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Pebble to landslide, Bitcoin is approaching agriculture and its impact will be seismic, echoing the benchmarks of farming history, including cotton gin, steel plow, mechanization, and biotech crops.

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Banking associations, including those in the city of Shanghai, as well as Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, have launched measures to curb "involution-style" competition, targeting ...

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