evolving P2P protocols and software, as contrary to torrents they are much harder to find, track and block.