The Indian government has developed a bill that will completely ban cryptocurrencies in the country.

Storage, release, mining, trading and transfer will face a fine or criminal liability. At the same time, citizens will be given six months to get rid of cryptocurrency assets. If the bill is passed, India will become the first major economy to completely ban cryptocurrencies.

Of course, Indian government do this not because they love you. Main reasons are ability to avoid taxes and big energy consumption.

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) is commonly used for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Aspirin use is associated with better outcomes among COVID‐19 positive patients. We hypothesized that aspirin use for primary cardiovascular disease prevention might have a protective effect on COVID‐19 susceptibility and disease duration. We conducted a retrospective population‐based cross‐sectional study, utilizing data from the Leumit Health Services database. The proportion of patients treated with aspirin was significantly lower among the COVID‐19‐positive group, as compared to the COVID‐19‐negative group (73 (11.03 %) vs. 1548 (15.77%); p=0.001). Aspirin use was associated with lower likelihood of COVID‐19 infection, as compared to non‐users (adjusted OR 0.71 (95% CI, 0.52 to 0.99; p=0.041). Aspirin users were older (68.06 ± 12.79 vs. 56.63 ± 12.28 years of age; p<0.001), presented a lower BMI (28.77±5.4 vs. 30.37±4.55; p<0.0189) and showed higher prevalence of hypertension (56, 76.71%), diabetes (47, 64.38%) and COPD (11, 15.07%) than showed the aspirin non‐users (151, 25.64%, p<0.001; 130, 22.07%, p<0.001; and 43, 7.3%, p=0.023, respectively). Moreover, COVID‐19 disease duration (considered as the time between the first positive and second negative COVID‐19 RT‐PCR test results) among aspirin users was significantly shorter, as compared to aspirin non‐users (19.8±7.8 vs. 21.9± 7.9 p= 0.045). Among hospitalized COVID‐positive patients, a higher proportion of surviving subjects were treated with aspirin (20, 19.05%), as opposed to 1 dead subject (14.29%), although this difference was not significant (p=0.449). In conclusion, we observed inverse association between the likelihood of COVID‐19 infection, disease duration and mortality and aspirin use for primary prevention.

https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.15784

En Russie le gouvernement est un despotisme mitigé par la strangulation.

in english

In Russia the government is a despotism mitigated by strangulation.

Pushkin.

A US federal court on Friday temporarily suspended a ban on investment and cooperation with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi.

In January, under previous President Donald Trump, the Pentagon blacklisted Xiaomi and eight other Chinese companies. According to the American authorities, they are controlled or cooperate with the military-industrial complex and the PRC intelligence services. The sanctions included a ban on any financial transactions by citizens and companies from the United States. In addition, American individuals and legal entities had to sell their shares in Xiaomi by a certain date.

The Chinese company then went to court in Washington, DC, claiming that the blacklisting was unconstitutional and that the US authorities did not provide any evidence of Xiaomi's involvement with the intelligence services.

Small pause before new rounds of conflict.