Among the public companies holding bitcoin, the record holder was the software developer MicroStrategy. The value of bitcoins at the disposal of the company exceeded $ 5 billion eight months after the first investment in cryptocurrency, writes Bloomberg. The growth in the value of cryptocurrencies is fueled by news about their purchase by the largest companies - from Tesla to Square, but few have been as lucky as MicroStrategy, writes Bloomberg.

The excitement around the voice social network Clubhouse has been sleeping noticeably in recent weeks, and the growth of the Russian -speaking community of the application slowed down. How many users managed to attract the project, what prevents him from developing and what kind of stage he is experiencing-a systemic crisis or temporary stagnation before a new jerk, in a column for The Bell is analyzed by the head of the Out Digital, Roman Zaripov.

In the European Union, a crisis began around the supply of vaccines from coronavirus. Due to reports on the development of thrombosis after the injection of ASTRAZENECA and failures in supply at vaccination pace, Europeans are three times behind the Americans. What's happened At least 10 countries, including Italy and Norway, suspended vaccination with ASTRAZENECA after Austria and Denmark expressed concern about possible negative side effects of two batches of vaccines.

The number of patients with coronavirus in Moscow has exceeded one million people - the total number of cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic has amounted to 1,000,394, the operational headquarters reported. in Moscow have been registered Over the past 24 hours , 1905 new cases - this is the maximum number of infections since March 4. During the day, 55 people died from COVID-19. The total death toll since the start of the pandemic has been 15,764.

The Omani authorities blocked the Clubhouse application - according to the laws of the country, it had to receive special registration. The Omani Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has announced that the Clubhouse is now blocked in the country. “The application has been stopped due to lack of registration in Oman. <...> All communication applications using audio and video communication over the Internet must obtain a registration certificate from the department.

The owners of cafes and restaurants have already warned about the increase in prices for food due to increased food prices. Establishments have already started saving on napkins. As Mikhail Goncharov, the founder of Teremka, told RBC, the cafe chain is preparing to revise the prices for its dishes due to rising food prices. On average, the price of a dish will increase by 1-2 rubles, he says. The founder of the Meat & Fish restaurants, Sergei Mironov, agrees with this need.

With the growth of life expectancy, people remain active longer, and the “threshold of old age” shifts. The traditional indicators of the aging of the population do not take this into account, which gives an incomplete picture of the influence of this process on the economy and social sphere, economists warn. Our colleagues from the econs.online publication publish an article by Russian scientists Gayan Safarova , Natalia Kalmykova and Anna Safarova , who studied how Moscow and St.

The main IPO of the week is the placement of the RobLox game platform on the New York Exchange, for the year of the pandemic almost doubled the number of users, most of which are from 9 to 12 years old, and almost tripled revenue. The company's assessment exceeded $ 45 billion - this is more than ten times more than a year ago. But in the history of one of the hottest placements of the year, not everything is as rosy as it looks at first glance.

This week, Vladimir Putin gathered six dozen oligarchs to give them a lecture on the world instability and benefits of investment in Russia - and at the same meeting, Obraztsovo exposed this idea on the example of agribusiness, on which they impose one restriction after another in the struggle against the growth of food prices.

The detentions of participants in the forum of independent deputies were supervised not by ordinary Moscow police, but by the FSB, RBC writes , citing sources in the mayor's office. The publication explains that it was a "frightening action" before the elections to the State Duma. According to RBC, the decision to “disperse the forum” at the Izmailovo Hotel on Saturday, March 13, was made not by the local, but by the federal authorities – the FSB oversaw the detentions.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken condemned the detentions of participants in the Municipal Russia Forum in Moscow. He called it "harassment of independent voices". Anthony Blinken US Secretary of State Today, Russian authorities have detained almost 200 municipal leaders and politicians on dubious grounds, including activists Vladimir Kara-Murza and Yulia Galyamina. We call for an end to the persecution of independent voices.